Tech Talk with Audrey

Am I the only one that remembers those "choose your own adventure" books?  I remember reading them over and over again so that I could see what would happen with every possible scenario.  I recently learned that the "choose your own adventure" format is a great way to create engaging, interactive lessons for your students.  You could use this to design your own educational games, teach students while comparing and contrasting different topics, and create many different types of review assignments that give students immediate feedback.  The "choose your own adventure" format is also a great way to allow students to work at their own pace and develop their self-directed learning skills.  You can use Google Forms to create these online for your students.  When you start creating a "choose your own adventure" assignment, it is a great idea to outline each of your questions, the responses for each, and how you plan to connect them to previous question

One of the easiest ways for us to share content and information with students when we are online is through video, whether it be something we found on YouTube or a presentation we have recorded.  Videos are great because they can house all of the content we would normally share with students in the classroom and can easily be shared by emailing students a link or posted it in Google Classroom.  One of the downsides of watching videos is that it can be a passive learning experience if students are not being asked to interact with the material being presented.  We can give students a worksheet to complete, but that still does not make the video very interactive for students.  This post will look at three different tools you can use to make interactive videos for your students.  This means that they will be able to interact with the material as they are watching the videos which can help students engage with the material and will hold the students accountable for actually watching and com