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Speaker: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Susan Coutler: OK, this is Grab-and-Go Lesson Plans. I'm Susan Coulter. I'm one of the OTANs SMEs. We're actually called subject matter experts, but we don't feel like we're expert in anything because we're always learning. Every time we turn around, we're learning something new. But we're more affectionately known as SMEs. It's not moving.

OK. I love this graphic. It's one of my favorites. And in all the sessions I've been in today, nobody hasn't really talked about it that much. So I'm going to talk about it. I kind of told myself I wasn't going to. News and social media, OTAN has a wealth of things. Every time you look at the OTAN website, there's-- not every day, but there's always some new article coming out finding out what's happening with technology, social media, they're on Twitter, they're on Facebook, they have a YouTube channel, all kinds of things.

The Annual Technology and Distance Learning Symposium, I know you know about that one. And then, there's online resources. If you notice, I went into one of the rooms to take some pictures and Joe Marquez was giving a session, but there was a camera in the back. That was Doug. And Doug, was filming the entire presentation, which means that it's going to be remediated, which will take a couple of weeks probably, but it will be posted up on the OTAN website.

There are videos from workshops that have taken place. I don't know if you're familiar with tech talks. Those are recorded. That's the purpose of doing a tech talk. You write an article, then you do a tech talk on it. I think Susan Garrett is doing one on AI on Friday. It's always the second Friday of the month. And that one will very quickly go up into resources. So you want to take a look at that.

OTAN digests and newsletters. There is a newsletter-- there's a quarterly newsletter that comes out. It's several pages long, but there's also OTAN Digest. And there's some cool things in those. I used to love when they had a site, sightings, I think it was called sightings. And it was websites, new websites that would pop up, and so very interesting.

Teaching the technology. That's what you're learning about today is teaching with technology. Teaching with technology is an online database of lesson plans, and that's what I'm going to share with you today. And professional development. Most of you know about professional development. If you can get 10 instructors together, they'll come out for free, and do professional development.

You just need 10 people registered. And if you don't have 10 people, talk to those adult school next door and the next community, so, yes. Our agenda for today. I'm going to talk a little bit about Tripoli. Feel like we've had a lot on that today, but we are going to talk about that. And then, WIPPEA, is the format that the Teaching with Technology database is using.

And we give you site details, I'm want to show you your way around one of the entries, and then I'm going to give you examples from different program areas. What I did-- we have a team that creates these. And I asked them, I said, give me your Three, top lessons that you really want to share with people, and everybody gave me two or three.

And so those are the ones I want to show you. I'm not going to actually show you the lesson plan, but we're going to talk about it a little bit. But I want you to write it down because in the end, I'm going to give you time to explore. And I want you to go into the database. I want you to explore it. And hopefully, by the end of this session, you will come out with a lesson plan that you can use in your classroom. That's the goal.

I want you to have something tangible when you leave here, and I want you to have the experience of searching the database. All right, let's go on. This infamous book, we had a couple of our SMEs. This is Liz Kolb, and it's learning first technology second. And Christy Reyes and Susan Gare got together and they heard about this book, so they got it.

And they wrote a white paper for it, got an article published, but they changed it for adult education. And then OTAN said, we want to adopt this. And so

Speaker: Keep going, ignore me.

Susan Coutler: OK. OTAN adopted it, and we started including it in our lesson plans. But she found-- yeah, she found that many teachers were using technology just to engage students. But what was the learning goal?

All right. And the three components of the triple E is engagement, enhancement, and extension. And these are some points about it. We did a whole presentation on a little earlier. Maybe some of you attended, but we tried to put these three components into each lesson. The other thing we are using is we've decided for the lesson plan, we were going to adopt WIPPEA.

And WIPPEA is, warm up, introduction, presentation, practice, evaluation, and application. And so those are the-- that is the format of all our lesson plans, so that's what we've included. This is one-- I picked one that was very general, could be used in any program area. And Khan academy, I'm sure everyone's heard about Khan Academy. But when you first come-- oh.

PATRICK O'NEILL: I'm sorry. I'm trying to keep up with chat.

