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Debbie Jensen: It is-- this is one of the presentations I love most present because I love CK-12. And I want to share it with you.

My name is Debbie Jensen. I was an adult basic skills instructor at Baldwin Park Adult and Community for over 30 years. Today I focus my time working for OTAN. I'm a CK-12 certified instructor. And I'm happy to be here and share with you the future of digital education, which is CK-12. They are interactive digital textbooks. And they're free.

My co-presenter is Katie Hamon. She's from CK-12, and she will demonstrate CK-12 to us. She knows everything there is to know about CK-12 and will help us with any questions you have. I hope you have many questions. I've got my chat open so that I can see it. It's right on top of my screen. So if you have a question, we want to answer it as we go, so that you have an opportunity to learn.

I truly believe that this is something that helps adult education and will be a blessing to our students. In the time we have together, let's answer what is CK-12? Let's explore what it can do for you, look at the new adult education website at CK-12 and its resources. We'll look at them as an educator. And then we'll also look at them and see what the student has available to him.

And then a little bit about my own experience, and then we're going to go live. I want to show you just how user friendly CK-12 is. And so we want to spend time with that. OK, now I'm going to turn the time over to Katie, so she can tell you all things CK-12.

Katie Hamon: Sounds good. Thank you, Debbie. So for many of you, this may be your first introduction to CK-12. But we've been a premier flexible learning solution since 2007. And we've served over 200 million users from around the world.

We really believe that every student has a unique, personalized learning journey. And we try to offer multiple pathways for students to learn in their own way. We're a nonprofit organization. And all of the resources that you find on CK-12 are free for you to use, all textbooks, interactives. All of that is 100% free.

So you're not going to see advertising on our site. You're not going to hit a paywall to access our FlexBooks. It's really a chance for you to go ahead and explore and take skills to the next level and share them with your students. And so that access is free for teachers and students. And it's going to give you the tools and resources that you need in any setting.

Now, we are used across the world. You can check our usage map at the bottom and see the breadth of places that we're used by teachers, students, districts, because not only is it free, but it's really the best content.

When you're using a CK-12 resource, you can trust that our core content-- we do have user-created content that has varying levels and content and options-- but our core CK-12 content is of the highest quality. It's been developed by over 100 PhDs, professors, teachers, authors, NASA scientists, and other subject matter and domain experts since we started over a decade ago.

And then another major point is that we try to make that content accessible. So we've worked hard to make that content available on every platform-- you don't need a particular device, any tablet, laptop, Chromebook, all the rest is totally fine-- and available in print and digital formats.

So you can download our books if you need a customized version, or you need a text copy, or some of our practice questions, as well. Now, the best experience is live because you get all that interactivity piece. But there are available options for offline, as well.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. So what is CK-12? Let me first ask you a question. What do you want most as a teacher? And the answer when I was in the classroom was, I wanted to try and meet the needs of each student. But traditionally, we've had to be satisfied with the needs of the majority, knowing that some of the needy students are slipping through the cracks.

Enter technology. Today, with the help of technology, we can individualize our assignments and offer them in more than one modality. Now think "better still." Now CK-12 offers their FlexBook 2.0, customizable digital textbooks, that have interactive content, including adaptive practice, simulations, interactives, study guides.

Now on this slide, you can see that CK-12 has also offered an assistant for every teacher in the classroom. And we will be looking at this. But what it means is that they offer insights into what the student's doing, what the student doesn't understand. And that saves you a lot of time.

As part of their assistance, CK-12 will organize your students into a digital classroom and assess. And then you can access an intelligent gradebook that easily displays what the students are doing and reveals patterns. Then you can spend your time addressing the problems that have been revealed.

At CK-12 they recognize, and I'm quoting, "all people everywhere learn in their own way." Technology at its best should assist the learning. So CK-12 has accepted that challenge. They join technology and quality content. Then they equip students and teachers with everything they need to access the resources and assess the students' learning.

