Creative Ways to Use Jamboard

Jamboard is Google’s digital whiteboard that gives students a place to brainstorm and work collaboratively using drawing and writing tools, sticky notes, shapes, images, and more. This resource includes templates and activity ideas including annotations, photo comic strips, voting, pros and cons discussions, Top 10 Lists, and Four Corners.

Note-Taking: Research Round-Up

We all have our own half-baked ideas about what makes one note-taking approach better than another, but if we’re going to call ourselves professionals, we need to know what the research says…

How to Build a Better Slideshow

Far too many PowerPoints and other slideshow presentations (by students AND teachers) are suffering from some very fixable problems. Here are six things you can do to make your slideshows better….

Tech Tools for Mind Mapping

Graphic organizers, or “mind maps,” make thinking visual, organizing concepts in a way that shows how they are related. The tools presented here make it possible to create these organizers, or mind maps, with text, images, videos, and links to outside sources, making them a rich multimedia experience. They also allow multiple users to work on the same map simultaneously, even from different locations.

Sketchnoting

Sketchnotes are like one-pagers that you create on the fly, making your choices rapidly as you process information and get what really matters down onto your notes through a combination of pictures and words…

Lecture T-Chart

A Lecture T-Chart can be very useful to students by allowing them to review their notes and sum them up on the right-hand side of the T-chart using words or a Quick-Draw.

Picture Notes

Picture Notes can provide an excellent way for students to stop and process what they have learned. They are meant to accompany written notes, not to completely replace them. During selected pause points, students create a picture that illustrates the concepts being learned.

Model Cornell Notes

EQ: How do students use Cornell notes to record, revise, question, review, and summarize new information they are learning?