Google Keep

THE WHY

Google Keep Links to an external site. is a notepad of digital sticky notes that allows you to create multimedia notes, reminders, and checklists. It can be used to support creativity, facilitate communication and collaboration. Users can curate and organize ideas, research, or resources for a project or investigation, and easily provide timely feedback on Google Docs or Slides. 

Students can use Keep to categorize information. They can use notes to develop a logical argument and synthesize ideas.  It provides an opportunity to teach students about copyright and develop digital literacy skills.

THE WHAT

Learning Outcomes

1. Instructors and students (as age appropriate) will create, share, and manage notes.
2. Instructors and students (as age appropriate) will curate content using the Google Keep Chrome extension.

Classroom Application

1. When researching and curating resources, you and your students can use the Google Chrome extension to save links to webpages and capture text.
2. You and your students can access their Google Keep Notepad while creating a doc or slide.
3. While providing feedback on another person's doc or slide, you and your students can access the Google Keep Notepad and drag/copy/paste text or images/stickers onto the doc or slide or add to a comment. 
4. The EDU in 90: Google Keep in the Classroom video Links to an external site. provides some additional ways you can use it for audio feedback, annotating images, exit tickets, and more.
5. Using Google Keep for Grading Comments in Docs Links to an external site.
6. Reminders and Learning Goals: Adding images to lists and notes can help students visually recognize information faster and add some fun and personality to their Google Keep notepad. Students could organize their notes by class, daily tasks, learning goals, etc. See Kasey's 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment Links to an external site. for details on this and more.

THE HOW

Use these resources to learn about Google Keep, watching and reading just what you need to implement Google Keep in your lessons.

10 Ways Google Keep can Streamline Your Life at School

Additional Resources

• The Google Keep Cheat Sheet by Shakeup Learning Download Google Keep Cheat Sheet by Shakeup Learning
   includes everything you need to know to get started. 
• Shake Up Learning with Google Keep Links to an external site. slideshow
• Learn how to rearrange and pin notes, create and use a checklist, create a location based reminder, share a note, annotate an image, and record audio notes by watching the 5 Ways to Get More Out of Google Keep Links to an external site. video tutorial.
• Learn how to pin, archive, rearrange, and select multiple notes to perform an action on by watching the How to Clean Up the Google Keep Home Page | Pin & Archive Notes Links to an external site. video tutorial. TIP: If you archive a note, it will not be displayed in the Keep Notepad side panel when opened in a Google Doc or Google Slides.

EARN THE BADGE 

See the attached rubric to know how your submission will be assessed (click 3 dot Options menu at the top and choose Show Rubric). To earn the badge, you must obtain 6 of the possible 7 points.

1. 1. Design a lesson in which you apply what you have learned for use in your classroom, either by using Keep yourself for instruction, or by having your students use it. See the Designing Tech Amplified Lesson for guidance on creating a lesson plan that uses digital tools.
   2. Click Reply below and reflect on your lesson. In your reply include:
      • Did students demonstrate understanding of the learning target? If yes, how? 
      • How did the use of Keep amplify your lesson? Did it add value to the learning goal though engagement, enhancement or extension? Did it make you or your student more efficient and effective?
      • If you had the opportunity to teach this lesson again to this same group of students, what would you do differently? Why?
      • In your reply, you can choose to share an artifact or your lesson plan in the form of a shared link, screenshot (Links to an external site.), attached file (Links to an external site.), or embedded image (Links to an external site.). This is not required.

Once you've posted your reply, you will be able to view posts from other teachers. Feel free to like or comment on others' submissions.

FACILITATOR

Janetta Garton  Coordinator of Instructional Innovation