Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Laurie in Stickler, Project manager
Technology and instruction. I'm here today to show
you how Thio
integrate near pod in your pod lesson that you've chosen and
saved into your near pod library How to integrate that lesson into
canvas so that you can use it with your students. So let's
go ahead and get started. So, as I said, the first step
was thio search in the near pod lesson
library and find a lesson that you liked. You know, maybe you
searched by keyword
and you came up with some lessons that, you know,
looked like they were around the grade level that you wanted. Or maybe you also
search by keyword and grade level, and you
found a lesson that you thought you liked. You clicked
preview from that search,
you previewed the lesson to see if there's anything of interest there for
you. And if you something that you think you liked, then you went ahead
and you added it to your library. When you do that, you get the lesson
successfully added, you can go back to your lesson library
and you can look and you can find that lesson
available inside your library. It's right here for
me, right? So that's the first step. So the first thing you want to do is you want to
have the lesson available for you inside
of your library. And then the next thing that you want to do is you
want to edit that lesson because the prerequisite
for getting the the lesson connected, be a
canvas and, um, giving it to your students
through the external tool between near potting
canvases that you have to have that lesson perfect. You can't add the
lesson in canvas and then edit because it will break the the
connection, and then it will require a different code. So the again what you want to
do is you want to have the lesson in your library and you want to edit that lesson.
So I've actually started to edit a lesson here. Careers in our community.
So I want to show you a couple of different features regarding how to edit. So the
first thing that you dio after you have it into your library. What you do is you click
on the Edit Key here for the edit
button. The lesson will come up in a
slide sorter fashion. If you're someone who's this power point a lot or
have used power point in the past, this probably looks fairly familiar to you
because you are able to, you know, grab
slides, moving them around, change their position. You can delete slides,
you can add slides, that kind of thing. So let's talk about first of all,
different things that can be added to presentation slides.
In particular, this happens to be ah, K through two lessons on
careers in our community. So what I did waas. I came into
here and I, you know, made the first slide big, and I thought about
a first grader. I thought about a first grader using this lesson
independently inside a campus as a student pace. And I thought,
you know, maybe I need to give some extra support to
my my young readers and record my voice
over the slide. So when the student click,
you're not gonna be able to hear it because of the act that I'm actually using, you
know, a webinar thio to teach you. So
it's it's recognizing my microphone over
the the audio on the slide, but
trust me when I tell you that my voice is here
recording this slide, right? So So what I did is I added
audio and then I save and exit. So I'm going to do that for you
now, just as an example. So you can see how incredibly
easy it is. And you can see the near pot is saving the slide now. Right? So let's
take a look at the essential question slide. So I double click to get it
large. And the only thing I have to dio is
I clicked down here for audio. And if I have an audio file
that I previously recorded, I could choose that and upload the file there. But
I don't have what I'm just simply going to use their audio recorder right here. So I
click on their audio recorder. When I'm ready, I start
recording. Well, actually, right now you can see that I'm
recording over the slide. Obviously, I'm not ready. I'm not
saying what's on the slide. It's no, I'm not giving direction. It's not making any sense. So
let me stop it. If I were to listen to that, it would just be me
talking to you, right? So it's not something that I actually want to
keep. I'm going to go ahead and trash it, and I'm going to start over. So that's how
easy it is for you to record audio. You just simply
hit the audio. Hit the audio record option.
You get yourself ready to read the slide or
thio offer directions over the slide to the students,
and you do it. Essential question. How can
I be prepared for life after high school?
When I'm finished, I stop it. I can listen to it. And then
if I like it, I can click safe
as soon as it finishes. Uploading depends on how big it is, how long it
takes. I click, save and exit, and you can very
easily see that now there's a little bit of audio on that
side. So again, one more time learning objectives.
Normally I would give these objectives to my students verbally in class,
right? So I'm going to click audio, I'm going to click
audio recorder, and I'm going to read the learning
objective learning objectives.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to give examples of three
occupations in your community and explain why jobs are
important. There's my audio.
