The Efficacy of Digital Notebooks

The Efficacy of Digital Notebooks

Rebecca O'Leary

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How are you feeling?

(add 1-9 in the chat)

Open Ended

What do you expect to be the different needs of the various learners in your class(es)? What are you currently doing/planning to do to support all your students? (Think students: learning English, with IEPs, processing trauma. . .)

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Would you like to take a moment and discuss this in breakout rooms or would you prefer to continue?

• breakout rooms

• continue

• I would like a few people to share with the whole group.

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Why did you choose to come to this session? What do you hope to get from today’s work?

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What was this last year like for you? What was particularly challenging about teaching/living during the pandemic?

Poll

Would you like to take a moment and discuss this in breakout rooms or would you prefer to continue?

• breakout rooms

• continue

• I would like a few people to share with the whole group.

Open Ended

What was a success you had last year? What do you want to remember to inform your teaching this coming year?

Poll

Would you like to take a moment and discuss this in breakout rooms or would you prefer to continue?

• breakout rooms

• continue

• I would like a few people to share with the whole group.

Open Ended

In what ways could using a digital notebook help you and/or your students? If known, what is a unit will you be teaching this year that could benefit from a digital notebook?

Breakout Rooms!

• Silent with Chat

• Learn a Skill (e.g. edit theme, link slides)

• Jigsaw Notebooks

• Grade Level / Department Collab

• . . .

Open Ended

What questions do you still have about making a digital notebook? How can you get answers to your questions?

Open Ended

Are you interested in making a digital notebook for next year? Why or why not? If you plan to use a digital notebook next year, what are your next steps?

Feedback

• format (allowing for asynchronous review)

• general (clarity, delivery, pacing, usefulness)

Poll

Was it distracting seeing video icons for later asynchronous review?

• yes

• no

• kind of

Poll

Was it more distracting or more helpful having extra text on the slides?

• more distracting

• more helpful

Open Ended

Please let me know any additional feedback you might have in regards to our time today: things that went well, things that could have gone better / would have been more helpful . . .