In my previous school district, I was the only teacher teaching a physics course with set, district-wide learning outcomes. These same outcomes were also taught in physics classrooms at the other high school in our district. But at our school, I was one of the 2 physics teachers. The other teacher taught the AP-level physics courses. So, in many ways, I had opportunities to incorporate strategies I believed were best for learners and that I found worked best for them without being seen as out of alignment with anyone in our building. My amazing friend and one of my teaching philosophy goddesses, Katie Novak, stated the following misconception about alignment: All teachers must deliver instruction in the exact same way. True alignment, she says, is about shared goals, rigor, and outcomes. Thank you, Katie! Katie has taught me to truly believe that learner variability is the rule, not the exception. I encourage you to take 10 minutes to listen to Katie Novak explain it in the ...
I was listening to the newest episode of the Shukes and Giff Podcast when they mentioned a new Chrome extension from the EdTech Team called AudioPlayer for Slides from EdTech Team. I was super excited to check it out as it allows users to record new audio and add it to a slide.
I teach physics in a co-taught classroom in which many of the students have difficulty demonstrating their understanding by composing written text. Many times they are able to successfully demonstrate their understanding verbally, though. This new extension will allow students to record their own audio explanations and add them to a slide to be played when viewed in presentation mode.
Last school year, we converted all of our lab reports from Google Docs to Google Slides as it allows for more robust creations and creates manageable chunking of tasks for learners who can easily get lost in long scrolling documents. In addition, it allows us to provide prompts and directions in the speaker notes leaving the majority of the canvas blank for learners to create. So, this new extension is a perfect fit for allowing all of our learners the ability to demonstrate understanding in the mode that suits them best. For example, a student may have a graph on a slide of their report in which they are expected to provide a detailed explanation for.
For some learners, describing the graph verbally may remove some barriers to demonstrating mastery that typing out a complete answer would present.
Below is a short video walkthrough of the app I created. I do a voice recording at one point so watch your audio level.
As you can see, it is not just for recording new audio. Existing audio can be added right from drive to the slide. It can be played on one slide or over multiple slides! So get the extension here. Then enable it and you'll be ready to go! Thank you EdTech Team for the great extension!
My only wish is that it didn't sit in the center of the screen when recording, or that it could be moved, as it blocks the current slide from being viewed. But, that is a minor complaint for a major leap forward in slide creation!
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