To top it all off, they've created a platform for you to take their existing content and modify it or add to it. You can even start from scratch with a blank FlexBook 2.0 and create your own resources. So what it means is you have a smart, 21st century FlexBook 2.0 that can include videos, interactives, simulations, assisted practice that assesses student progress, guides their learning, making their problems or questions more difficult or less difficult, depending on the student.

If the student's struggling, they'll make suggestions to the student about other media, such as videos or real world applications, that might work. And to the teacher, they'll let you know what they're struggling with and what they don't understand.

Now, Katie's going to go live right now because I'm so excited about these lessons. But you've got to see one. You've got to see one to know what we're talking about. So let me stop sharing and let Katie show you an example of one of our FlexBook lessons.

Katie Hamon: Thanks, Debbie. I'm going to start at the adult ed page. You can find that under Subjects and pick any of your adult ed options from our home page. Those actually don't show up on the adult ed page because you're already there. But they do show up if you click Subjects elsewhere.

So if we're on our main page, I can go to Subjects. And then I can kind of jump to our Adult Education page. So let's get to basic education here. And from here, I'm going to open the first FlexBook up there. So let's look at our first options.

And you'll notice that across the CK-12 platform, depending on when the resource was made or who created it or what happened, you're going to have different resources and opportunities and levels of interactivity and all the rest. So just be aware that that's based on a number of different factors. So I want to kind of stick to the adult ed ones to start to give you a sense of what's available in those and across those.

So our math and science, CK-12 is core math and science, so these books were taken from our core content. They were then customized and aligned with the ideas of the topics that adult learners would need for this particular piece.

And you can see here that there's a number of different authors, from OTAN to another couple adult educators. Debbie worked on this book at one point in time, so her name's on there as well. But if I go ahead and I just pick a chapter, and I expand this chapter, and then I pick a lesson within it, it's going to drop you into the lesson.

And this lesson has a couple of different components. So you're going to see core text, you see your title, your core text, what's happening. This one gives you an opening scenario. A lot of our things really try to start with something that relates to real life and hooks students into that piece. You'll see text options.

In math, you might see example problems or, in this case, place-value charts, different parts there. You'll see embedded videos or an embedded interactivity within our lessons across our content areas, all sorts of different pieces here.

And as you keep going down, you can even see sometimes questions directly within here. Or, as you can see on the bottom right here, a digital quiz. So this quiz opens up. These quizzes were curated to go with this piece. You, as a teacher, can preview this quiz. But a student would get dropped directly into that quiz.

We can talk a bit more about our practice and our quizzes as we go through in a later piece. But I want you to be aware that that is tied directly to this lesson. So those questions match this content. You can assign this. If you're using the Assign option at the top, that all kind of ties in together and works with it as it is.

Now within the lesson, there are a couple other pieces. So one, you'll see this little guy on our bottom left, our little student tutor option. So our student tutor in a math thing just has a task. That might say, for a student, hey, you have an assignment coming up, for a teacher, students have finished work. You can see insights.

If we go over to the science one, we'll see some other options, as well, that are being expanded, where you can actually ask our student tutor questions or our teacher assistant questions about the platform or about different pieces. But keep in mind that that's available there, definitely to keep you on track and your students on track, as well as to ask questions. And that opportunity to ask is going to be expanded across our platform as we go.

Within our toolbar up at the top, let's say we have something where we talk about-- at the top, we talk about place value. So "a decimal is a part of a whole." I'm going to highlight that. We have annotation tools available within here. And then I can find-- as a user, whether I'm a student or a teacher-- I can find all of my notes and highlights here.

So I can then use that as a reference. We'll have teachers that will encourage students to highlight all vocabulary in one color and all key topics in another, all formulas in another. And that way, they have a really quick little review option, when they want to go back to that particular lesson.

So you have some other options in here, as well. But the one that we're highlighting right now is that Notes and Highlights option. We mentioned that there's attached practice for this lesson. And at the very bottom of the lesson, I also want you to be aware that we have built in a Google Translate option. So if your students are speaking another language as their home language, their primary language, then you can go ahead and it will convert all of the core text into-- in this case I pick Spanish.