Susan Coutler: Don't.

PATRICK O'NEILL: OK.

Susan Coutler: Yeah. Have them save their questions till the end.

PATRICK O'NEILL: OK.

Susan Coutler: That'll work. All right. This is-- when you come to an entry, you're going to first see a screenshot or something to do with that entry. And over here is a description, and it tells a little bit about it. Not much, just a little. At the top of what I want to point out. I wonder if I can do this. Can I do it here? I don't know. Oh, I can.

See these quick links at the top, lesson plan, standards, documents, those are a floating toolbar. And with the floating toolbar, as you go down the page, you want to very quickly get to the lesson plan. You can select it or one to quickly get to standards. It's very easy to navigate. And the first part, the-- oops, did I go on? No, I didn't.

The first, up here, the main website, that's just a general one. You can go to there and maybe search for some other activities. But the one that the actual entry is about, this one's on math, multiplication, division. OK, so those difficult. Never mind. I'm not going to worry about it. Anyway, and then it tells you what you need. What equipment do you need? Important.

This is from the old. We have all these entries. And in January of last year, OTAN moved their website. And with a new website, we came a new teaching with technology database. We kept the old entries. And we had been working in the background, trying to create lesson plans for every entry. And then in January, it went live.

So what you're seeing here is part of the old one, but there's preparation. It tells you what you need to do beforehand. Preview the video, match it, in this case, to your math exercises, and print documents, so this one has some documents. Teacher tips. I love the teacher tips. You can create a class. Students can sign on to Khan Academy and join your class.

You're then given details about student growth, topics they are struggling with, ones they have mastered, and time spent on Khan. More ways. Khan Academy has a wide range of mathematics subjects. And it goes from early math to calculus and statistics. So this activity is about division, but you can widen that to just about anything.

And then it gives a suggestion to use the flipped classroom, where you have the students watch the video beforehand and then come to class and do the worksheet or whatever. So what else are they having? Fahrenheit, sign. Some online practice. It has online practice. OK. Program areas. It lists the program areas.

And I pick this one specifically because it had all program areas: EDE, ESL, ASE, High School Diploma, Adults with Disabilities, and High School Equivalency, and CTE. The levels are for basic skills and ESL. So there are different levels on ESL. This is an actual-- the actual lesson plan. Remember, we have a warm up, so here is a warm up and there's-- it looks like there's a game.

Usually, warm up refers to something you've already covered. It's kind of refreshing their memory and bringing it up to the present lesson. Introduction, then it looks like there's a little game. You're playing a card game. It's 52 divided by 6 equals 8 with four cards left over. Anyway, a little activity there.

And then presentation. Well, this one I thought was interesting because you go to the video that is on Khan Academy, but you only watch it to 5 minutes and 16 seconds because he explains two different ways to do division. I don't know if you've-- I used to teach basic skills, and what I found was in Mexico, they teach a different way of doing division.

And it was very interesting trying to teach my students. I knew one way and I had to learn their way in order to be able to teach them. But here, they're stopping. Stop the video at 6 minutes and 33 seconds and discuss the two ways with the class. In small groups have learners draw or use manipulatives to explain the difference to the group.

There are two practices, not always two practices, but this particular activity has two practices. And then here you've got use Khan Academy to practice division facts. There are some-- oh, there are documents. Evaluation, there's a unit test at Khan Academy. So you are evaluating your students. And when finished, they can take a screenshot.

Anyway, this is the evaluation for this activity. The application is how can they use it in their lives. I like the idea of taking photos and sending it to the teacher, and then they can post it on a Padlet or something, so that everyone can see. All right. There are documents. Don't forget the documents. All right. Check out the documents.

There are three documents with this particular activity. Some there's maybe one, maybe none, but always check for your documents. Then it goes to standards. And I am not going to show you all the standards for this one because Khan Academy covers quite a bit. But there is the CGE standard and we try and put it in as close to the activity as we can.

Tags. Hopefully, with all those tags, you can find this activity. And then the other thing we've been doing is, how can you use it? How does Khan Academy allow you to use this particular resource? And we are trying to put those in. We don't have them all in at this point, but very important for us.

