Ever find yourself coming up with an ingenious example or application of the material you are lecturing to your students right on the spot? As I am only in my first few years of teaching, this happens to me quite a bit. I think of a great example that I really want to share and would love for my students to remember but unfortunately, I have learned the sad lesson that if it isn't on the screen, my students won't write it down. I decided to use Classroom Scribe strategy developed by Darren Kuropatwa to immortalize my on-the-spot nuggets of gold forever in a set of class notes.
I utilized two Apps in my implementation of the classroom scribe approach, GoogleDocs and Notability. All of my students have school issued iPads that come pre-loaded with both of these apps.
To begin, I told my students to open up a new note in Notability to start the section on the Digestive System. In addition to their own personal notes, I explained that I would like just one volunteer to record the extra examples and explanations that I gave on a shared GoogleDoc:
The student who volunteered got the extra perk that they did not have to record the presentation notes for that day and I would send them a copy of the notes after class.
I made the class notes available for the entire class to view by posting it in the "About" section of their GoogleClassroom page:
I encouraged the class to split their ipad screen so that they could view the class note GoogleDoc as they were recording their own notes in Notability. This is what that looks like from a students ipad:
Currently, the class notes are only available for members of the classroom to view but I do hope to someday spread this out to the internet community and hopefully have as much success as Darren Kuropatwa!
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