And that might be useful for a student to go ahead and work from there and get a chance to say, OK, well what was this? OK, that's what that said. And now I'm going to go back to English and try to learn the English vocabulary that I'm going to need for some of that practice, those quiz questions that are attached. But that opportunity to actually convert that content into another language for English language learners, can be really, really important as you go through.

So that's one-- let's just, so you can see for a second a chance to understand what else might be a little bit different. So in high school equivalency, let's pick our science option. There's a couple of science options down here at the bottom. So let's give you a sense of how those might be slightly different than math.

And you'll see here, same deal. You got your overall piece. We have our chapter options here. In this case, let's pick another chapter, another section. So we go in here, one on photosynthesis. And you'll see here a similar setup with attached questions, with our little tutor/assistant in the bottom-left corner. I actually click on it. Maybe it'll load. And you'll be good to go from there.

So, again, we're starting with some sort of scenario. In science, it's usually an open question for our core content. And then you can scroll down. And in this case there's built-in questions, there's a built-in video in this place. You might even see built-in interactivity, depending on when the content was pulled. We'll show you some more of that, as well. It's just going to keep loading while I'm talking.

And then, same deal-- the quiz right here, your summary and answers. If I did notes and highlights, I could access those in my toolbar in the top-right as well. And then when that loads, I'm going to go ahead and click on here.

And you'll see that our tutor/assistant in the bottom left has one other option. So you can see here that we are beta testing this out. So this is a newer feature. And you can say, let's see, "Why isn't Pluto a planet?"-- ask a question. So it could be a science question. In this case, we're working off of our science as our starting peace.

Or you could do something as an educator and say, "How do I customize content on CK-12?" And that's going to pull up information to help you do that piece. And you can get a link to a helpdesk article or a video. So all of that is built into our core lesson as opportunities to work with. And that little Q&A piece is being tested in our science content right now and will expand out from there.

And so that kind of core piece with text and videos or other interactives that you'll see in different places is based on the fact that we started as a core math and science content. And you will see other resources for other subject areas on the OTAN page and across our platform. And those may have different levels of interactivity, based on who created them and where they're coming from.

But hopefully that's a quick overview of what that lesson looks like. Debbie, is there anything else you want me to cover right now? Or should we save the rest of it for later on?

Debbie Jensen: Let's save it. I love it. Thank you.

Katie Hamon: You're welcome

Debbie Jensen: All right, I'll continue. Let's see. All right. And then we will go back to-- screen 2. Then we'll continue with the slide show.

OK, I'm going to share some of the things she said because I just fell in love with this more and more as I went through. This is the lesson that she showed-- an example of a lesson that she showed. And on it you'll see, at 1, something that we're going to talk about a little bit later. But this is where the class insights are, where you find all about the class and how the class is doing, which students are struggling. At 2, that was the highlighting.

Now, as an ABE teacher, having a textbook help me teach the students how to critically read would be really powerful. Having to them to be able to highlight the main idea or topic sentences or whatever, that's cool. And that they can gather all their notes in one place-- very, very nice-- so that they, no matter where they are, they can be taking notes on their text.

At the bottom you see the quiz. And these quiz quizzes are all connected with the lesson. And they can be expanded. I don't even know how many questions CK-12 has developed over all of these topics. And you have access to those. So if you think the quiz needs a little bit more, you can look at all the questions they've already created. Or you can create your own questions, maybe ones that you've gone over in class and you want to be sure that are in those quizzes. And so you can customize those quizzes to fit your students' needs.

At 4, we have the student helper. And she showed you him. He's great. So let me move to the next slide.

OK, on this one I'm looking at a little bit more about some of the study features. If you open up the taking notes at number 1, you will then open it up. And you see it at 2. And you see where you can actually take the notes and write them right there on your screen.

You can also-- they'll show you where it goes. It goes over on the third place. And I also like, on the left, where you can see the basics of real numbers, which is actually a study guide.