OK, these are ABE. So if you are ABE, I would say, yeah. The parent ED. All tech considered from NPR, Algebra2Go, and CNN, and-- oh, they got foor. I wonder how they did that. NPR is, the ones-- I did do a screenshot over here. There were about three that showed up. They are up to date.

There is a listening option for you. And you can add it to a playlist, and you can download it. I think downloading is very important, be able to download. Algebra2Go. I love this. It's kind of old. I hate to say it, but it is. Saddleback College got a grant years ago, and they produce these videos. And they are on pre-algebra math.

And the gentleman here is the student, and the gentleman over there is a teacher. Same person. And it's kind of interesting the way the videos are introduced. The kid comes into class late, and the teacher gets after him, and it's just well done. But there are class notes. There are video worksheets. There are video lectures. There are homework sets and there are quizzes.

And it used to be in all different format. Teacher Tube. So if you can't have YouTube at your site, there's different ways, and you can totally download it. Anyway, I think it's a great resource. CNN 10. That just happened to be the one that was up the day that I took a picture of it to put it into the-- I thought it was very appropriate, something new. But in CNN 10, it is current events, listening, speaking, writing, there are transcripts, and there are discussion questions. So if that's something that interests you.

Speaker: Can I mention something? There's also a quiz once a week.

Susan Coutler: Oh, OK.

Speaker: If you watch it every day. I used to have them. For five years, we watched it every day.

Susan Coutler: Wow. So, yeah, why not? All right. Google's Applied Digital Skills. This is really cool. It's a video lessons. There are Google slides, like applications on budgeting, planning an event, and there's writing. So something to take a look at, but it's more on digital skills.

ESL, OK. For my ESL people, I didn't get a link on that one. Anyway, the personal logo is they have the students first talk about types of logos. They talk about the types. This is for-- I think this is more the intermediate to advanced. They do the background behind logos. They do some research, and then they create their own personal logo, which is an activity.

And then they write, present about their logo, so they get up in front of the class and present. This is for beginning. So identify the capital letters of the alphabet. Speak, read, and write the capital letters, and spell and write their first name, last name, and street. So something straightforward and simple. Fantastic places in the Golden State for ESL.

I hear this is pretty popular. Susan Geyer and Christi Reyes both talk about this, but it's more for advanced or higher ESL. There are conversations, trivia about California. It's teaching the passive voice, so research and there is a presentation at the end. Pre-reading story bank. OK, this is beginning again.

There's reading, flashcards, sentence building. They create word cards and phonics in context, so anything along that line. This is one that-- this is Susan Geyer. She came up with this one. High School Equivalency. GCF LearnFree, a great resource, NoRedInk, and NPR's, "This I believe."

And I had to put in because of high school equivalency for the gentleman four tests 2014 GED practice tests, so there are some practice tests. OK, this is GCF LearnFree. It's very clear instructions. There are images, there's video presentations. I want to show you the next slide. This here is the math section. And you can see there's all kinds of resources there. Pre-algebra topics, images, interactives, math tutorials, a lot of resources.

NoRedInk. I used to do this with my ABE class, and it's-- the only-- you use it? Yeah.

Speaker: I used to do that.

Susan Coutler: Yeah, it's changed a little bit. It's not as free as it used to be. It is free, but they're pulling out. You may have something on commas, but then it'll be missing one on introductory phrases or something like that. There's some that are missing, but you can actually come up with a playlist for your students, what you want your students to watch, and they're well done.

NPR's, I believe, "This I believe." And they listen, they answer questions, there's an assignment. And then they write a narrative about a valuable life lesson. So this could be for the GED students. Great. They went the wrong way, I'm going to say. And for the practice test, I remember one summer I just wanted my students to be able to practice for the GED.

What I like about this is there's 30 questions on each one of these, so these are all separate tests, but then there's a second practice test, so there's a lot of resources here. And the thing I liked about it was the fact that you could-- the student, if they missed the problem, it gave an explanation on how to solve the problem, so it wasn't like they were just left. So great resource.

