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Your End-of-Year Tech List: Closing Out Your Digital Classroom

Your End-of-Year Tech List:
Closing Out Your Digital Classroom

Just as you close out your physical classroom for the year, you should also close out your digital classroom. To help you do so, we have created the following Tech List, with helpful links and hints.

✔ Task Tips Helpful Links
Google Classrooms Archive your Google classrooms to prevent students from unmonitored posting. If you delete a class, you no longer have access to posts or its associated resources. Written Video
Edmodo Classrooms Archive your Edmodo classrooms to prevent students from unmonitored posting. If you delete a class, you no longer have access to posts or its associated resources. Directions

Re-Situating Hapara

Best Practices for Supporting Students Working in the Digital Realm When you hear people talking about “Hapara,” what comes to mind? Is it “that website that works with G Suite?” Perhaps it’s “that tool that lets you close student browser tabs.” If you are not familiar with all of what Hapara can do, it can be easy to get caught up in Hapara's administrative features and use it just to police student chromebook activity. In this post, we’ll “re-situate” Hapara so that you will be better equipped to support learners working with tools in G Suite and beyond.
Why Hapara?
You may have read or heard about the research of John Hattie, a Professor of Education at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Hattie synthesized a wealth of existing studies to determine the most impactful ways to raise student achievement. The top five strategies include: student visible learning, formative assessment, acceleration, feedback, and other metacognitive strategies. Hapara was created wit…

Link directly to Google Classroom Assignments and Question Activities

One of several new features in Google Classroom is the ability to link Google Classroom announcements, assignments, or question activities directly into a presentation, doc, HyperDoc activity, or any other media that can include web links. Why use this in your instructional practice? Efficient, saves time! Less clicking! No scrolling or filtering to find the activity in Google Classroom! Post a Google Classroom assignment link in a Synergy grade book assignment! (helps students to find the assignment easily). How does this enhance teaching and learning? Students can go directly to the Question activity as part of a lesson that includes facilitating an online discussion, back-channel, or poll (active participation). As part of a learning activity include a direct link to an assignment in Classroom, where students can add their choice of created products (student engagement / voice & choice). This makes it easy to have student work in one place and allows for timely feedback. Differ…

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