Now, I never really thought study guides were going to be all that great, and whoa, this is something revolutionary. But these study guides are impressive in their scope. And they were written by students. And so they cover and look at it, not as the teacher, but as the student. And so they're very valuable. And I think your students and your teachers will be very pleased with what's there and available for them.

If we continue scrolling down the lesson, you're going to see videos like is on the left. But then also, on the right, this is a math one. And so this is if they get into the practice. Now, the practice, it's always 10 questions. And it is determined and helped out by CK-12. If the student's getting the questions wrong, then the questions get easier. And helps are offered by the assistant.

If the student's doing really, really well, then the questions get harder, so that it's adapting. And they call it adaptive practice. And it's magnificent. So at 1, you see that you're on question 2 of 10 questions. At number 2, you see the level that you're at. So right now, it's beginning. You're just starting.

3 is the scratch pad. Again, how better could it be than to be able to actually do the problem they're in and on a scratch pad available to you. And at number 4, you see the tools that can be used with the scratch pad. This makes it so that the student can actually practice right there in the book.

Now, this is recently, CK-12 is always changing. And that's cool. This is something that's being added, a feature that's being added right now to geometry and the biology classes. In the lessons, they went back and they went for terminology.

Like here, it says "A line segment is a portion of a line with two endpoints. An array is"-- now that's in the text. But they've added the interactive right there. So that the student can understand what they're talking about with that vocabulary.

They assist the student's understanding with the terminology. And you can also customize your lessons with added features that you would like to put into each lesson, maybe something you feel is-- would really, really-- would help them with what they're studying.

Now, let's assume that you've split your screen. And you've gone to CK-12. I suggest it. [chuckles] Go to ck12.org. This is the screen you're going to see. And you'll see, at the top arrow on the left, where it says "Switch to teacher view." If you do that, then it'll be all things teacher. And so that's valuable for you to be able to do.

If you click on it, it's going to-- once you've enrolled, then you will be in the teacher version. Now, notice in the center, CK-12 has included topics of interest, including adult education. Now I circled that and put an arrow with it.

March 2021, CK-12 and OTAN partnered to put a place on CK-12 for adult education, teachers and students. So we have our own web page. And we are excited because it's growing. OK, so we're continuing on that first page. Now, this is me coming in the second time. The first time, it looked like the other screen. This is the second time I came in. I was looking for math.

And so what you're going to see is at the center of the screen, these were things that were recently viewed or things that they recommend. So they're helping me right from the start in my search of trying to find materials. I can click on Recommended by Subjects. I can click by Standards. I can also use the concept map as ways to filter my search.

Now along the top, you've got the dashboard. You've got classes. And we'll look at that. You've also got your Library. This one's really important. And you may not know it at first because any time you see something or find something that you think, oh, that's really cool, or maybe not for you. Maybe it's for the teacher next door.

But it's really cool. And you don't want to lose it. Add it to your Library. Your Library is your repository of great stuff. You may work on it today. You may work on it in several months. But it's saved for you. It's kind of like bookmarking the things that you want.

The next part is Subjects-- we're going to look at that-- so that you can look at a general section that gives you an overview of all subjects. And then there's Explore. The last one is what you want to learn. And this is the Search bar. And so you can type in what you're wanting to learn there, as well.

This is the Subjects. And you can see that the first digital efforts that CK-12 made were in the STEM courses. And so you had Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. They've branched out now to include courses that are made by community partners, as well. And so you have more than just their core courses.

And you see that I circled the Adult Education because I wanted you to just know how proud we are that it's there. And, just this week, Career Technical Ed and English as a Second Language were added.

So we're continuing just looking at all of the different things. And Katie's going to look at these because there's no way that just looking at this slide is going to give you an idea of how cool simulations are. But I just wanted you to see the breadth that they have of things that you can use.

You may not want a whole textbook. But how about that beginning activity? Or how about that ending activity? Or something to assist in your students understanding. The ones that you see on the screen are all-- these are physics. There's also chemistry simulations.

