Designed for use online with Google Drive. Can be used with Google Classroom, OneDrive or offline with PowerPoint. See how these notebooks can be used on my Youtube channel here! LOVE THE IDEA BUT WANT A DIFFERENT STYLE? No problem! This file

See how these notebooks can be used here: http://bit.ly/thisdigitallife LOVE THE IDEA BUT WANT A DIFFERENT STYLE? No problem! This file contains the WORKFLOW theme. If you need something different, let me know your requirements. WHY DIGITAL NOTEBOOKS? These notebooks took me endless hours to design and perfect, but I'm glad I did! Digital notebooks, which are accessed via a device, solve so many problems that otherwise cause teachers to lose time and become stressed. These include: ***Printing hassle and costs. *** Students forgetting to bring their notebooks. *** Notebooks deteriorating over time as they are handled and moved in and out of bags. *** Poor organisation and presentation with illegible handwriting or stains from snacks munched over homework. With the innovation of digital notebooks, all these problems disappear. Students LOVE technology, and even in the extremely rare cases where my students forget to bring their laptops, they (or I) always have a device nearby they can access their notebooks on. This means: *** Students don’t lose any precious learning time and all their notes are in one place - they simply open the notebook from a bookmark and away they go! *** All the writing is legible as it is typed in a neat and clear font. *** Students engage with the tasks more willingly. *** There is scope for a greater range of responses including media other than text e.g. pictures, videos and hyperlinks. *** Digital notebooks never run out! Because you can continually add pages as needed, students have ONE place for ALL their notes throughout the year. *** Using my method of placing most recent work at the top of the file, there is no need to scroll (or flick) through lots of pages to find the one you want. WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT THESE NOTEBOOKS? These particular digital notebooks have been designed as a space for students to record responses to starters / warmers /settling activities at the beginning of a lesson. They are also used for short time-filling activities or tasks that require shorter or multimedia responses. However, these notebooks are not just a space for students to record responses to displayed prompts. Realising the fact we all do better with concrete examples, I have included no less than NINE different graphic organisers for students to record their responses. Updated 27th April 2017: Added 'index' template For a student instructional video, visit here: http://bit.ly/inbstudent Please note, this product contains templates. It does not contain the actual activities - the idea is that you display these or give instructions. The notebook is a place to respond to these prompts. If you are looking for starters to use with this email me or check out my store. Questions? I'd love to hear from you via roamingteacher@gmail.com

This resource contains 1 page, which is is a board game to get your students talking for as short or long as you'd like to use the activity. Over the years, I have used this with Secondary (Middle / High School) and college students in EAL, ESL, Language Arts and English settings, so I can personally attest it is suitable for all and promotes lots of discussion. While these board games are deceptively simple in the idea, they can lead to all heated debates and realisations about your students you couldn't have guessed! Promote meaningful and useful discussion skills such as: * Stating opinions with supporting details * Polite disagreement with supporting details * Agreement with supporting details * Questioning further to get a more detailed response If you would like a FREE discussion mat to accompany this activity (after purchase), drop me a line at roamingteacher@gmail.com. The mat contains prompts organised by category (such as agreeing, disagreeing politely etc.) Questions or comments - please leave them below. I'd love to hear from you! Keywords: speaking, listening, discussion, group, team, groupwork, teamwork, teens, adults, esl, eal, language arts, english, game, board, boardgame, fun