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Interactive Google Slides and Distance Learning

Like most educators in recent weeks, I am sure many of you are scrambling to put together user-friendly, engaging, meaningful lessons for your students. I've spent so much time at my computer converting old lessons to digital versions that I think I am developing both carpal tunnel and "tennis elbow!" Now that we are four weeks into remote learning, I am discovering what works and what doesn't work for my students. I am fortunate that my students are well-acquainted with Google Classroom. We have been using the Google suite of tools since the beginning of the school year. My students get flustered when there are too many posts in Google Classroom. So, to keep posts to a minimum, I have been creating and using a lot of hyperdocs and hyperslides. I can post a week (or more) worth of lessons, activities, and assessments in one doc or slide. Since I switched from posting multiple assignments in the Google Classroom to one post (a hyperdoc or slide), I am receiving far f...