But we have a driverless car, or scientific measurement done at the crossroads, or motion and position under Irwin and Ruthie. And those are little robots. You also have model rockets, and through that you learn about motion and acceleration, or telescopes and how they work, with concave mirrors or convex mirrors, or the prom night and mirrors trying to reflect how well you look and how that whole process works.

So lots that is here. You can spend a lot of time. And the good news is that whenever you find something you like, just put it in your library. Now again, we've got PLIX. They call these Play, Learn, Interact, and Explore. Math and science, all types of math and science-- arithmetic, measurement, algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, trigonometry.

In the sciences we've got life science, earth science, physical science, biology, chemistry, physics, just all sorts of things. And so you can filter them by different topics that you may be teaching. But also, they just help with-- like metric. You may not think you're doing math. But if you're having to use metric in any way, that would be helpful for students to learn about it and how it's done. So just lots of things that are here and available.

Here's an example of a PLIX activity. Now, they have elaborate ones. This one was simple for me. I'm an ABE teacher. I teach basic math. And my students struggle with the ideas of parallel and intersecting, perpendicular-- this vocabulary.

And in this, you drag the points on the line from one house to another. And then the line you've created, they ask you, is it parallel? Very simple idea, but something that allows them, when they are on their own, to practice a concept.

How many times do you realize, your students aren't getting the vocabulary. You're using it. You think they get it. But then you realize, it's going over their head. And especially in your math and things like that. That becomes challenging.

I wanted to share another section under Explore on the menu bar on the home page. And it's the teacher testimonials. There are hundreds. And I spent time and listened to all of them. And they are inspiring. To get to know CK better, I wanted to see what people were saying. These are teachers and administrators who have discovered valuable truths.

For example, the director of the Coeur d'Alene School District wanted his students to investigate and experience lessons, to be able to go at their own pace, and design their own learning. Using CK-12, that was possible.

Another teacher wanted to be able to tailor their own FlexBooks. We have something historical that happens. What's happening right now in the world, that's not in any textbook. But it can be in your FlexBook because you can add it on the weekend. And it will be there on Monday, never out of date. And local-- what's happening locally? You can put those things in your textbook. It's exciting and not hard.

One teacher learned that she loved her FlexBook year by year because she found that the students discovered how to learn, how to find their own answers through the books and through the learning and the things that they could explore.

One teacher wanted to expand the students' learning and was able to do that. And she got so excited because she was used to taking home one of those little rolly carts with all of the books and the things that she needed every day. She just put it all in her FlexBook. One book, one place-- the students have everything they need. And she was excited, too.

Now, just two more. One teacher talked about a student coming to her and saying, teacher, I couldn't do it. I didn't have a computer at home. And a student beside him said, dude, use your phone. That's impressive. How exciting! They can use their phones to access all of these things.

And then the last one, and this is one that I know will touch your hearts, as it did mine. A parent came in and said they wanted to help their student with it. But they were so sorry, they did not read English well. And so the teacher was able to show how the textbooks can be changed into other languages.

And for us, with so many languages that are reflected in our classes, sometimes five or six different languages in our classes, how valuable is this, that you can have books that can meet their needs?

We have a question. "Can the courses be broken down into individual credits instead of a full semester? Many of our adult ed students come in with partial credits." The credits are going to be up for you, what you plan on doing with it. But the FlexBook can be broken up any way you want. If you've got a FlexBook that's got 12 units, cut it up. Have one. Have another.

And the value of that is, you can assign individual students to individual books and lessons. And you can tailor the lessons. Maybe you have a basic that has ones that you've pulled in. You can use all sources that are at CK-12.

One of the things that I did was I wanted to make sure that-- ABE students struggle because they don't read at an eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th, 12th reading grade. They were often at four.

And so I went to CK-12. I went to their science lessons, which are talking about earthquakes or just basic things like planets that the students, they're interested in. But it's written at a fourth grade reading level. And so then, that reading material is available to my student. And you can do that. You can divide up your textbooks to reflect what your students need. And you're right it is, it's magnificent. I get more excited every time.

