I'll be trying something new this year with my students that I learned about at a district training this summer. With the CCSS and Depth of Knowledge wheel becoming a focus, a pretty excellent idea given was about "Interactive Notebooks". A real structure is given to the notes that our students take. Each right sided page in the notebook are the facts, or notes presented, and the left page opposite those notes are the reflection and interpretation with colored thought bubbles and drawings. The left side sounds like the fun side! Students personalize the notes. What do they think of the concept presented? Can they write a poem about the content given? Make a cartoon? Is this all new news, or is some of the note presentation familiar? When have you seen this concept before?
I decided to make an instructional video for students to follow when setting up their interactive notebooks. I'm taking the idea a step further, and asking students to make a virtual copy using the BookPress app on their iPads. The My ScansPro app can be used to scan into PDF form, the template pages for table of contents, index, and all the notes and reflections they take during the year.
The Book Press app gives an option to print and purchase completed student made notebooks and books.
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