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Engaging Students with Digital Interactive Notebooks

Digital Interactive Notebooks are an amazing way to help engage students in the learning process while creating personalized notes with content that is meaningful to them on an individual basis. Teachers can custom create notebooks to help guide students through project based learning, specific units of study or for tracking personal goals.

 Check out this 2nd grade example for a unit on plants to get an idea of how one might look.


The digital interactive notebook can act as a compilation of hyperlinked content like video and digital articles, combined with note taking strategies and student created digital products that demonstrate key understandings. 

 If used with tools like Google Classroom, teachers can check in on work and insert comments throughout to give feedback and help guide students in deeper understanding. As students grow accustomed to the model, teachers can gradually release creation of the notebook over to the students to choose their own note taking strategies, video and articles to help solidify meaning.

 Want to know how to get started with digital notebooks? Check out this Digital Interactive Notebook for step by step directions and activity ideas:

Get your own copy of the notebook [here]

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  1. Nanci GreeneJune 22, 2018 at 3:00 PM

    Great use of digital notebooks! I am presenting a session on Google Slides at several conferences this fall and plan to link to this post in my presentation as a resource.

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