OK, here's the site. This changed last month. Now, it was fabulous last year. I was all excited, wanted a drum so I could do a drum roll because we had our site. Now, it reflects us even more. And so, go here. Definitely pay attention to the videos that are here. This is us. CK-12 was designed for kindergarten through 12th grade, a lot of college stuff. I mean, there's lots. I love it. But this is us. And this is, so it reflects our needs and what we're doing.

As you see, we have an Adult Basic Education section. Let me tell you how this was organized the reason I know is I had a hand in it. They said, OK, what's being used for adult education in basic skills. And so I went, and I turned to see what I was using. And that's what I gathered here.

You'll see that there was a lot of math. Math depends on how you want to teach it, how you want to order it. And that can all be done. Find one of the books you like. If it's not perfect, that's OK. Take out what you don't like. Go to another book. Find things you do like and add them in. Create your own. And then at the end, you see the ABE Basic Science Reading, part 1.

And your question, "Are more books being developed for adult ed?" I am so glad you asked. The answer is yes. And the challenge is to you and to all of us. Your work can be put here too, so that we can grow this to reflect the needs that we as adult educators have. This is our high school diploma. And it's pretty decent. I mean, you could pretty much run your program. You've got high school US history. You've got government. You've got economics, biology, chemistry, physics, pre-algebra, and algebra 1.

Now, these are the ones that we thought would be useful and appropriate. Don't ever forget to go back and check the CK-12 for everything that's available. Maybe you're teaching earth sciences. Well, they've got a great textbook on earth sciences. So use that, too.

Yes, I will show you what we do have at ESL. Our ESL section, we are very proud of. Let me get to it. All right. So this is the high school equivalency. And if you have taught GED, or have any recollection of those courses, they are foundational math, algebra basics, geometry, data, statistics and probability, algebra, mathematics companion, science for high school.

And this is growing. We have a teacher that is working on it. And she's almost ready to add hers. So this is-- that you can do this. Some of these you'll see, and you'll go, oh, that that's just great. Then that's the one that you start with, and add from there.

The link to it? Yes, we will get that link into you.

OK, these were added three weeks ago. All right, under the CTE we have Career and Technical Education topics-- anatomy and physiology, health science, and cosmetology. Again, there's so much out there.

The way the first one happened was in my own district. I was trying to convince my CTE teachers that CK-12 has things for them. And so I went through and I got materials for our automotive services, our cosmetology and barbering, our culinary arts, our electrician and heating, and health science, and medical technology.

And so those were just a lesson or two on each of those, to let them know, yes there's great stuff here. Look and see what you can find.

And then the last one, this is our ESL. We have the beginnings. We're so excited. But we need you, the lessons that you create and that we can add here.

They have a platform that makes creation easy. You can add videos. You can add text. To your can add images. And then, they have a repository of questions that's huge. But you can also add your own questions and create your own quizzes. And this is all here.

So when I was trying to find things for ESL, I went all the way down because I wanted to see what CK-12 had. And they had, of course, kindergarten and first grade. So I thought, well, are they going to be bouncing bunnies and things like that? And I found one that is a poem. It's-- oh, I don't know if it's a poem. It's about shadows. And it's beautiful. And of course, it's written at that low reading level. And it was totally usable right now for a teacher in adult ed.

I didn't want to get past this. One of our teachers who's working on the high school equivalency courses knew that you start with a CK-12 FlexBook. And you kind of might not know what to do with it. So she created a series of videos.

The videos included-- let's see what, were they-- an introduction to CK-12, learning through reading, highlighting and taking notes, changing the language, how to use clicks and interactives, and online practice. These are great little videos.

Now, here's the kicker. You can put these videos in yours, in every one of yours. You can take her introduction, and you can put that in each of your textbooks if you think that will help your students. And that's the thing that's so cool. It's like you have a smorgasbord, and you get to take whatever works to make yours the best.

We've talked a bit about FlexBook and how powerful they are, and that they're all customizable. We've talked about the adaptive practice, the simulations, and the PLIXes. These are all here. And they're active links, so that as you're at the adult ed site, you can go to learn more about each of these things and find the resources that you're interested in.

