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Multi-Media Text Sets
Multi-Media Text Sets
How do you cohesively organize amazing media into one place for your students to access?
Lisa Highfill, a Bay Area educator, finally figured out an outstanding way to, very simply, create a document for students to use. She calls them Multi-Media Text Sets (Hyper Docs) and it is is one page document with a two column table.
Listed in the first column are places on the Internet you want your students to visit, read, analyze, watch, etc.
Listed in the second column is the activity you want your students to do with each media resource.
Source from GTEC Lisa Highfill Document
Take a look at the image on the right. It is a lesson adapted from Lisa's Avalanche lesson on her larger unit: Earth in Action. You can see a YouTube video is listed first - this is a purposeful step. My igniting excitement about the topic (done here through a video showing skiers and snowboarders caught in avalanches- it shows no one getting hurt) you can create an initial engagement with the topic.
Activity:
- Make a copy of the Google Doc. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LmMveSFXNPDE25aLGssuBr1iKHT3HGtyewDb7wf0bb4/copy
- Change the title and image to fit your unit.
- Change the media to go to various places you want your students to go.
- Change the tasks on the right to the activities you want your students to do with each piece of media.
- Note: The more "tasks" you give them, the more grading of different documents you will have. If you notice the actual column header it says "I learned/Makes me think:" sometimes a simple reflection in the box itself is plenty.
- Share your new set through Google Classroom or with your students as "View Only" in Google docs and ask them to FILE > Make a Copy.
Another Example
Tech Tools for the English Class Multi Media Text Set (MMTS)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fu_UUIkknhhT20wwIbG92mHhMSC2cB5nMDOM7KwhNGA/edit
Game Board
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M9KTSD9rG0U81T3OeDyYPTKOtqqsaaLcX-P1-Edz45A/edit?usp=sharing
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