Kami Library

Kami is a digital annotation tool that helps students and teachers interact with pdf documents. We’ve mentioned Kami before and their comment tools. We’ve also shared Kami Geography Scavenger Hunt Activity as a way for you and your students to test out some Kami’s features.  Now, Kami has expanded their templates for note-taking, games, and more! Kami Library has hundreds of free, ready-made teaching templates to download, customize, and share - no strings attached! You can filter by grade level, resource type, and subject.

All students have the Kami extension pre-installed on their Parkway-issued Chromebooks. Teachers need to install the Kami extension in Chrome.

Kami's Split and Merge Feature

 Kami is a digital annotation tool that helps students and teachers interact with pdf documents. We’ve mentioned Kami before and their comment tools. Now we’re diving deep with a fan-favorite Kami tool - Split and Merge.

Split and Merge allows you to effortlessly customize and combine your PDFs by simply clicking a few buttons. Cut out content you don’t need, rearrange the pages for a better flow, or get completely creative by chopping and changing a bunch to make something completely original. Check out Parkway’s Kami’s Split and Merge video!

All students have the Kami extension pre-installed on their Parkway-issued Chromebooks. Teachers need to install the Kami extension in Chrome.

Parent Pointer: Kami

Kami is a digital annotation tool that helps students (and teachers) interact and collaborate with pdf documents. All students have the Kami extension pre-installed on their Parkway-issued Chromebooks. Kami has a Read Aloud feature that allows learners to hear the text to be read aloud. (Remember, this feature is also available with Chromebook Accessibility.) Kami also has a Dictionary feature, which gives the definition of the highlighted text. Finally, a tool that both students and teachers enjoy is the colorful stickers rewarded after a job well done. Go ahead, have your child test out Kami’s features with this fun Kami Geography Scavenger Hunt Activity (you must use the Parkway-issued Chromebooks and open the PDF with Kami).

Teacher Tip: Kami

Kami is a digital annotation tool that helps students and teachers interact with pdf documents. All students have the Kami extension pre-installed on their Parkway-issued Chromebooks. Teachers need to install the Kami extension in Chrome. 

Some features unique to Kami include:

• Read Aloud - This allows learners to hear the text to be read aloud. Read Alouds are especially helpful for students learning to read.

• Dictionary - When the text is highlighted, it gives the definition of the vocabulary word.

• Stickers - These colorful stickers can be rewarded after a job well done.

Go ahead, test out some of Kami’s features with this fun Kami Geography Scavenger Hunt Activity. Make sure you have the Kami extension installed and turned on in Chrome in order to open the PDF with Kami. If you did it correctly you should see the Kami (K) near the top of the web address in Chrome. If not, you may need to go to Google Extensions to make it appear.

Stay tuned for more Kami features in the future!

Goal settings and Formatives

The new 2 Tips From Teachers has tips for goal setting and formatives. The first tip is about helping students self-assess by tracking goals using Kami. The second tip is about using Google Forms for daily checks. Check them out!

Tip #1 -Tracking student goals using Kami (submitted by Christine Keating at Bellerive)

Tip #2- Daily checks using Google Forms (submitted by Jenny Proffitt in TLA)