Kami is your digital pen and paper! This classroom app helps students engage and interact with their reading and writing material. Plus, it’s free. There’s an upgrade option for a cost, but the free option has enough great features. First, you create an account. You decide the format of your account: I originally chose “Open from computer” and uploaded a PDF from my computer as a trial. But then I found opening from Google Drive was easier to organize and use/share documents with students. However, whether you use the Google option or not, both set-ups are easy to navigate and use with students. For students, they need to go to www.kamiapp.com and click “Sign In.” They will be given a choice like the blue boxes above. They can type in their email address. Then, they go back to Google Drive and find the document that needs to be opened. Click on the assigned document. Click on the three dots in upper right hand corner and click “open in new window.” A new screen will pop up. Now, choose to “Open with” and from drop down box, choose “Annotate with Kami.” NOTE: If students don't have Google accounts, they still open an account with their school email. In whatever fashion they receive the documents from you, they would just open the document from their computer via Kami. A new window with Kami’s tools will appear. It will look like this: You can see all the tools available on the left side. The images with a yellow lock are not available with free option. However, you can see plenty of tools available with the free account. Students will be able to highlight, comment, write, and draw on this reading assignment. Super! For this reading assignment, we might ask students to yellow highlight three drink vocabulary words, green highlight three dessert vocabulary words, etc. Next, we might ask students to write their opinions about three of the meals. Perhaps we will ask them to comment on a food item that looks appealing or new to them. Important! Make sure the document is saved during and after the assignment is completed. Now, it is loaded to the Google Drive. For students, they will need to return to Google Drive. There is a box that says “Turn In,” so upload the assignment there. In the drive, they should see this reading assignment as a recent document.
We gave this example with a reading strategy, but this could work with a worksheet that simply asks students to write and/or draw answers. Also, if you have a document you will be teaching from, students can open it and take notes on it as you teach. In review, why would you want to use Kami?
NOTE: We mentioned Kami in our webinar, "Tools for Teaching World Languages at Distance."
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