I am currently working as a TOSA (teacher on special assignment) to coach and support technology integration at the secondary level throughout our district. Kami is undoubtedly our go-to tool for professional development, as it's the delivery method of our monthly challenges.
In the classroom, Kami integrated seamlessly with Google Classroom and Canvas, our LMS, and Google Workspace with the Open with Kami button throughout. You can also find this button in Canva, which is wildly helpful.
I support teachers who use Kami daily, and even our data suggests that it has the HIGHEST use of any of our premium apps throughout the district. It is used in our Dual Language classes to support Spanish language students with its translation of menu and interface, Multilingual Student Dictionary, and Read Aloud in Spanish. Our math teachers use the built-in supports for students with virtual rulers, compasses, and protractors. All students are issued a touchscreen Chromebook with a stylus, and this allows students to draw and write their answers.
Moreso, students have access to scaffolded supports. Kami supports our IEPs for students with the ability to add audio comments, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, video comments, and Dyslexic fonts. Videos also generate captions for students in real time. Teachers can leave audio comments as repeatable directions for students or leave video comments for our deaf and hard of hearing students and use ASL to translate.
The Feature Controls allow teachers to easily target student learning and support all students with one app! It saves time and creates efficiency patterns for all users.
Integration was as easy as pushing out a Chrome Extension and students and staff log in easily with SSO with Google.
What I love most is their customer support. Teachers can request 15m, 30m, 60m virtual support sessions to freshen up on their skills, learn new features - which Kami releases ALL THE TIME! They are wildly positive people to work with and your best hype team!
Kami is an incredible accessibility tool. I work with high school students and Kami is easy and intuitive for my students to use. It give them control over their learning without needing tons of settings adjusted. I use it regularly because it is compatible with pretty much anything I am doing online with my students.
My first experiences with Kami were simply being able to edit a PDF file. Then I discovered all the wonderful tools that it offers and was able to transform many of the resources I had into interactive resources for my students. That is why I shared it with the teachers. So that they could also try it. And what I really love about Kami is that it is very user friendly and has many multimedia elements that help engaging students.
Kami is an online platform designed to enhance digital classroom engagement and interaction. It enables students and teachers to view, edit, annotate, share, and collaborate on PDFs and documents in real-time. The tools provided by Kami include options like highlighting, underlining, adding text, and voice and video comments, which improve the overall interactivity of digital documents. This makes it a particularly valuable resource for classrooms that operate in a fully digital or hybrid environment. Kami facilitates a more engaging and paperless learning experience, promoting accessibility and productivity in education.