{"id":11520,"date":"2020-09-09T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kamiapp.com\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:37:06","slug":"using-kami-as-a-digital-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.kamiapp.com\/blog\/using-kami-as-a-digital-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Kami as a Digital Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Let\u2019s face it, traditional notebooks (or folders, or workbooks) have a lot of downsides. Pages, or even the whole book, can be lost, damaged, torn out, or simply neglected. Once completed, work in a physical book is also difficult to edit preventing further insights, feedback or peer interaction. And in today\u2019s world of hybrid or even fully digital teaching environments, physical books just don\u2019t cut it for giving fast feedback.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> So what\u2019s the solution? Kami based digital notebooks of course!\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Our Kami Heroes have been championing the ways you can create and maintain digital class notebooks using<\/span> Kami\u2019s functionality<\/a>. Special thank you to Alexander L. Samia, ELAR educator at Salyards Middle School for his excellent selection of explainer videos attached below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> First things first, how can you create notebooks for your students on Kami? Here are the steps:<\/span><\/p> 1. Create a front cover:<\/strong> Every notebook needs a cover and you can make yours as fun as you want. You can use separate graphics programs here (Alex uses Canva for its range of functionality and it has a good free version). Simply create your cover and save it as a PDF. Then open the PDF in Kami. An alternative would be to simply open a new blank document in Kami and get creative with the drawing and design tools to make a cover you love straight into Kami.<\/span><\/p> 2. Add pages:<\/strong> Once your front cover is in place you can create the pages of the book by simply clicking the plus icon at the bottom of your Kami screen. Choose from blank, lined, grid, or even music sheets!<\/span><\/p> <\/p> 3. Assign to your students:<\/strong> With your standard notebook now created you will need to assign it out to your students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> Now your students all have their own blank copy of their digital notebook.<\/span><\/p> Following the steps above you will have created and distributed your blank Kami notebooks to your students. Blank notebooks are great if what you want students to do is answer written form questions, write stories or simply take notes, but it\u2019s less good when it comes to filling in worksheets and completing premade exercises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> If you are in the very organized position of having all your notes and exercises (or the majority) that you wish to be included in your student\u2019s notebooks completed and ready prior to assigning them the book, you can quickly and easily add them in using the <\/span>Kami Split and Merge tool<\/a>.<\/p> 1. Save your premade notes into Google Drive or onto your computer:<\/strong> You can use scanned textbook pages, PDFs, or notes you have made digitally using Google Docs or even tools like Photoshop. Make sure they are all saved (separately or together) into your Google Drive or locally onto your computer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> 2. Open Kami\u2019s Split and Merge Tool:<\/strong> You can do this by clicking the button in the Kami app starting screen page, above your document options, OR in the Kami app menu bar, specifically the menu icon at the far right of your screen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> 3. Select the files you want to combine into your student notebook:<\/strong> Once into the Split and Merge Tool you can select all the files you wish to include in your student notebooks from either Google Drive or your computer files. Remember to include your front cover if you have made one!<\/span><\/p> 4. Rearrange your pages to make the perfect order:<\/strong> Once you have all your notes added click the <\/span>Next <\/b>button. The next screen allows you to rearrange, duplicate, rotate, or even delete pages – so you can create the perfect notebook.<\/span><\/p> 5. Export your file:<\/strong> When you are finished arranging click the Export all button. From there you can choose to download the file locally, into your Google Drive or open it straight into Kami.<\/span><\/p> 6. Assign to your students:<\/strong> With your standard notebook now created you will need to assign it out to your students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> And there you have it, a digital Kami notebook full of premade notes assigned to your students.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>Creating student notebooks in Kami<\/h5>
Creating digital Kami notebooks with premade notes<\/h5>