The ease of use does not end there. You can integrate your CK-12 with three of the most popular learning management systems. On this slide, you'll see Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology, full integration with CK-12. And you can see the students' grades show in your grade book. So that's cool.

Now let's see. I see a question. Oh, OK. We got that one. OK, if you use CK-12 with an integrated LMS, they don't need a separate CK-12 login. Yes, this is Katie's answer. And it is true. It's just right there. For the student, it's simple. And it just becomes part.

I used mine with my Google Classroom. And it put the lessons right into my Google Classroom. And the grades then just went right into the grade book. Very cool. All right.

These are testimonials from us. Got to listen. They're super great. We have students, administrators, and our very own Neda Anasseri, talking about the power of these textbooks as they've been used in adult education classrooms.

We're still going down that adult education page. So we're just scrolling down through it, and I'm just pointing out what's there. They're showing you that they have a YouTube channel. And here are three that you might need-- finding FlexBooks, insights for those FlexBooks, how to use them and what they really can do for you, and how to assign them to your class. But don't forget that you've still got the YouTube channel, which has many, many more videos that you can use.

The next thing that you'll hit is a question that they're asking you, "Are you an educator?" or "Are you a student?" Now, we're going to be an educator first and show you what they offer because what you're going to see-- when I first looked at CK-12, it was kind of overwhelming. It's kind of like being in a huge library, and you're just going, whoa, where do I start? How do I find things? What do I do?

They have helps everywhere. They want you to succeed. OK, so the first thing they talk about is the teacher assistant. And here's what it's going to look like. We are seeing outcomes. And so we've got time on task, we've got the skill level, the engagement, and the time that they've used on the lessons. And you can get those insights for the whole class. You can also get it for individual students.

Then one step even higher, is they give you recommendations. Sometimes I look at these charts because I've gone to some of the online places, and I've been thrilled with the information. But I didn't know what to do with it.

They'll say, "3 students in your class are doing exceptionally well. You may assign them the next concept." Or "Students with the low skill level seems to be struggling with prerequisite concepts." We recommend angles and lines and polygons. And the link's right there, so that you don't even have to go back and say, well, I don't know where that is. It's right there so that you can get it.

This is their heat map. And it shows you at a glance what people are struggling with. And we see that Theodore is having troubles with two-step equations. He's way down there at 20% and needs more help there.

Now, this is something they've just recently added because when you have troubles, and you ask CK-12 questions-- and I suggest you do that-- they will respond. And a lot of them will go to Katie. So she will be able to help you.

But they take and they see what people are asking questions about, and then they address it. And they realized that some people weren't sure about those heat maps or how to use those scores and those skill levels. And so they actually put in this, so that those questions are answered. And if you click on the question mark, this is what you're going to get.

They tell you exactly how to read the chart and what the modalities mean. Well, what's the difference between practice and quiz? Or, what's a "read"? Or, I don't understand RWA. That's the Real World Application. And they'll tell you the goal of that modality and what the scores mean. So you-- they're doing all the work, which is very nice because as a teacher, you really want to address the student's needs.

Now, they continue on. And the next question is, are you new to remote learning? Now, a couple of years back, we would all have said yes. Now we might feel like we're pros. But maybe we don't feel like pros. Maybe we could use some more help. So they're going to guide you in creating and connecting a class to the different ways that you can have an LMS, whether it's CK-12 because they will do it for you.

Let's say you don't have any of those. Well, that's OK. You'll create a class there at CK-12. And they will be your LMS. They will help you with all of things grading and recording and finding things.

Well, how do you find that FlexBook to start with? Now, just a little note. And I'll put it here. But it's a funny aside. When I was looking for cosmetology, if I typed in cosmetology, I didn't get what I thought of as cosmetology. CK-12 wasn't anticipating my question.

So I went to Google. And I wrote, cosmetology colon CK-12. And they found all the lessons for me. So don't forget Google. It's always useful. All right. And then they also teach you how to assign to students.

