Insert learning is a web based tool that allows you to take any web based content and insert interactive pieces for the student. You can send students to a site or an article on a database and instruct them, for example, to read the third paragraph, record a video to preface the article, re-route them to a video or add multiple choice questions or a discussion board right to that page. Students can highlight and annotate on the text.
Insert learning is a free Chrome extension and would work well for Google schools. Special education teachers could easily modify reading assignments, guiding students through a text with tips or highlighting key parts. One could leave an article as a part of a sub plan, through Google classroom or Schoology, and include a video of himeself with some pre-teaching or drawing connections to a previous lesson. Teachers can add a question by choosing a premade question or creating their own. It’s a good idea to view as a student before you publish the link.
Free teacher accounts allow you to a have five Insert Learning documents at a time, so if you wanted more than that, you would need to have a paid account OR delete articles before starting a new one. This is worth looking into and trying out in your classroom or library, as it is free to start out with. For librarians, this would be a great way to walk students through a website and comment on its credibility and usability for a research project.
Here is an example of a webpage on the SAMR model that has been edited using Insert Learning:
A. Charland LIS 568 