Sutori

September 19, 2017
Sutori is a great site to use for building timelines with your class.  Now, just because you're not a History teacher, doesn't mean you can't use this nifty tech tool.  Of course, you can build timelines for whatever unit you are studying in a history class, but you can also use this site for lots of other stuff.

Dust Bowl - https://www.sutori.com/story/from-drought-to-dust - This is a great example of a timeline!

Weathering and Erosion - https://www.sutori.com/story/how-can-wind-change-the-shape-of-the-land - An example of some side by side images and questions related to those images.

Double Entry Journal for Reading - https://www.sutori.com/story/ready-player-one-double-entry-journals

A Template for a Word Problem in Math - https://www.sutori.com/story/graphic-organizer-math-connections - I really like the way this sets up the students to really think through a math problem and look for some real-world connections to the problem.  This one could make a great assignment for the kids.

So what's the "twist" you ask?  Well, thinking through the AVID strategies, I can see this as the perfect tool for the ELL of CORNELL notes.  Kids can take their notes and collaborate with peers in order to synthesize what they've learned.  They could summarize concepts on the left side of the screen and put examples and questions they may still have on the right.  It really just depends on the subject matter.  But the look of the site is so clean and easy to use, that students might really like having it available as an option for studying their notes.

Here is a link to a "story" that explains how to create your first "story".  https://www.sutori.com/story/how-to-create-a-story