I click, Save it. Uploads
takes a moment. I click, save and exit on. I'm in good
shape. It is finished in regard to audio. So that's how
easy it is for you to add audio
Thio a lesson in your plan so you can
actually give your students you know some really good
support in helping them to be successful
at a distance. You can also choose to add some slides and your slide
options are you have content, so if you click content, you can
choose from a variety of opportunities.
You have a slide show. You have a video, you have a sway BBC
video. So these are all the different integrations that you have
available for you inside near. But you can also
choose to add Web content. So if you have a website that you like,
you simply have the right.
The u R L saved. You contest the link by doing that. If you
like that slide, you click save and it's done. And just like
in canvas. Anytime you add a new module in canvas, you may be
aware the module goes to the bottom
of the module list, right? So any time you
add a slide in near pod, it also goes to
the bottom. And if you want to preview that side, you could just click on it,
take a premium. You'll notice that it is taking me to the
Broward Schools website. The student would see this. The student would
click on it to open the Web page, and it would take them there. So that's how
easy it is to add a Web content slide or a website. So I don't
want this necessarily in this presentation. So I'm
going to go ahead and delete the slide. And that, my
friends, is how easy it is to delete a slide in, uh,
near pot as well. So when you're adding
side, you can add, as we said, a content slide, you can add a
website. You can also add different activities thes air, the activities
that are available for students. Thio
give you some input as to as to
how they're grasping the concept right so you can see what
kind of learning is taking place. Do they have mastery over a
topic by getting some formative data from them, so we have a time to
climb. Time to climb is a game of fight, approach, toe learning. And I'm going
to show you that in a few minutes I have one already embedded
in the slide in a near pod lesson, so I'll show you the time to climb a little
bit later. We have an open ended question matching
pairs Quiz. Flip grid is also able to be
integrated. Draw it collaborate poll, fill in the blanks and memory,
test these air all of the different options that you can choose
to add to your, uh, already created
near pod lesson. So let's say that I'm going to add a poll. So when I click
poll, you'll see the slide comes up. I can ask my
question, um, here and then once I type my
question, I have my answer Options. A poll happens to be
an opinion, so you don't have a right or wrong answer.
There. You can see where I can add media. I can add videos. I
can add audio. I can add pictures here. I can also add a
timer. If this were a live lesson where I have my students do
this and they have been, you know, a certain amount of time to answer, so you can add you can add all of those things. I
could also add more than than two answers if I want to add an additional answer. So
this is a really great slide that you can use a really great example of how
you can get some data from your students. I'm choosing not to
add that slide at the moment anyway, As I was saying
so if you're adding slides, this is exactly how you do it. You just add the
slide. Whatever slide you add comes to the bottom,
and then you can move it around anywhere you want and again.
Also, just as we covered earlier. You can add audio
to your slides if you want to give your students certain directions. Or
maybe you want to give them that support of reading the slide. If you
feel like your students, um, you know may have may have some
frustration in regard to that. So when you're finished editing your
lesson, you're going to make sure that you save and
exit And remember, as I said before, when you're getting
yourself ready to bring in your near
pod lesson into your canvas course, you want to make
sure that you have that lesson edited perfectly
so that it's ready to go with your students. All right, so
let's go into canvas and let's take a look at
a lesson that I've created to go with a
goods and services unit. I waas
poking around in the canvas comments earlier, and I
found a good in services social studies unit that was published
by Elementary Learning. Have some really great
lessons here for students. I liked it a lot.
I knew that this first lesson, especially this
lesson Waas designed so that my students would
read this book. It's a it's a pdf. They would read the book, and then they would answer
these two questions, and I thought that was a really great lessons. So,
knowing my students thinking about you know, the the independent
needs or the individual needs of my students, I thought, Well, I
don't know if my students were quite ready for that. So what I did was I went to new your
pod and I thought, I think that I need
to give them some background knowledge. So
I searched in near pod for goods and services. I
found a matching activity with vocabulary that I thought was pretty good.
Um, I found some grades six through 12. That was a little too high, right,
Because I'm dealing with first graders at the moment. So then I found this lesson
by, um, this teacher here, and it was, ah,
lesson about goods and services and what this teacher did.
