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EDU5650: Learning through Reflection 2 Design and Evaluation

WHAT IS EVERNOTE?

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CAPTURE ANYTHING

Notes

E-Mails

Pictures

Clip web pages or parts of web pages (it keeps the source URL with the note)

Audio recording

Scan paper notes, images and more!!

Text Recognition (Use phone camera phone or web cam to take a snapshot and Evernote can even recognize the text in the image)

Upload attachments to your notes & modify attachments in Evernote)

ACCESS ANYWHERE The desktop

software Mobile App

Sync to the Evernote web server!

FIND THINGS FAST Evernote stores notes in NOTEBOOKS Evernote uses TAGS Automatic ATTRIBUTES attached to notes

SEARCHING IS EASY Use Attributes such as File creation date, To-Do lists, attachment type,

URL etc.. Use Tags Search Engine Mechanism Saved Search

This is an alternative to filing your notes in separate notebooks.

Use the Search function or tags to find the items they need

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OTHER EVERNOTE APPS?

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ANY COSTS???Free Version Premium Version100,000 notes 100,000 notes

file size of 25MB maximum file size of 50MB

60MB upload allowance per month 1024 MB upload allowance

Offers some sharing options Offers greater sharing options

Access to note history

PDF searching

Faster image recognition

$5.00 per month or $45.00 per year (group discounts and education accounts for schools)

EVERNOTE??? ...EDUCATION???

“Evernote is a valuable application for educators. Its usefulness can range from planning a course to delivering a lesson plan to capturing feedback after class.”

1. Plan & organize your classes: Lesson plans and resources can be tagged according to classes and delivery period

2. Standard database: Create a standard assessment criteria list tagged according to subject and classes and can even share them with other teachers, school administrators, parents and the students.

EVERNOTE FOR TEACHERS??

3. Classroom templates: Grade sheets or student assessment forms at your fingertips throughout the year.

4. Public notebook: share a notebook with key notes with the class and parents and let them view anything you add to your notes.

5. Prepare for absence: share a notebook with students such as worksheets, whiteboard photos and other related material for the absent students. Students can follow from home & avoid missing HW’s

6. Professional development: Keep all your notes, resources, lessons and new ideas from teacher in-services, conferences, workshops and seminars that you attend.

EVERNOTE FOR TEACHERS??

EVERNOTE FOR TEACHERS??

Sample Class Database

EVERNOTE??? ...STUDENTS??

1. Snap a Picture of Board Notes

2. The Week’s Agenda: Make a list of “To-Do items”

3. Handing Homework / Assignments: Snap a picture of your H.W. Or writing it directly on a note.

4. Journals: Develop journal entries in one notebook

5. Web Clipper for Research Projects: keeping track of bibliographical note cards, by clipping all of your articles to a research notebook

6. Book Covers: Snap a picture of a book cover & tag it as “books wish list”

EVERNOTE FOR STUDENTS??

7. Recording Audio: Ideal for foreign language class, preparing for a speech, class lectures, recording yourself reading to improve fluency, musical pieces for band, lines for drama

8. Group Projects: Share a notebook so that all members can access and contribute to the project (clip articles, work on drafts, add media, and collaborate easily).

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9. Important Documents: Create a personal notebook for permission slips, registration forms, field trip itineraries, fund raiser information, report cards, etc…

10. Label Images: ideal to label the parts of an item like a microscope, a dissection, an instrument, places on a map, stage directions for a play, information written on the board

EVERNOTE FOR STUDENTS??

...E-PORTFOLIO?

Initially, students (8-11yrs) create paper portfolios.

Kept a binder to put their best work or compare

two pieces that showed growth.

Problem:

Take so much room in the class

The work would never be exposed …only

occasionally!

Better Solution?? … digital form

…“Evernote was free, had an app for virtually every device, and we could get started right away”

Rob Van NoodPrimary Teacher in

Portand Blog:

evernotefolios.wordpress.com

Website: www.engagingeducation.me

...E-PORTFOLIO? ...HOW IT STARTED

1. Setting up demos with the students… 2. Create a set of guidelines for the

students of how to use Evernote…

3. Discussed TAGGING…

4. Created Accounts

5. Input their work into Evernote …through a scanner/mob/ IPads etc…

...E-PORTFOLIO? ...DAY 2 DAY RUNNING!

Great ideas are saved to Evernote to show progress over the course of the school year.

…“when a student comes up with an interesting strategy on a whiteboard, I have them write down their name next to it and take a picture of it, or record them explaining what they came up with”

Projects are recorded, photographed or video shot and clipped to Evernote together with the students’ personal reflective comment

Extracurricular work, having a sense of achievement, is recorded!

Students’ notes (portfolios) were shared, available for the parents to progress their kids’ educational growth

…“The students actually taught the parents how to use Evernote at our conference by familiarizing them with their portfolios”

IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES...

Teachers/Students can use their

own technology

No financial burden!!

Redesigning course material and

teaching pedagogy is not a

necessity! Internet Access

WIFI strength

Educational Policies

Tech in schools???

School Protocols???

Culture Change ...parents issues!

Digital Divide ...shall this limit the use of

Evernote?

May not be adequate in class of 25 students!