Create a notebook, Add up to 50 resources central to your work, and NotebookLM instantly becomes an expert on the information that matters most to you.

Educator Uses: 

• Curriculum Development: NotebookLM can streamline the creation of lesson plans, study guides, quizzes, and other teaching materials by quickly processing and synthesizing information from various sources. Upload your syllabus and then brainstorm ideas for assignments 

• Personalized Learning Experiences: Educators can tailor learning materials to specific student needs by uploading relevant documents and leveraging the tool's content generation features.

• Research Assistant: Teachers can use NotebookLM to quickly summarize research articles, extract key information, and generate insights for their professional development.

• Creating Cross Walks or Cross-Curricular Units: Upload various standards to make comparisons or draw 

Source Grounding with inline citation:  NotebookLM will draw from the sources you provide for more accurate AI responses 

Include up to 50 sources per notebook: Including Drive files, PDF, Text File, Copied Text, Web page URL, Markdown File

Time Saving: Save enormous amounts of time analyzing, comparing, and drawing connections between various related sources.

Ready Made Notes: Click the 'Notebook Guide' button to automatically generate an FAZ, Study Guide, Table of Contents, Timeline, or Briefing Doc

References:  All NotebookLM responses will tie back to one of your sources and show exactly where in the source the information is drawn from

Summarization: Automaticly summarizes and pulls key topics from sources

Analyze Visual Elements: NotebookLM can analyze visual elements such as charts and diagrams within the sources provided.

Idea Generation: Use it to spark creativity and new insights.

Collaborative:  Share notebooks with others on the same Google Domain for collaborative projects

Content is NOT used to train the model, but may be reviewed by human reviewers.

Large Context Window: Uses Google Pro 1.5 which has an enormously large context window, allowing for very large data sets

Age Restrictions: Currently only available for ages 18+

Domain Restrictions: Early Access Apps must be allowed by your domain's Google Administrator to use it on your school domain

File type restrictions: Currently, can not use images or complex charts and tables as sources.

Experimental: NotebookLM is still considered experimental so its future is uncertain. However, Google has announced several recent updates so its future looks bright.

Data Restrictions: NotebookLM only draws from the information you provide in your sources.  It does not pull from the Internet.

Potential for Mistakes: While NotebookLM should be less prone to inaccuracies or hallucinations because it is pulling from a finite data set provided by the user and includes inline citations, there is always the potential that any AI will make mistakes.  

Create a Notebook:

Get started at notebooklm.google & Sign in with your Google account.

• Click on the "Try NotebookLM" button to access the NotebookLM interface. 

• Click on the "New Notebook" button to create a new notebook. 

• Give the notebook a descriptive title related to the specific topic or subject.

Uploading Sources and Generating a Notebook Guide

• Click on the "Add Source" button to upload relevant source documents, including PDFs, text files, and Google Docs. 

• The tool can handle a variety of document formats but is currently unable to process images, videos, audio, or complex charts and tables. 

• Upon adding a source, NotebookLM automatically generates a "Source Guide." [13]

• Each Source Guide provides a concise summary of the document's key points, topics, and potential research questions based on its content. 

Asking Questions and Getting Answers

• Use the chat interface to ask specific questions related to the uploaded source documents. 

• NotebookLM analyzes the sources and provides well-structured, synthesized answers directly referencing the source material. 

• Hovering over the citation numbers reveals the exact passages from the sources that support the generated response. 

Creating and Utilizing Notes 

• Pin important responses from the chat to create saved notes for later reference. 

• Click on the "Add Note" button to manually write down thoughts, ideas, or summaries related to the notebook's topic. 

• Select multiple notes and utilize the "Combine to Note" feature to merge them into a single comprehensive note.

• Leverage the "Create Outline" feature to generate a structured framework based on selected notes. 

1. Podcast on NC's AI Guidelines (go.ncdpi.gov/AI_Guidelines) https://drive.google.com/file/d/16K-DM2qhvZpWKHe-OuufUj1UJvlce0bX/view?usp=drive_link 

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3.  Podcast on Common Sense Media "2024: The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Dawn of the AI Era"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sofuUJ7GACMRU89TxZe-486o2kLPoY2K/view?usp=drive_link

4. Podcast on UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D7qsKNqdyzMHkywbFPzRi32D94yRb3i3/view?usp=drive_link 

5. OpenAI Project Strawberry Update announcement

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lcXZOfMuTJkcpKNJvuSCx1AQoYz_jv7b/view?usp=drive_link 

6. Thomas Paine's Common Sense & US Declaration of Independence

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vpl9tIn_JV2YtfunrbncoFtFN6spod6n/view?usp=drive_link 

7. The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12jNrWbvWHwfKox4AsK8tjnaWmJc1EZlu/view?usp=drive_link 

1. Create a new Notebook.

2. Add file (s)

3. Click 'Deep Dive Conversation' and wait (takes several minutes)

4. Listen and learn!

NOTE-  At this time, the podcast will not save, so it will not be there when you return to your notebook.

Hint- Click 3 dots/more and download to save it as a .wav file.