Waas. I like how she gave them
information. And then she
asked them, you know, Thio to respond in
some way. So she talked about making money, and then she asked them,
you know, guided question to kind of open up and get them thinking about it. What are
some jobs that people do to make money and then she goes into
goods and then she, you know, asks them to give
some examples of good. I thought this was a really appropriate lesson for
building the background knowledge for my students, especially that they
had some really good quality slides on exactly what goods were in
services were right. So I like that and I decided to
bring it into my library. I have it here.
I edited it so that I added the audio. You can see
the little when I hover off of it. You can see the audio is added
there. So I added the audio. I, um,
removed a couple slides. I added a time to climb.
I I just made it a really good lesson. So let me show you that lesson,
and I'm going to show you from the student perspective because
I'm super interested in helping you to understand the type of
reporting that is possible in near pot and the type of
information that you can get from students, especially when you
use the external tool with canvas to connect canvas and
near pot together. It's something that's incredibly useful, Um, that you
can use with your students. So let me go ahead and go to the home page.
I'm going to go into student view, so I'm going to act. As you can see,
I'm acting as a test student and I'm going to log
into the goods and services lesson.
So see the directions that I have here. Join this near pod
lesson. Don't forget to click the blue submit button when it appears on the screen, so
I'm going to go ahead and join the session. If I were
thio this, hear my voice reading
the title off the slide, I'm going to go ahead and go
forward. So obviously I would be reading the objectives for the students, right?
Um, making money. And then we have the open ended
questions. So what I'm going to do is to act as a student right
now. And I'm going to answer the question, and I want you to
just remember what I'm writing because I'm going to show you the report when we're
finished. So on this slide, the question is, what are some jobs that
people do to make money? You can see that I've added. When I was
editing the slide, I added the ability for students to record their own audio if
they wanted to record their voice rather than typing it. If you click on
here, it opens up in up in a screen
reader, and it actually reads the question to the students. So if the
student needs some support on that, so
let me go ahead. So there some jobs that
people do make money. Let's say teacher
chef.
Mm. Taxi
driver. So remember the
direction up here. Click the blue submit button when it appears on the screen so the student would
answer, click submit. It goes to the next slide. Automatically.
The student goes through here, draw a picture of three different
goods. So they pick up the pen, they choose their color, they
draw good number one. Good number two
and good number three. Once they're finished, they click
submit. They moved to the next slide. So again,
near pot is gathering all of the data that the student is giving
through their interaction, and they're going to bring it into a
report for you. The teacher to great. All right, so this
is the time to climb. This is a game of hide approach, Thio. I'm
learning. It's I'm gonna liken it to
Kohut. And I know a lot of teachers use kohut in the classroom. So
Kohut, if you're not aware, is, um, like a
competition, right? So, in order to win
the game, what you need to do is you need to be the person that
answers accurately and quickly. If you
answer the question first and you have the right answer you get more
points. So time to climb is basically the same kind of thing. And what
happens is is the students choose their avatar and
as they answer the questions, they are climbing the mountain.
So I'm going to get quiet. I'm going to go through the
slide and let you see the questions. I'm not going to say anything
over over the slides whatsoever. Just watch the
game and wait till we get to the end and you can see the experience
that the that the student would have. So let's zoom
all right, so you could see from that game. My little avatar was
scoring points as I went up the mountain and got the
the different answers. Correct. And the great thing about that game
is you can play it all together so that it's a live
game and students can see themselves competing against one another. But you can
also play it at a distance in when students are accessing
the lessons at different times. So I'm the first person to have access that
lesson, so obviously I'm in first place if someone comes along
behind me and they answer the questions accurately in
less time, then they're going to take over. First place involved me down to second. So
it's a cool little competition that the students can
go through in order to see who can who can get 1st, 2nd
or third place. Alright, so here's a new slide on
volunteers. Here's a poll which
is, you know, an opinion question. There's no right or wrong on this one
again. We have the ability tohave the question read to us. Where would you
like to work? Let's say an animal shelter. I'd like to
volunteer. Click the submit button. We have a video
toe watch. I'm not going. Thio, watch the video, but it is here embedded.
