Playlist Templates and Examples

"When teachers consistently offer assignments that include choice in content,
product or process, students will find the learning ownership needed to stay
engaged and achieve at high levels." Teachers urged to instill Assignments with
Choice and Relevancy

Playlists are a great opportunity to empower and engage students! As promised
during last week’s tech tip, here are some templates and examples to help you
design a playlist for your classroom.

Learning Goal & Scale Template

Bulleted List Template

Tables Template , Example: Staff PD

HyperDocs Templates and Examples

Important Note: To turn these into more of a true playlist, be sure to include voice & choice options
within these categories (include “must do” and “may do” options).

Teachers Give Teachers HyperDocs

Swap Hyperdocs with others (free)

Slides with Sticky Notes Template

Gameboard Template 1 (See links on site) Template 2

Bingo Boards Template: Sheets, Template: Docs, Template: Slides

Schoology & Seesaw Activities

Both Seesaw (E-2) and Schoology (3-12) can be used to share these playlists with students
and to collect evidence of their learning.

An Introduction to the Playlist Model

An Introduction to Blended Learning Playlist Model

In the playlist model, students work through a series of tasks to reach their
learning targets. Typically, students are given choices and can work at their
own pace (though deadlines exist). In gold standard playlists, each student
has an individualized list of tasks aligned to individual needs and abilities.

A key criteria for playlists is that it gives students voice and choice in their
learning while still ensuring they meet their learning objectives. In essence
it’s having tasks with “Must Do’s -- May Do’s.”

In a blended learning playlist, at least part needs to be completed online or
digitally and part offline or analog.

Does it ensure students achieve the learning objectives?

• Does it align to the learning targets outlined in the Learning Goal & Scale? (chunking, scaffolding)
• Does it give students various options for acquiring the learning: Reading/Listening/Viewing?
• Does it give students multiple means in which to practice/process their learning?
• Does it give students multiple modes in which to demonstrate their learning?
• Does it give students opportunities to receive real time feedback and opportunities to reflect on their learning?

Is it student centered?

• Does it give student control & ownership by providing voice & choice? (“Must Do” and “May Do” options)
• Does it engage and empower the learner?

Does it support differentiation?

• Does it give students control over Pace, Path, Place, Time?
• Does it support student enrichment and remediation?
• Does it support lower and higher order thinking? (Marzano Taxonomy | DOK 1-4)
• Does it support various learning styles & intelligences?  (Gardners’ Multiple Intelligences)

Does it develop 21st century skills (4 Cs)?

Do students have opportunity for

• Creativity,
• Critical Thinking,
• Communication, and
• Collaboration?

Does the design follow the KISS principle? Keep It Super Simple

• Concise directions
• Clear layout & path
• Consistent visual cues 
• Appealing: color, graphics, multimedia, etc.

Flipped Learning: Tips for Effective Implementation

Flipped Learning: Tips for Effective Implementation Here are some tips to help make the implementation of flipped learning more effective:
Strategies to increase student engagement
	Students not completing homework has always been a challenge. The following strategies can help ensure students complete their assignments, including watching the videos, at home or in class: Set Expectations: Clearly communicate your expectations for students to watch the videos. Remember that students may be unfamiliar with this model of learning and need to be taught how to succeed. Consistently reinforce expectations. Accountability: Communicate the learning objectives for the video assignment. Provide opportunities for a quick, formative assessment that provides students feedback on their learning and holds them accountable to their assignment. Assign a grade and/or require students to watch the video in-class if not done before class. Do not bail students out if they do not meet set expectations. Recruit Parental Support: Share with parents the rationale for flipped learning and garner their support. Call home if their child isn’t watching the videos. Relationships Matter: Connect individually with students who don’t watch the videos to discuss importance of completing assignments and to identify any potential barriers for the student. Design Strong Lessons: Strong, relevant and engaging lessons have always been the best form of classroom management. The same is true in the flipped learning model. Select and/or create concise and engaging videos (see video for tips). Connect the learning from the video back to in-class learning experiences. Design the in-class learning so that it is relevant, highly engaging and fosters higher order thinking, including the 4 Cs (creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication).  The in-class learning should include active learning with peers and opportunities for students to connect with you too. Fostering relationships is key! Note:  If the in-class activity is highly engaging, students won’t want to miss out by having to sit and watch the video first. They will quickly learn to complete video assignments in order to engage in the fun learning with their peers.
Teach students how to watch flipped videos
WSQ = Watch + Summarize + Question	“Watching an instructional video is different than watching a video for entertainment.” It is essential to teach students the skills for watching videos for learning. The WSQ strategy can help engage students as well as help them process their new learning: Watch: Require students to take guided notes while watching the video. Encourage students to use the pause/rewind buttons. Summarize: After watching the video, have students write a summary of what they learned. This helps retention and academic language development. Provide guiding questions, sentence starters or sentence frames as needed. Question: Encourage student curiosity. Require students to ask a relevant, higher order thinking question that they have about the content. Use these questions during in-class or online discussions.
Tech Tools to Support Engagement & WSQ
EdPuzzle is a free online tool that allows you to embed stop points and questions into videos/screencasts to increase accountability and to provide formative feedback/analytics. You can also disable the option of skipping ahead in a video.
With VideoNote.es, all student notes are synchronized with the video with the notes saved in their Google Drive. Students can then reference their notes and quickly rewatch related snips from the video.
Embed the video into a Schoology assessment where students can respond to questions related to the video content (M/C, essay, T/F, etc).
Embed the video into a Schoology discussion where students can ask their questions as well as respond to each others’ questions.
Seesaw Activities: Include the videos in the Seesaw Activities and have students use Seesaw tools to creatively process and communicate their learning.

