Outlining & Summarizing
Outlining and summarizing is an activity designed to push students to identify main ideas or concepts, then find supporting ideas or related concepts and deeper learning. Then, they put everything into their own words.
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Digital Tools to Support Outlining & Summarizing
Google Drawings
Google Drawings allow students to organize their thoughts into categories for identifying main ideas, supporting ideas, and making connections to dig deeper. It's an online tool to help users create images, charts, posters, and other drawing needs. Similar to other Google tools, you can collaborate with others, publish online, or download an image file. Google Drawings works great with other Google tools such as creating a chart to place into Google Docs. You can create a Google Drawing in your Drive by clicking +New --> More --> Google Drawings.
Canva
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. It has loads of premade, editable templates to use, or you can create your own activities, presentations, posters, videos, concept maps, logos, and more. Create your own classroom and share templates with teachers and students in Canva, or download your creation and place it in Canvas. Canva is collaborative. The website works well on student Chromebooks and there's an app for iOS and Android devices too.
Digital Sketchnoting
Sketchnoting is a great way to organize your thoughts. It's a visual form of note taking where students draw or doodle their thoughts, observations, outline and organize, and summarize. Sketchnoting helps retain information, increases focus, promotes creative thinking, is a calming activity, and helps students connect ideas and see big picture ideas.