Then we go toe a quiz. So what I'm going to do right now is I'm just going to go through
these 10 questions and just answer quickly because I want you to see
what the report looks like once we get to
the end. Because, remember, I am taking this
quiz as a test student, and
near pod is getting a report together about how I'm
doing so you can see that I scored
40% correct for out of 10 and I could take a
look at my answer is here, so I can look at
what? My answer, Waas and compare it to the right answer. So this is
Ah, a good little feedback for me as a student to
determine how well I'm doing right. So then I go to the next part of the slide.
I'm at the very end. I've now finished the lesson. I viewed every
slide I've participated and now I'm finished. So let
me go ahead and leave student view. And let's take a
peek at what the report looks like because we
have this integration with canvas. Let's take a peek of the report. So
now I'm in is the teacher. I'm going to click on Speed Grader when I
go to speed. Greater watch What happens? Well, that's Betty. Let's
go to test student have a couple of couple of Flintstones in my
course as well, Right? So here
is my report. Take a look at all of the
data that near pot has collected to
tell you all about me and what I did with this
lesson. So first of all, near pod gives you a participation.
They compare my participation to the participation of the overall class
happens to be the same. Because whether I was acting as Betty or Fred
or the test student, it's campuses all showing
this in your pod as one person because it knows that I'm not a true
student in Broward schools, Right? So here is the
participation report, So I have 100% participation. Basically, that means I
looked at every slide. Doesn't mean I did it with fidelity, but I did look at it.
Then they tell you what I got on my quiz, right? So I scored
40% on my quiz overall class, because it's a class of one is
40%. So you could compare my my score to the
class as a whole. And that would help the teacher. I think toe identify is
the quiz appropriate to the lesson, you know, are my questions do
easier? My questions too hard, that kind of thing. And then
I let you actually go into the specific questions. It shows you
my answers, and then it tells you if it's correct or incorrect. So this is a good way
that you could get You could get some good data on, you know does the
student not understand something like, Is she
getting? Was I getting all of the goods wrong? So I don't understand what a
good is. You know, you can look at that kind of information then it also
tells you what kind of participation that I have on the pole. Where would you like to
volunteer? Here's my answer. What kind of
participation on the open ended questions I did a 100% of the
questions. What are some jobs here on my answers, you can see
every interaction that I had. It's telling you that
I did participate. Now the time to climb is just a
game, right? It's a game designed to motivate the student. Oh,
understand how well he or she is learning? So it's not going to give you any data on
that. But it does show that it is in the lesson, and I did participate, and then,
lastly, we have the draw feature draw a picture of three
different goods will. Obviously I didn't do that, but you can see
specifically exactly what I wrote. So this is an example of
how you can launch a student paste lesson for
students to use inside canvas. You don't have to be
there delivering the live less unnecessarily right,
and the students are able to go through and interact with your lesson. And you're
still able to get some really good data that you could then
choose Thio. Add some comments and, you
know, tell the students what their grade is in regard to their
participation and their overall score on the quiz. So
that's an example of how the near pod report comes
in and gives you some data that you can
use. Thio submit to the canvas grade book and then, if you
choose to, you can also push it to Pinnacle through that integration. All
right, so now that we understand what the report does, let's talk
about and let me show you how toe actually
add these near pod lessons to your
course. So here's what I've done. I actually went
into not sure If you're aware of this, we're gonna take a little detour for a second.
Are you aware of all of the different information that is
available to us? The teacher inside the campus comments.
Maybe you haven't had an opportunity to go there yet. I hope you
have. But just in case, let me show you how
I decided to integrate near pod
into lessons that were already available inside the
comments. So what I did waas. I know that I have a great lesson
here on careers in our community. Remember, we talked
about editing earlier, so I'm going to go to the Commons
on I'm going to filter by Broward
Schools and I'm going to filter by
modules and I'm going to
add e
keyword career. I
found a great lesson earlier.
A great module earlier, right here by
Cristina Nunez. She is a first grade
teacher here in Broward, and I know she's a first grade teacher in Broward
because I am filtering by Broward schools and I'm filtering by
module. So I know she's a first grade teachers is fabulous First grade.
