1. Digital Interactive Notebooks for Learning Asynchronously
Logan Rath

2. About EDI728 Critical Literacy B-12 Part of MS Ed. in Literacy
Fully asynchronous class, 15 weeks
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3. Interactive Notebook
“Interactive Notebooks in which students record information about content-related material … can include Cornell notes, questions, drawings, webs, charts, and so on. Students can paste graphic organizers or other learning tools into their notebooks.” (p. 184)
Moss, B., & Loh-Hagan, V. (2016). 40 strategies for guiding readers through informational texts. Retrieved from
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4. Example Prompts Reading comprehension Notes from sources Reflections
Bullet journal-style entries
Anything else you can imagine
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5. Three Products
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6. 1: Google Drive Teacher Folder Student Folders Share link with class
Make sure students can’t edit documents.
Number each document sequentially.
Student Folders
Create folder
Share folder with professor
Copy prompts to folder and complete
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7. 2: Google Classroom Students join the class
Teacher assigns the document
Students complete and hit submit
Teacher can grade in Classroom
FREE for GAFE campuses
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8. 3: OneNote Class Notebook
Add students to the notebook
Teacher adds pages to student notebook
Collaborative area
Included with Office 365
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9. Notebook Setup Create a notebook Get email roster from Blackboard
Use Class Notebook icon to set up
Access through OneNote
Add-in available for desktop client
Get roster from Blackboard
Invite students
Place link in Blackboard menu
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10. Example Page
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11. Using Tabs _Teacher Only _Content Library _Collaboration Space
Only the teacher can edit/see
_Content Library
All students can see, only teacher can edit
_Collaboration Space
All students can edit
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12. My Workflow
Create new activities in that week’s folder (in _Teacher Only space)
Every Monday distribute new pages to students
Informal checks weekly
Formal notebook grade at end of course
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13. Thoughts It worked.  I’d use it again. And I am.
Students liked it (at least they said they did in an anonymous survey).
Content exists outside of Blackboard.
It’s a tool they might use as teachers.
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14. Logan Rath lrath@Brockport.edu
Questions?
Logan Rath
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