Summarizing and Note-taking:
Enhance students' ability to synthesize information and distill it into a concise new form. Students can collaborate with various technology tools to create projects that summarize text and to take notes. Teachers can use these tools as a different way to present content! Click on the buttons or examples below to access the websites and start creating!
Enhance students' ability to synthesize information and distill it into a concise new form. Students can collaborate with various technology tools to create projects that summarize text and to take notes. Teachers can use these tools as a different way to present content! Click on the buttons or examples below to access the websites and start creating!
Add notes, summary statements or links to a back channel like Today's Meet.
Take notes or summarize text in flashcards created with Quizlet. (iPad app or website)
Take notes or summarize reading with a blog or with comments on others' blogs using Kidblog.
Use a photo editing tool like Pic Collage (iPad) or piZap and Pixlr on the web to summarize the content or define terms. Google Drawing could also be used for this type of task (see below for more on Google Drawing).
Take notes or define words with a mindmap like Popplet (iPad or website). You can add images or links.
Haiku Deck is a great tool for both iPad and web browser to create stunning slide deck. This could be used to summarize or review content. Limited characters forces students to write more concise statements.
Human Influence - Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires
Use a Word Cloud to summarize text visually. Students can get the "gist" of the text prior to reading. Great way to introduce a reading assignment too, or to compare two pieces of text.
iPad apps:
Word Cloud, Cloudart, TagCloud, WordPack
Word Cloud, Cloudart, TagCloud, WordPack
Thinkglink is a great tool for sharing content knowledge. Students can add links, videos, images or just text.
Padlet is a collaborative "cork board" for notes. Students can add images, links, videos, or text. Ask students to summarize some text or create an analogy and post it to your wall.
Students can use Google Docs to take their own notes or collaborate on notes using Documents and Presentations. Google Docs also allows students to add images and links to make their notes more content-rich and meaningful. Students can import images and annotate them using Drawings, as well as create graphic organizers or illustrations to summarize their learning. See the images below for a "comic" and a Vocabulary task using Google Drawings.
There are also great iPad apps for note taking that students can use to learn and build academic vocabulary. These include Notability, Penultimate, Skitch, Notes+, Note, Notes HD or TopNotes. The following example used Notability. (image CC0 Public Domain, pixabay.com)