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 fewer questions and I am receiving far more completed work! Awesome.

Hyperdocs and Hyperslides are pretty easy to create, they just take a little time and creativity. I teach middle schoolers so I like to make mine visually appealing with lots of images and gifs! I also design mine as a gameboard (or something similar.) There are lots of examples you can find online as inspiration.

Here are a few examples of slides I created for my most recent units in my Geography and World Cultures class and my United States History Class.

Check out my Intro to the Middle Ages Interactive Slides! Click here (TpT link)

Check out my Women's History Interactive Slides! Click HERE! (TpT link)

Interested in learning how I make my hyperslides? I made a short video tutorial explaining some of the basics!

Click here to see how I use this Italian Renaissance Art HyperSlide with my students.

What online activities do your students like best? I would love to hear from you!

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