Source:

Flipping the Learning by Jonathan Bergmann

Resources to Support Flipped Learning

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Resources to Support Flipped Learning

Following are some tools and resources to support Flipped Learning in your classroom:

SCREENCASTING

Screencasting is the process of recording your computer screen while adding your own voice narration to it. Screencasting has become increasingly popular due to the growing availability of free recording tools as well as the integration of flipped classroom instruction strategies. See this video for tips on how to record an effective screencast.   

Screencast-O-Matic is arguably the best free screencasting program for use on a PC or Mac computer. The free version allows you to record up to 15 minute videos which can be uploaded to YouTube or downloaded to your computer. Editing is limited to trimming the beginning and ending portions of your video. To learn more, see this Video Tutorial 

Screencastify allows you to record a screencast on a Chromebook. Screencastify is a Chrome extension that will work on a PC or Mac as well as long as you are using Google Chrome as your browser. While Screencastify is more limiting than Screencast-O-Matic, it has some nice annotation tools and is ideal for having your students create screencasts. Screencastify is free. See video tutorial to learn more.

Note: There is an OnDemand course available to support your learning about these screencasting tools.

RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

You don't have to always create your own videos. You are all familiar with YouTube as a source for free videos. However, there are some other excellent sources available to you, and many contain only educational or high quality content. Here are a few to check out.

• http://www.schooltube.com/
• Mainly videos
• http://www.watchknowlearn.org/
• Videos searchable by subject, common core standard, grade level, etc.
• http://www.teachertube.com/
• Video, audio, docs, collections, playlists, etc.
• http://www.mnvideovault.org/
• Twin Cities PBS video archives.
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Math, and much more! Create classrooms and track progress.

• https://ed.ted.com
• The TED Student Talks Program supports students as they discover, explore and present their big ideas in the form of short, TED-style talks.

Share your favorite sources for educational videos in this Answer Garden.

EDPUZZLE

EdPuzzle allows you to hold viewers more accountable to the screencasts or videos they watch. This is ideal for flipped classroom lessons. By using EdPuzzle, you can embed questions directly into the videos, requiring students to answer before they can move on. You can also prevent students from skipping ahead in the video, thus requiring them to watch the entire video. The teacher admin console give you access to analytics, including which students watched the video and how they performed on the embedded questions.

• Overview Video
• Tutorial Video

Note: There is an OnDemand course available to support your learning of EdPuzzle.

SEESAW: Adding Videos to Activities

You can embed your videos directly into a Seesaw Activity.

Note: There are two OnDemand courses available to support your learning of flipping using Seesaw:

SCHOOLOGY: Adding Videos to Activities

You can include your videos and those you find into Schoology pages, assignments, discussions and assessments. 

Note:  There are two Schoology OnDemand courses available to support your learning of adding video and other content in Schoology.

BONUS RESOURCES:

#1: http://safeyoutube.net/

• Paste in a Youtube or Vimeo video address to show w/o advertisements, suggested videos or comments appearing.

#2: Create a QR code or post a link.

• Create a QR code that takes students directly to the video or post a web link into Schoology or Seesaw for easy access by students.

#3: Create Captioned Flipped Videos with Google Slides

• This is a new feature released in Slides this past month.

#4: Adding Captions to YouTube Videos

        You can also add captions to your YouTube Videos.