Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Digital Interactive Student Notebooks


I am a huge composition notebook, scissors, Astrobright paper, and glue fan. Interactive Student Notebooks are my JAM! But it is 2020 and maybe it is time to go digital. The hubs definitely thinks so because he has told me every time he has moved me and ALL my supplies that there has to be a way to "put these on the computer!" So I did! 


It is hard to think about the scene above not happening in 2020 classrooms. Students with shared materials, in groups, with comfy seating doing math together won't be seen this year. I love the way students love their notebooks! I have shared starting notebooks with any fellow teacher that will listen!


Interactive notebooks keep everything organized, keep students engaged, are literally interactive, and I could go on and on! I even wrote a post about it here. When thinking about how to make all of this goodness DIGITAL, I knew the top priority was that it stayed INTERACTIVE. 


Enter Google Slides! I created pages in PowerPoint because I have to keep my fun fonts of course! Then added those images as a background on the slides. This will keep it from being clickable to students. Slides makes it easy to link to other slides in the presentation. It even changes the slide number for you when you add more slides. Impressive, Google! 


I used the space around the page to add in directions, videos and pieces for a drag and drop activity. You could put links to websites you want students to visit, collaborative slides and activities, anything you can think of! I do like that you can use all the color you want without worrying about printer ink! The list below are some ideas about how to make it interactive.

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITY IDEAS:
Collaborative Google Slides
Jamboard
Wheel of Names
Padlet
Quizlet
Drag and Drop Activities
Scavenger Hunts 
Escape Rooms (Slides)
Matching
Choice Boards

I have high hopes for the DIGITAL Interactive Notebook! I created a tutorial on setting one up and how to link things with some options. You will find a link below that to grab a copy of my example. Please copy and make it your own! I would love to see what you create!

 

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  1. This is perfect for this year! Thanks for the ideas! Where did you find (how did you make) the formatting of the actual notebook pages and tabs???

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    1. Jacqueline RichardsonAugust 1, 2020 at 7:11 PM

      Yay! You are so welcome! The notebook is an image search of "blank notebook lined" and same for the tabs, "divider tabs clipart." There are tons to choose from! I did add a white square to the notebook on some pages when the lines made it too busy. Hope that helps!

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