Kami: Annotation Tool

One of the most used apps in my classroom is Kami. It is an annotation app that syncs beautifully with Google Drive. There is a free version and a paid version. I have only used the free version but hope to get the paid version next year.

As we are 1-1 school in secondary education, we are virtually paperless and textbook free. Students used Preview and Adobe previously, but I was really excited when I discovered Kami.

The basic, replace paper feature is the annotation. It still means that students don’t need to have highlighters, different color pens, and other items needed for annotation.

All of these features are great, but my favorite feature is the ability to collaborate. Students are able to work on the same document together to complete annotation.

Students use an annotation rubric and then I give them specifics for the type of text we are looking at.

Here are two different student examples:

Short Story

Poem from Read Works

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