Session Description

Experience how Office Lens app, OneNote, can facilitate a paperless learning environment that enhances core content instruction.

We will also take a look at other exciting apps and websites that can facilitate going paperless.

Group Activity

In your small group, explore one of the following resources. Try to explore as many as you can before time is up. Spend no more than 10 minutes at each.

1. Going Paperless with Google Docs: Explore how you can go paperless with Google Docs! Google Drive has unlimited storage for videos, files, and other stuff.
2. Video-based Note-Taking: Take a look at these tools for students and/or teachers to annotate videos.
3. Nearpod and More: This information rich Nearpod presentation serves as yet another way to go paperless.
4. Seesaw for Collecting and Sharing Student Work: You will also want to explore Seesaw as another approach to quickly capture and share student work.
5. Facilitate Video Reflection: Try solutions like Flipgrid (or Let's Recap) to facilitate video reflection/idea sharing.
6. Online News: Take advantage of online news sources to help students work with a variety of media, as well as discuss "fake news."

Instructions

• Work with a partner to look at some of the tools we've discussed today, as well as a few others.
• Identify which TWO would be best in YOUR classrooms.
• Be prepared to share why they are better than others. Keep it short, to the point.
• Each group should be able to share ONE favorite text to speech tool and any other tool (e.g. readability) and why each works best in YOUR situation.

Share Out

Record your favorite digital tools (two per group) via Flipgrid here - flipgrid.com/e513ca

Note: If on mobile device using the Flipgrid app, use the code e512ca