Tech Talk with Audrey

  When we are working online with students in a digital or hybrid setting, we want to make sure that lessons are as engaging as possible to ensure that students are paying attention and learning.  A great way to do this is by creating interactive slide decks for students to work with.  We can make these kinds of presentations by linking different slides together so that students can interact with the presentation while they work through it.  If you want to know more about linking images, slides, and other media in a slide deck, check out the post Two Ways to Have Interactive Images in Your Lessons .  1. Formative Assessments and Practice Problems Using the branching method, we can create slides that link to each other based on a student's response to a question.  If we provide students with a multiple choice answer, we can set up a link that takes them to a new slide for their specific answer.  This is great for practice and formative assessments becau...

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 a...