High School Diploma, FutureMe. Have you ever used FutureMe? No. Oh, my goodness. FutureMe is-- it's a goal setting. Students get an email address. So that in itself is a task. They learn about SMART goals, and then they make their goals. What is their goal for your class? So at the end of the semester, at the end of the quarter, I don't know how your school works, but then they write to their future self.

So at the end of the semester, they get something about their goal. So it really keeps them on task, and it's kind of cool when they get it. I used to do that when doctors told me in five years, you need to have this test done, or in 10 years. I can't remember. There's no way, so you should do that.

This is 21st Century Information Fluency Project. This is more on doing research for high school students. And as it says, teaching the essential steps of locating, evaluating, and using digital resources. But there's all these wizards. They have three wizards. One is a search wizard, another one is an evaluation wizard, and then finally, a citation, so that they can accurately cite their sources.

Oops, I'm going the wrong way again. 21Things 4 Students. This is more about-- and it uses videos, it uses vocabulary, tutorials, checklists, quizzes, certificates, and even badging to motivate students. It's talking about online safety, email, and email etiquette, and great resources.

Susan Rausch: Can I mention? I used 21Things 4 Students for drafting what I was going to teach in summer school, and it's all building digital literacy. It's excellent.

Susan Coutler: Yeah.

Susan Rausch: I learned that here at OTAN.

Susan Coutler: All right.

Susan Rausch: And I used it for years.

Susan Coutler: That's great. Yeah. Just one more resource. CTE. OK, I'm going to tell you about a resource and Learn360. Learn360, you can get a free account. And I put this up, they kept taking it out. Last time we presented, we took it out. But if you go to Resources on the OTAN website, and you go down to Curriculum Offers, you can request an account.

And lesson 307, I thought I was up to 374,000 videos. And if you have Canvas by-- I'm going to say by OTAN, but it's the California Distance Learning project, I think. If you have that, you can go into your Canvas course and you can open up an app, which Learn360 is, and you can directly put it in.

So when you go to, you want to embed a video in your Canvas course, it's right there. And I was impressed with it. And the reason I put it for CTE is, during the pandemic we had a problem with our cosmetology students. If you can't come to class, how do you learn? So I went online and I found all kinds of videos on how to cut care. It was amazing, and that's on Learn360.

Also I worked at a testing center, and I used to have the automotive students come in, and take their ASE tests. They have ASE tests on brakes, and transmission, and all kinds. Well, they've got videos on how to study for it, so great resource. And if nothing else, I would get an account in case you ever need a video.

All right. Now, I put in two. You can be using the classroom, you can download it, you can link it, you can embed it in Google Classroom. This is Moodle and Canvas. You can do all of these. You can-- if you don't have internet in your classroom, you can download it onto your computer, and play it from there. This is a great one. Creating a job cover letter. How many of our high school students are looking for jobs? They create a cover letter for a job they're interested in.

In pairs and groups, they edit and revise it, and then they work on their grammar skills. QUIZIZZ, online gamified assessment. This is a way to find out what students already know. Who was it? I think I've visited Torrance and there was an online-- a distance learning instructor, and she was using this.

And you should have seen her students. They were actively involved, very much so. App is not needed. You can create play quizzes. Hacienda La Puente. Actually, the nursing course, use this in a game type version. Got students together and they work together.

Adults with disabilities. Reading Skills 4 Today and Khan Academy. I'm not going to say much about Khan Academy, but-- oh, yes, I am. OK. Reading Skills 4 Today, I want you to see-- let me see, can I do it? Right there. Do you see across here there's different levels? These are stories that are different levels. And there was one summer where they had us create Quizlet.

So they would read a story, they'd study the vocabulary, and then they would take a quiz on it. So it was, it's a whole thing, and it's all part of the Reading Skills 4 Today, and there are links to that. So there's free questions, just post questions, supplement documents, story, and different levels. And this is more.

And some of the different ways to adapt. They give you option A, option B, ways to adapt for all. Summarize story writing, you can draw. I have students draw. If you have really low adults with disabilities, but you could use this for ESL too. Don't think it's just adults with disabilities. OK, this is Khan Academy, again. We're back. Back to Khan Academy.

