Shared Digital Classroom Notes

     Many of my students struggled in the first semester of my world history class this year. Even though I allow notes to be used on all my tests as an accommodation many of them were still struggling to find the information on the note sheets they were filling out.  I decided I would summarize the important points of each day in class as we discussed the concepts, and then have two stationary laptops always set up in my room for students to use and take notes during class. Each day two different students sit at the laptops and are responsible for taking the class notes for this lesson. This puts positive peer pressure on students when they take notes on those day because the class i s depending on them. It also helps the students that are absent or transfer into your class. When we are done with each chapter I will print out all the notes and give each student their own copy. I started off the first few days by modeling with them how to take notes. (spacing, numbering, using different colors) I am also being very specific and telling them what to put down at the beginning with the hopes of gradually releasing responsibility to them in note taking. I would share the Google doc but it is on our own school Google network and can't be viewed outside of it. Here is a screen shot of it.