I was really impressed with the
quality of this module that she shared to
the common, So let's take a look at it. Once I
grabbed this module and took a look, I was
looking at all of the different activities that she had here. Obviously, they're
doing a career. Your career unit seemed like
just from the table of contents. I was able to say, Wow,
I think this is This is some pretty good stuff. So what I
did Waas is I brought it and I put it
into into one of my
sandbox courses in canvas because I
thought, let me just really, you know, take a really good look at it. So I
already know that this is quality right here, right? So
whenever I find something that that I think is really good that I would like
to use, I can click the import or download button,
and then I get an option of
adding it toe one or more of my
courses. I'm going to choose to put it into my building content course, because that's the
course we're working on right now. Whenever I click that it is
being added to the course you see you, you've successfully started.
The import might take a while, but it's there so I can go back
to my building content course.
I could take a look at, says hope, something being imported.
Let's look at the status. Hopefully, it's being imported quickly.
It's cued right now, which means I'm standing in line,
getting ready to have the import happened, it should happen
fairly quickly. So we'll go ahead and go back to modules. I
should see it show up in just a couple of minutes.
In the meantime, let me show you how toe add
a lesson in near pod. Because I have another lesson
ready to go with my American flag unit. Right. So
here's what you do again. Prerequisite. You have to
have the lesson available for you inside
of your okay library in near pod.
Theo edits Must have been made already. It's good to
go. It's good to use with students. So I have an American flag lesson
there. Available. Going to click back on modules.
I'm going to go to my American flag unit. I click the plus
sign. I click new assignment. I'm going to give it an
assignment name. Let me check and see what the name is in your pot. So the
name of this one is American Flag.
This is vocabulary. So let me go back to my
modules and I'm going to title this
American flag
vocabulary and I'm going to add the
item. So that's the first thing I do
after I've added the assignment in canvas. I
click on the name it goes right to the bottom of the module. I put it in a click on the
name and then I click. Edit.
The rich content editor comes up. I'm able to give my direction.
I like Thio give my students the same
direction for each near pot. I tell them to join this near pod
lesson because I need them to join because when they join,
every interaction that they have gives me information on the
report that comes back into campus. So join this near pod lesson.
Remember to click
the and I put it in capital. So it's not blue
blue. Submit
button and it
appears on your your
screen. Go ahead and copy that because we're gonna do a
couple of relations with
Europe lot, I'm going to show you again and again so that you can watch it, so I'll just copy that.
So at this point, I have a decision to make. Is this four points or is
this for completion on this one? I think I'm just going to do
completion, right, because my students are still learning. I'm not
going to give them the stress off having to earn a certain
amount of points. I just want this to be something engaging for them.
I know I'm going to get a report so I can have an idea of of how
much they've learned. And you know where their troubles are and
where they're succeeding. So I'm gonna use it just kind of information for
myself. So now that I've decided it's a
complete or incomplete, my next decision or
my next action is to connect near pot on campus, and I
do that through the external tool. So what I
have to do is by default whenever you have a new
assignment in canvas, no submission is the default.
So I click on the down arrow. I choose external tool.
When I choose the external tool canvases saying to me, Laurie, in which
external tool would you like to use? Well, let's find it.
So I'm going to scroll down and I'm bringing
in a near pod lesson. Right? So I'm going to click near pot.
When I click near pod, I want you to notice the window that
appears. The window that appears is my
lesson. Library, my library. Remember how I said it had
to be in your library. It can't be in the near pod library. You have to bring it
into your library, have it edited, have it ready to use
with students because that's the window that opens up
through the external tool. All right, so I found the
American flag Academic vocabulary lesson. I'm going to
hover over it and I'm going to choose student
paste when I click that I've
selected it. You can see back here in the external tool
little picker box. It's made that connection with that certain
lesson that I chose student pace and I'm just gonna click select.
Here's the code, letting me know that it's there. I'm going to
come down. I'm going to give it in a due date, which will make it
tomorrow. I'm assigning it to everyone. I'm
going to click, save and publish.