And what I want to show you is internet safety. All right. Welcome to all account safety passwords, quick videos, less than five minutes, adults within videos, and it's easy to understand. All right. How do we find activities? Are you ready?

Speaker: Yes.

Susan Coutler: I want to send you out, but not quite yet. Hang on for just a minute or two. OK. In searching you can search by program area. So we can search by program area, we can search by CCR standards, if you happen to know what standards you are looking for. They do give a brief description so-- or you can go by keyword. I'm doing a lesson tomorrow and I want some lessons on fractions. Put it in, see what happens.

OK. This is the program area. And all six program areas are there, and you just need to select the one that you are interested in. CCRS categories. They are divided by reading foundational skills. That's kind of like the very beginning skills on reading. Reading, writing, speaking and listening, language and mathematics. So you can go in that direction.

OK, it's your turn. I would like you to go to otan.us. Select the Resource tab. And on the Resource tab, select Teaching with Technology. You got it?

And your assignment. I want you to explore your area of interest. Select at least one activity. You have to select an activity to share with the group.

Speaker: So OTAN resources, and then what?

Susan Coutler: Teaching with technology. And when you pull up some activities, they come in groups of 5, and then you have to go on. And I got good news for you. Used to be the database was very slow. But Angela told me this morning that she sped it up, so it's moving a lot faster. OK, is everyone able to get in? What did you find?

Speaker: Nothing for my level, but I found a lesson for a random act of kindness, which possibly could be for all levels.

Susan Coutler: OK. And--

Speaker: I actually found the same one. I read the same one because in parent Ed, one of the things we're doing, we're encouraging the parents who are constantly modeling for their children. Ramadan is coming up, so I have students who are Muslim who are going to be sharing what they do during this religious holiday. And one of the things we do is talk about 30 days of mindful deeds and acts of kindness.

And so I see how it could absolutely work into the parents, encouraging them to learn more about other cultures because that's we're modeling for the kids always.

Susan Coutler: Yeah. And you're--

Speaker: I'm going to say, we share this. I didn't even know. [laugther] [MUFFLED] was the YouTube channel.

Susan Coutler: I was a little worried we're going to find something, but then it dawned on me. Yeah.

Speaker: Because the parents, it's an odd program, but it's the parents who are our students, so we are always mindful of what are we teaching the parents because they will be giving that--

Susan Coutler: To the students.

Speaker: And that's one of the things that you want to teach them because so much when parents come in, they're thinking, what is my child need to succeed in school? ABCs, colors, shapes, numbers, et cetera. They don't realize that even for our school district, that's only a third. That that academic knowledge is only a third of what they're saying will help a child do well in school. 2/3 of it is social interaction, and self-management, and awareness of other people, and so that's what we're doing. We're working,-- acceptance of other people, being able to appreciate differences without finding them scary, that kind of stuff.

Susan Coutler: OK.

Speaker: So it's family literacy. It's actually--

Speaker: It's not family literacy.

Susan Coutler: And what did you have?

Speaker: When you were scrolling through things, I saw the pre-beginning story bank, and so I went and looked in there. And I said, oh, yeah, this is perfect. It's like it looks like a spin off, and maybe some of the things from that martial adult in Minnesota. And I was like, yes, OK, I found a link to my story bank, again.

Susan Coutler: OK. Did you come up with anything?

Speaker: I was looking at 21 Things 4 Students. And I found--

Susan Coutler: Yeah. Anyone else want to share? OK, what about online? What do we got?

Speaker: I've been using this, I believe, for years with ABE language arts students, but have had to make up my own questions writing assignments, but now I'm ready to make assignments to steal. Yeah.

Susan Coutler: All right. And--

Speaker: That's the only one response to this point. Come on, guys.

Speaker: Found Google's Applied Digital skills.

Susan Coutler: Yeah. OK. And I want to thank the people online for joining us. And I'm going to-- here we go. I think we're going to stop the recording and close off.