First off, I apologize for the length, but I really wanted to talk about what I did and why I did it because I am actually pretty proud of this project and the work that I put in it. Also, detailing my thought process and what steps I did might help me when I come back to this when I am teaching to make creating something similar to this easier on myself.
Last week, I made the Jeopardy game on Google Slides. That was something that was completely created by the teacher. This week, I wanted to focus on something that students would be able to use to create and produce their own work in the classroom. I plan to teach secondary science so I chose to create an interactive notebook for students to organize and display their work. I chose to change the slide format to an 8.5 x 11 size to imitate a real notebook format and to make it easier to print if students chose to print out some of the slides to make it easier for them or to display their work in a different format.
The first page I created was the Title Page. The first thing I did was to add the Title of "Life Science Interactive Notebook". This is designed for a 7th grade Life Science class but it could easily be adapted to be for a Biology class or another science class. The bottom has a section for students to add their name and the class period that they are in. I would use this page to show students how (and why) to change font to be the most readable depending on what background or image is being used. I would then show students how to replace the background image if they chose to. They would have the option to keep it if they love the tortoise as much as I do. This page really does not function to do anything but create a nice beginning for the student to present their work in the class.
The second page in the slideshow is the Table of Contents page. The listed contents link to the slides that they correspond with. I will have linked the first couple of assignments (slides) in the interactive notebook, but as the semester went on and students added more slides and especially as the notebooks differentiated based on students' interests, abilities, and what they chose to produce, their table of contents may end up looking vastly different. On this page, I also added a banner image. I would show students how to crop their images after they are resized to fit the page. I actually just learned to double click an image to crop it so definitely passing along that little trick. I would then show them how to link the information in the table of contents to the slides. I am sure that I will have to re-teach that once they are at the point of creating their own slides and adding to the table of contents completely on their own.
The third page that I created was a page for students to introduce themselves and their interests. For this page, I would need to show the teachers how to take a snapshot, delete the current text box, and paste the snapshot onto the page. Another feature of this slide (and all of the slides that come after this one) is that, in the top right corner, are the letters TOC which stands for the table of contents and links back to the table of contents slide. I may try to change that to be a picture that will link back to the table of contents instead. As with the last slide, the picture that serves as a banner at the top of the page can be left alone or changes based on student preference.
The next 3 slides consist of a template for a lab report. The idea that I have for an initial lab to guide students through applying the scientific method is to do a lab that measures heart rate, most likely through exercise, hence the dumbbells banner on these pages. Each section is separated into a text box and has directions on what to add in each section. We would have to go over adding tables, graphs, charts, etc. to communicate data as the students work on the lab. The idea is that, as students get more comfortable completing experiments and recording data, we would move away from using templates and the students would construct their reports completely on their own.
The final slide that I created was the most basic that I did. It's simple made using the title template for slides. I gave it a title, a banner, and put in basic directions. For this slide,
student would create a poster, infographic, or some other visual presentation of information what was learned about atoms and molecules. The only unique feature of this slide is that in the title I added a highlighting color so that the words would be readable on an alternating light and dark background. So, I would show students where that option is and explain when it would be used.
Overall, despite how time consuming the creation of the basic templates of this interactive notebook is (keeping templates and ideas saved to use later will help minimize that, I think) and and how much planning will need to go into coming up with ideas and carrying out experiments and projects, it really is something that I would see using in class. I like the idea of portfolios as a record of student progress, and this is the scientific equivalent of an English portfolio, for instance. I could see including essays, artwork, video presentations, and audio presentations in this format as well. It is something that I can easily look through for each student to grade larger assignments and it is automatically saved so that each section can be referred back to or revisited to make corrections and have re-graded, if necessary. It is also a great resource to show any administrators or parents that are interested in how students or progressing or what is being done in the classroom.
Resources:
I found the idea while browsing the Ditch that Textbook site, but when I looked for exmples that I liked, I really did not find what I was looking for. So, I decided to look elsewhere in Google and I found a YouTube video showing a how to create a interactive notebook in Google Slides. I stole the idea of an introduction page with a snapshot included and linking back to the Table of Contents page from each slide from that video (linking to the pages I had already planned on doing from using the Jeopardy game, but it showed how to link on that video as well).
