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Converting the text in an image to a Google Doc with a lot of help from AI

The photo, circa 2018? Years ago, in a different classroom, I had a glorious long whiteboard. It stretched for nearly the full length of one side wall of my classroom. One of my favorite things to use it for was listing sentence frames my 9th graders could use to help them craft body paragraphs of an essay. To take a picture of it I had to use the pano option on my phone, but I am so glad I took that picture.  Fast forward to this past spring when my teaching partner suggested we revive the comparative analysis uint we used to do. I knew I would need these sentence frames again, but my current classroom (while beautiful) has only an eight foot whiteboard—not long enough to recreate this helpful scaffold for my current students.  I decided a digital document could suffice and also be available to students outside the classroom through our LMS. Arguably an improvement. But, it would mean accurately retyping these sentence frames into a table of a Google Doc. Not something I was ...

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