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HyperDocs + Gen-Z Media Collaboration

Check out this very exciting new collaboration we’ve been working on! At this point in the school year, you know your students and you have covered a lot of content. It is time to nurture new skills like listening comprehension, foster a love of storytelling, and inspire some good ol’ creativity. You can do it all simultaneously with gzmclassroom.com. We have recently worked with an incredible organization, Gen-Z Media. This company has produced several award-winning podcasts tha...

Back to School Wishes (and some freebies!)

OUR ONE-WORD WISHES Each calendar year we each select a word to ground ourselves throughout the year. Our One Word HyperDoc (bit.ly/onewordhd) has been used far and wide -- it’s a favorite! This lesson can be used at the start of the school year, or at the start of a new calendar year. This particular school year we want to share a wish for you all that is based on our own 2022 words. And of course we each included a HyperDoc to align with our one word wish! Our wishes and HyperDoc less...

HyperDocs at Adobe Education Summit

CREATIVITY FOR ALL! That means students, teachers and administrators too! Why creativity for all? Because creativity brings joy. And if there is one thing that we all need after the last few years as educators is a little extra joy in our lives. So for some creativity inspiration, HyperDocs is partnering with the original creative EdTech tool -- Adobe. We love teaming up with Adobe because creativity is at the heart of their mission and product. One of our goals within our HyperDocs communit...

A Reflection in 3-2-1 from the 2022 ISTE Conference

How do you synthesize learning? What helps you to connect new learning with prior knowledge? One way you can reflect and synthesize is with a simple 3-2-1 strategy. Check out our very own ISTE 3-2-1 Reflection to catch some highlights … 3 of our EdTech favorites, 2 new things we discovered, and 1 big idea! BOOK CREATOR continues to be a go-to for student publishing! The creative opportunities for students of all ages - from primary t...

Summer School HyperDocs: Sticky Lessons for Tricky Content

If you are supporting students to teach and reteach key concepts this summer might you try HyperDocs? HyperDocs are engaging digital lesson plans that you can design and deliver to break up any traditional lesson planning you might be delivering. If you are expected to use a particular curriculum, why not mix things up and use HyperDocs to make concepts stick in unique and memorable ways? Reading Intervention for Emerging Readers (K-3) Young readers develop skills at a rapid pace -- from u...

Earth Day Ideas and Features: Balance Consumption with Creation

CONSUMPTION LEARNING: New Content about the Earth You can invite students to consume, or ‘take in,’ new content about the Earth by packaging the resources nicely on a Multimedia Text Set. Check out the consumption experience on this sample text set. Ask, how will packaging all of your links in this way change the consumption experience for students? How much time will you give learners to click around? Which resources will spark their interest best? What will you do while stud...

What is My Teaching Legacy?

I work with new teachers in TK-12th grade, and I encourage each teacher to find their own voice as an educator. But sometimes with the overwhelm of lesson planning, assessing learners, entering grades, completing report cards, responding to emails, and such we often lose our own sense of self. This is such a great time of year to pause and wonder how to spend the rest of the school calendar. With the final trimester or quarter upon us, I urge you to hit PAUSE and think about yourself and your te...

SEL day 2022

EXPLORE When is SEL day? This Friday, March 11, 2022. Learn more and sign up to participate at selday.org. What are the CASEL core competencies? These interrelated key areas will help integrate social emotional learning into individual lives and within communities. Learn more at casel.org LEARN TWO WAYS TO INTEGRATE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING INTO YOUR LESSON DESIGN. Explicit. Reach the hearts and minds of your learners with direct instruction that focuses on social emotional learn...

HyperDocs Give Back Challenge

Tis the season for giving … and giving back! But what if you don’t feel like you have time? Or you are nervous to share for the first time? We believe in giving and sharing all sorts of ways! Maybe you have an awesome resource that needs to become a digital lesson plan, or maybe you just tried something and want to tell others about it! If you are ready and willing to share your great classroom stories, ideas, and HyperDoc lessons, we encourage you to join our December Give Back Cha...

7 Free HyperDocs Workshops from the Adobe for Education Summit 2021

We were honored to partner with Adobe in July of 2021 to super-charge the annual Adobe for Education Summit hosted as a live, virtual event free to all participants. HyperDocs are where creativity meets pedagogy and thanks to the amazing tools Adobe makes for students, it has never been easier to infuse your lessons with innovation at every layer. Here you will find 7 Free HyperDocs sessions from the summit that cover topics like HyperDocs basics, equity and inclusion, and digital lesson desi...