Lee, David. (20 January 2016) Intro to STEM Digital Interactive Notebook (Google Slides). David Lee EdTech. YouTube. Online. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-x2mwlnO4
matt. (20 April 2018) How to Save a Slide from Google Slides as a Picture. Solve Your Tech. Online. Retrieved from: https://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-save-a-slide-from-google-slides-as-a-picture/
Miller, Matt. (28 February 2019) Google Slides Interactive Notebook + 20 Activities to Fill Them. Ditch That Textbook. Online. Retrieved from: http://ditchthattextbook.com/google-slides-interactive-notebooks-20-activities-to-fill-them/
Last week, I made the Jeopardy game on Google Slides. That was something that was completely created by the teacher. This week, I wanted to focus on something that students would be able to use to create and produce their own work in the classroom. I plan to teach secondary science so I chose to create an interactive notebook for students to organize and display their work. I chose to change the slide format to an 8.5 x 11 size to imitate a real notebook format and to make it easier to print if students chose to print out some of the slides to make it easier for them or to display their work in a different format.
The first page I created was the Title Page. The first thing I did was to add the Title of "Life Science Interactive Notebook". This is designed for a 7th grade Life Science class but it could easily be adapted to be for a Biology class or another science class. The bottom has a section for students to add their name and the class period that they are in. I would use this page to show students how (and why) to change font to be the most readable depending on what background or image is being used. I would then show students how to replace the background image if they chose to. They would have the option to keep it if they love the tortoise as much as I do. This page really does not function to do anything but create a nice beginning for the student to present their work in the class.
The next 3 slides consist of a template for a lab report. The idea that I have for an initial lab to guide students through applying the scientific method is to do a lab that measures heart rate, most likely through exercise, hence the dumbbells banner on these pages. Each section is separated into a text box and has directions on what to add in each section. We would have to go over adding tables, graphs, charts, etc. to communicate data as the students work on the lab. The idea is that, as students get more comfortable completing experiments and recording data, we would move away from using templates and the students would construct their reports completely on their own.
The final slide that I created was the most basic that I did. It's simple made using the title template for slides. I gave it a title, a banner, and put in basic directions. For this slide,
Overall, despite how time consuming the creation of the basic templates of this interactive notebook is (keeping templates and ideas saved to use later will help minimize that, I think) and and how much planning will need to go into coming up with ideas and carrying out experiments and projects, it really is something that I would see using in class. I like the idea of portfolios as a record of student progress, and this is the scientific equivalent of an English portfolio, for instance. I could see including essays, artwork, video presentations, and audio presentations in this format as well. It is something that I can easily look through for each student to grade larger assignments and it is automatically saved so that each section can be referred back to or revisited to make corrections and have re-graded, if necessary. It is also a great resource to show any administrators or parents that are interested in how students or progressing or what is being done in the classroom.
Resources:
I found the idea while browsing the Ditch that Textbook site, but when I looked for exmples that I liked, I really did not find what I was looking for. So, I decided to look elsewhere in Google and I found a YouTube video showing a how to create a interactive notebook in Google Slides. I stole the idea of an introduction page with a snapshot included and linking back to the Table of Contents page from each slide from that video (linking to the pages I had already planned on doing from using the Jeopardy game, but it showed how to link on that video as well).
Lee, David. (20 January 2016) Intro to STEM Digital Interactive Notebook (Google Slides). David Lee EdTech. YouTube. Online. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL-x2mwlnO4
matt. (20 April 2018) How to Save a Slide from Google Slides as a Picture. Solve Your Tech. Online. Retrieved from: https://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-save-a-slide-from-google-slides-as-a-picture/
Miller, Matt. (28 February 2019) Google Slides Interactive Notebook + 20 Activities to Fill Them. Ditch That Textbook. Online. Retrieved from: http://ditchthattextbook.com/google-slides-interactive-notebooks-20-activities-to-fill-them/
Knowledge Constructor! Explaining out the steps for your on purposes as well as for the blog post helps demonstrate your depth of knowledge. Reflecting your process and describing how students will use the template and even progress through stages using the template connect your project to classroom application...Innovative Designer. Shaping all of this to met the needs of your class and your curriculum shows you are an Empowered Learner. Adding the screen shots was very helpful.
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