Do you have your students annotate their readings? I was frustrated by their randomness and lack of connection to previous work or knowledge. I will share my assignments from this week where I hope they improve their note-taking.

Lisa Meyers   This is something I'm trying to work on with my students as well in 9th grade.  I upload a reading and have them annotate with the Kami app (embedded with Google Classroom).  I also use these simple instructions and rubric to help them along, and then I also provide an exemplar or will model it in class with a short reading. 

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Angela Lee Do your students have Chromebooks? I love this idea of utilizing Kami, but am worried they won't have the ability to annotate legibly using the trackpad on the Chromebook.

They are actually not - most of them use Macbook Airs, and we are 1-to-1 BYOD.  I'm not sure why the trackpads on Chromebooks are so terrible, but I can see your concern using Kami.  However, Kami also includes typing text, or just highlighting (straight, not freehand), so that might mitigate the issue. 

They are actually not - most of them use Macbook Airs, and we are 1-to-1 BYOD.  I'm not sure why the trackpads on Chromebooks are so terrible, but I can see your concern using Kami.  However, Kami also includes typing text, or just highlighting (straight, not freehand), so that might mitigate the issue.