Digital Learning Day Project

Extending the learning environment

(Total Points = 200 See the details at the end of the page.)
This activity packet will serve as an independent study of the topic of Digital Learning
Days. Follow the steps below to gain a deeper understanding of various options for
Digital Learning Day activities.

First, make a copy of this form and save it in your Google Docs folder. Add your name
as part of the new title. When completed, you will share a copy of your document and
your final project with your professor.

Part 1: Gaining a deeper understanding

Step 1: So, why do we need Digital Learning Day plans? Review at least two of the
articles below and provide your response in the Reflection section. The images are linked to
the specific article.

7 Benefits of 10 Benefits and E-learning Becomes

Online Learning 10 Concerns Snow Day Alternative

Reflection:
I think that these days in education are more important than ever due to this rapid transition to
digital learning and adaptation. I have learned that schools have been increasing their ability
to provide students with take-home laptops to their students to allow for digital learning days.
It does take a lot of requirements such as the laptops, insurance to the internet at home, a
learning management system, clearly defined expectations, and most importantly practice. All
of these things are important because these factors will affect student learning.

Step 2: What do the experts say? How do you transition to Online learning?
Review a minimum of three articles to gather information and strategies for setting up an
online learning environment for your students. Images are linked to the specific sites.
Step 3: Terms to support your learning experience. Images are linked to specific sites.

Learning Management Personalized Learning Design Thinking:

System (LMS) A Problem Solving Framework

Reflection:
I chose the video about the personalized learning module. I chose this video because I
wanted to learn about how to create personalized learning for my students within a larger
classroom and grade level curriculum. I feel as though this is important for digital learning
days because the students might not all learn the same way at home as they would in school.
I feel like this video will help me to keep my project balanced by ensuring that the content can
be student-paced and to help them be engaged with the material.

Part 2: Designing your Digital Learning Day project.

Step 1: Identify your standard(s). Select a standard that would support a 3-4 day
learning experience. You may even involve standards from other content areas once you
begin to design your project. Students will be allowed to work at their own pace.

MGSE4.G.1 Draw points, lines, line

segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse),
and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify
Image is linked to GaDOE
these in two-dimensional figures.
MGSE4.G.2 Classify two-dimensional figures
based on the presence or absence of parallel
or perpendicular lines, or the presence or
absence of angles of a specified size.
Recognize right triangles as a category, and
identify right triangles

Step 2: Collect and/or create materials to support the learning

activity. This serves as a time for you to identify a variety of materials to support the UDL
principles - reaching the marginal learners within your class. Find a variety of resources to
support your learners: video, audio, interactive sites, games, articles and websites for
researching information, assessment tools, etc.

- Nearpod is the main source of the activity.

- I would provide all the materials on a classroom blog for students who would
want to do their homework with pencil and paper.
 - Embedded games
- https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/li
ne_shoot.htm
- http://www.math-play.com/Tic-Tac-Toe-Game-Classifying-Angles/Tic-
Tac-Toe-Game-Classifying-Angles_html5.html
- https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/geometry/shapeshoot/S
ymmetryLinesShapesShoot.htm

Step 3: Assessments? What resources and/or tools will you use within your project
to provide feedback to students? What formative assessments do you plan to use for this
project? What summative assessment do you plan to have in place? If your summative is a
final project, you will discuss that in the next step. (Socrative, Kahoot!, GimKit, Flippity,
Flipgrid, online games, GooseChase, etc.)

- Formative assessments:
- Open ended questions
- Digital collaboration
- Online worksheets
- Quizzes

Step 4: Final assessment (your ultimate goal for this activity).

Discuss what students will be doing to demonstrate mastery of the standard(s) being
addressed in your project. This is a great time to “bump up” the Bloom’s level!

The summative assessment for this lesson would be a cumulative quiz/test over the
content of the lessons. It could be answered orally or on a digital submission if paper
and pencil does not work for a student.

Step 5: BUILD your project. For this activity, you will design a Digital Learning Day
project for your students. This activity should provide enough work to address a 3-4 day
school closing. Be sure to verify with your School District’s policies to help you design an
appropriate project (topic and time required) for the project.

Nearpod Wakelet HyperDocs Choice Boards

Coronavirus support

Updates/New tools

Nearpod links:
Day 1: https://share.nearpod.com/Pjo1N9zVT5
Day 2: https://share.nearpod.com/qYvrsuLg75
Day 3: https://share.nearpod.com/UaloKtgy75
 Step 6: Submit your project for evaluation.
1. Provide your professor with a “Shared Link” to this document.

2. Set up your Online Learning page within your Weebly. Be creative, but make
sure the following items are on your page:
● Two paragraph overview discussing the value of Digital Learning Days
within the learning environment, your views and expectations for Digital
Learning Day projects, or any other thoughts you would like to share
about your project. Hopefully, some of the informational activities you
completed above will help you provide this overview. What steps will you
take to promote FERPA, CIPA, and COPPA regulations? Do you feel
this is a method you might use for your “Sick Day Substitute Folder”
activities? Working through this activity to create a Digital Learning
project, have you acquired a different view toward the value of online
learning?
● Image of the product you selected to help present the Digital Learning
Day project to your students and a short overview of that tool.
● Embed, link, or use a screenshot to provide access to the Digital
Learning Day project you completed.

Step 7: Reflective Practice

After completing this digital learning day project, I have come to appreciate the
ability that teachers have when they are in classrooms, face-to-face with their
students.I have learned how to utilize different sources and different applications to
fully engage my students when I am not able to be with them. I have seen the benefit
in having some of the premium tools that programs such as nearpod offer to
educators. I find that having digital learning days could also be utilized as plans for
substitute teachers. This would help them to structure their days and to be sure that
students do not fall behind in their curriculum when the teacher is not present. With
current situations such as what we currently face today with Covid-19, we now more
than ever, see the need for learning and educating to be conducted from home.

Project Points: 200 points total (All elements of the project should follow the basic elements
required through APA guidelines. Projects should be attractive and easy to navigate.)
175 points - overall project
● Standard(s) addressed (you may even have several standards for this project. Think of the
various content areas you will address. Do some “Content-Smashing” to enhance your activities.)
● A variety of resources are used to present the information (audio, video, websites, games,
tutorials, quizzes, etc.)
● Students are given voice and choice throughout the project.
 ● Enough resources are provided to allow a 3-4 day study of the standard(s).
● Assessments are provided throughout the project - formative and summative.
● If the summative assessment is a project, students are given the opportunity to select the
tool/method for their final class presentation. If necessary, a rubric is provided to support the
creation of the final project.
● The overall design/layout of the Digital Learning Day project is attractive and easy to follow.
25 points - Weebly page
● Reflective overview of the project (minimum two paragraphs)
● Image to showcase the product used to implement the Digital Learning Day project (Nearpod,
Wakelet, HyperDocs, Choice Boards, Other).
● Short overview of the product selected and a short discussion as to why you selected that
product.
● A link, embedded code, or linked screenshot to provide access to the Digital Learning Day
project.