Taking a deeper dive, strategies for how to use these books, FlexLets. I fell in love with these. Remember how over one day we went from in-class, in-person to online? And we had to finish that quarter out online? I was worried that my students would fall behind.

And that's what the FlexLets were developed for. They are summaries for math and science of things that the students-- the skills that they might lose or might have lost. And for a lot of our adults, they're the same skills. So definitely check out the FlexLets. They're cool.

How to customize-- we won't have time to talk to you about how to. But we'd love to. Contact-- if there is a group of you or a school that want to work on customizing FlexBook for your school, OTAN's right there for you. We would love to come in. Last year we created a series of webinars on that very topic, taking you step by step how to customize your books to do what you want them to do.

And then also, getting started with Canvas and Schoology. They don't go into Google Classroom, here, because-- now this is my opinion, and Katie will correct me-- Google Classroom is really simple. You don't need your district involvement unless you have a district-required Google account. But that's for your Google Classroom.

Attaching the lessons from here-- CK-12-- to your Google Classroom, I never needed help. I just clicked on the buttons that they guided me through. Now, with Canvas and Schoology, it's a little more tricky because the district's involved. But they walk you through that, as well. So you can get that, too. All right.

Maybe you don't want that textbook. Maybe you just want something to make your classroom better. And so here's links to them, more resources, all just adaptive practice on topics. So you can pull out adaptive practice that you could just use to see where your students are, maybe start your class with that so you can kind of see what they're struggling with, or simulations in places.

Now, let's go back. Now we're going to be a student. And when I asked my grandson about this little character, he said it looked like an orange Chicklet, you know, those little gums. And I kind of thought that was cute.

But the student assistant is impressive in all the things that he helps you with. He's at the lower-left of the lesson screen. He provides immediate feedback to help the students learn the concepts. He answers students' questions, provides interactive examples. He tests students' learning by asking them questions at their skill level, and helps with assignments by offering hints, and recommendations, and reinforcement.

Even more, the tutor provides reminders of upcoming assignments or topics that need reviewing, or of unfinished student work. He's a personal tutor for each student. He can help them stay on track. And he even asks self-reflection questions about how you're doing and how can you improve. Pretty cool.

OK, this was my journey. I wanted math, basic math. And so I went to the Subjects and looked there. And that's where I found a book to begin with. And then I was able to zero in to a book. You can use the Subjects to explore. You can use Explore. You can also use the Search box. All of those are good ways to get started in searching for what you're looking for.

Now, once you find your resource, you can do some things with it to individualize it. I wasn't into rewriting a math lesson. That idea was way over my head. That was before.

But I found this one, and I thought this was going to be great for me. So what can I do now? Well, if you're using a CK-12 book, it's not going to say "high school equivalency." So give it a title. You can do that. You can change things to meet your needs and what you want. Maybe change the name to something simple that reflects your school.

But, OK, on this screen, on that green button that says Choose, when you click on the little arrow beside it, you can see that you can assign it right now. You can add it to your library, so that if you're looking for later and you're just gathering and putting the stuff in your cart, that's what that is. You can customize it. You can add it to a FlexBook 2.0 that you're already creating.

And this is where I told you, if you want to take just one lesson from one book, and add it to yours, this is the one you'd pick. You would then, they give you the list of the book you're creating, and then they just add it. You can share it with your class. And you can also download it as a PDF.

Sometimes in our rural areas or in our areas where internet is difficult, or with just some of our students and the needs that they have, this is very valuable to be able to do. But at the least, give it a name and change the image. The first book I did, I changed the image to a picture of Baldwin Park Adult School. And you can give the name something as simple as Mrs. Jensen's Math Course. So personalize it.

Now editing lessons, this-- a couple of things. First of all, on that screen where you see the 1, Introduction and the 2, Integers, those are chapters. And sometimes people get confused with thinking those are lessons. Chapters, what you're going to do with the chapter is you can change its name. You can delete it. You can move it.