1.Providing Scaffolds and Supports with LiveBinders By: Matt Bergman Milton Hershey School

2. About Me Bergman-UDL@blogspot.com 3. How to strategically use LiveBinders to scaffold and support learning for ALL students What are we going to learn today? 4. Another professional development binder! Ugh!!! 5. Web-based way to organize and share resources in an easy-to-use electronic binder What are LiveBinders? 6. Easy way to share all of the resources for an assignment in one place Why LiveBinders? 7. Common LiveBinder Mistakes 8. 1. NOT meant to be a replacement for a class website 9. 2. Too Many Tabs and Sub Tabs! 10. 3. Replacement for ALL of your Social Bookmarks 11. Start Simple! 12. Where can I get ideas? Thousands of binders to browse and use! 13. Flipped Classroom? 14. UDL? 15. Recipes to Design Binders That Reduce academic barriers before they occur Scaffold and support learning 16. Planning My Binder Begins with Looking at High-Probability Barriers Predict Overcome Plan 17. Predict High-Probability Barriers Goals Methods Materials Assessments Learning Goal: Read and demonstrate an understanding of text. 18. Ingredient # 1 Options for Reading Required Text 19. What web resources could you provide students with to overcome the barriers you had mentioned? Now its time to plan to use our resources to scaffold and support students! 20. Ingredient # 2 Vocabulary Supports The achievement gap is largely a vocabulary gap. Robert Marzano Matthew Effect 21. What could I do to help close the gap? 22. Quizlet to pre-teach KEY terms! 23. Visuwords 24. Blanchan Shahi 25. Ingredient # 3 Interaction Read Write Think Venn Diagram Maker 26. 4. Summarizing Learning Padlet (formerly Wallwisher) 27. Lets see what it looks like! http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/581083 28. LiveBinder Tip # 1: Make Use of Subtabs 29. LiveBinder Tip # 2: Make Your Tabs Easier to Use and See 30. Recipe # 2 Scaffolding Learning Throughout a Chapter 31. PREDICT: High- probability barriers students may face? Think about all of the different barriers students may face in a chapter or unit you teach 32. PREDICT: High- probability barriers students may face? OVERCOME: What resources can I use to overcome these barriers? PLAN: What is my recipe? Think about a unit, chapter, or lesson that you teach 33. Ingredient # 1: Activate Learning 34. Create Your Own Word Cloud with AnswerGarden.ch 35. Ingredient # 2: Communicating Essential Question Blogger of the day Post an essential question Description of what happened in class 36. Ingredient # 3 Ingredients to Learn Note Outlines 37. Give Students Your Presentations! 38. Instead of re-teaching, why not create screencasts? 39. What web tools do you use to get your students to study? tinyurl.com/2padlet 40. Ingredient #4 How to Get Students to Study! 41. Have Students Review Concepts and Vocabulary Terms with MoveNote https://www.movenote.com/v/E8ONzJyM3Dqkc 42. Lets See What it Looks Like! http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=1186522 43. LiveBinder Tip # 3: Sharing Your Binder 44. LiveBinder Tip # 4: Present Your Binder for Simple View 45. Recipe # 3 Scaffolding Assignments 46. What if you used LiveBinders as a form of scaffolding? 47. What is the purpose of scaffolding? 48. Maslows Hierarchy Assignment 49. What happens to work sheets when you give them to students? 50. Ingredient # 1 Easy-to-Find and Impossible to Lose Directions 51. Ingredient # 2 Communicating Announcements and Goals The human brain is incredibly goal-oriented and objective-driven 52. For those students who need an extra reminder to get started! Hello class! Your project is due Monday morning! Make sure that you print out 2 copies. 53. Ingredient # 3 Helping Our Students Find Resources www.google.com/cse 54. Symbaloo 55. Draggo 56. Ingredient # 4 Provide Supports for the Non-Experts! 57. FAQs with Screencast-o-Matic 58. Lets See What it Looks Like! http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/581009 59. LiveBinder Tip # 5: 100 MB is NOT ENOUGH SPACE? 60. LiveBinder Tip # 6: Organize Your Binder by Placing it on a Shelf 61. Recipe # 4 Student Portfolios 62. Ingredient # 1: A Picture Speaks a 1,000 Words with PhotoPeach 63. Ingredient # 2: Share Evidence 64. Ingredient # 3 Journalize Experiences 65. Journalize Through Video 66. Journalize through Audio Michael Faraday School https://audioboo.fm/boos/1092527-finnj2#t=0m19s 67. Recipe # 5 Creating a Living and Breathing Textbook 68. 2010 69. Lets See What it Looks Like! 70. LiveBinder Tip # 7: Password Protect Your Binder 71. Other Ideas for LiveBinders? 72. Think Simple Think about Learner Difference and tools to help address differences Think of potential barriers to accessing information and how to address them Use tools in strategic ways What is the Key? 73. Thank You Email: mattbergman14@gmail.com Blog: Bergman-UDL@blogspot.com Twitter: @mattbergman14 Presentation: tinyurl.com/bergman-bcsc