I know that it worked accurately because the near pod
lesson has populated in the window. And if you
remember my directions, we're joined this near pod lesson.
Remember to click the blue submit button, so I have all of the
information here for students
to go through the lesson and learn what they need
to know and just really experience the
different academic vocabulary words that go
with the American flag. Look at this. Even has a
VR lesson or a PR image in there for them. So that
is how you integrate your near pod
lessons into canvas. So
now remember that module that I brought in from
the canvas comments. It's here. It's
ready for me to edit. So what I'm
going to do is I'm going to add
mhm the near applied lesson on careers
to that module. So I'm going to call
it a career
exploration
again. What I did Waas, I added. I clicked the
plus on the on the module that hadn't the career information in
it. It came to assignment. I clicked new assignment.
I added my title and then I click Add item.
Any new item that I have comes to the bottom of the page.
I know that this near pod happens to be are
beginning near a pod lesson. And I've
already previewed this, um,
this module from the teacher that published it to the comments. Thank you
for publishing it to the comments, so I know that this would be a
great um, beginning lesson to kinda,
you know, activate prior knowledge and get my students, um, up to
speed on what I needed to know. So now that I've created this assignment, I click on the
title I go to edit.
Remember, with Near Pod, we want to give them the direction of joining the near
pod lesson and then also remembering to click the blue submit button when it appears on
your screen. So now for this lesson, I'm going to choose
to give it a point value. And
now I'm ready to make the connection. I do that
under submission, type by default. It is no submission.
I scroll down, I click on external tool,
I find near pod. That's the external tool that we're using.
So I find near pod. My near
pod lesson library opens up in the window. I
scroll down and I find careers in our community.
I have it edited. It's ready to use with students. I click
on student paste. The
connection is made. I click
select. There's the code. I know that it's there.
I'm going to give it a due date. I must do it
next Friday. Why not? And then I click
on save and publish.
I know that I did it correctly because the near pod lesson has
populated in the window. I can even
go back Thio my home screen. Let me make
sure. Yeah, I'm gonna leave because it looked like I enjoyed this.
I'm going to make sure that this
is published. Both of these air published these
modules. Now I'm going to come back to the home screen.
I'm going to go into student view. I do like to tell teachers, you know,
just as a precaution, it's a good idea. After you
put a New York pot in, just go ahead and view it as
a student. It's not going to, um it's not gonna make a
difference. It's not gonna mess up anything in your grade book or anything like
that. Anything that you submit, it doesn't It doesn't, you know, go
over to If you submitted as a test student, it
doesn't go over into Pinnacle, so there's nothing to worry about. What I want you
to make sure is I want you to make sure that the student has the
the arrows right. The features to go through the
lesson on their own. But we know that we have chosen a
student paste lesson, and it's easy for them to navigate, right?
So that's one thing. So we know the American flag is ready for my students to
use the American flag vocabulary lesson. Let's check
on the career exploration. So taking a look at career
exploration, I need to make sure that my students can go ahead and join
the session, which they have. I have my audio here. I have
careers in the community, um, super excited to have
my students, you know, participate in this lesson and see what they
know about different careers. And then even more
exciting is that the teacher chose to
share her her
lesson or her module. Excuse me, her module in the
Broward canvas Common. So now look at all this great
stuff that I have that's available
to use with students, and this teacher has done an excellent job. She's given us
the image, and then she has recorded her voice here, giving
directions and giving information about the activity so
super exciting that this is available. I'm very appreciative
that this teacher has chosen Thio share
her to share her hard work, you
know, in in the Broward canvas. Common. So
kudos to you, Cristina
Nunez. Thank you so much for sharing Super excited that
I could spotlight your share and bring it
into my near pod
course or my my near pod webinar course
So I can share this with others. Well, I think that ends
the the Webinar today.
Regarding how do you access your
near pod lessons via canvas and bring it into your canvas
course. Thanks for sticking around with me. I really appreciate it.
I hope that you will watch this video again and you'll get really,
really proficient at integrating near pod
into your canvas courses. And I can't wait to hear all of the
success that you have. Thanks, everybody have a wonderful