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Schools are increasingly relying on laptops, tablets, smartphones, and other devices to help educate students for the 21st century. Evernote can serve as a solution to help students and teachers collaborate on assignments and projects and access research notes and shared documents from any device.
Introduction
Note-taking in an increasingly online and mobile world can be tough. Not only do you have to keep track of traditional paper documents, but you also need to manage a million different web sites, content on those sites, including images and video.
For example, you might be surfing at home and find something relevant to work. You can highlight that content and then save it somewhere for easy retrieval. Do that a few more times and you end up with either a mass of links and content or an organized set of resources you can share with others or keep for yourself.
If you'd prefer to have an organized set of resources, then this webinar is for you! You'll learn how to use EverNote as a free, easy to use tool to organize the online content that you encounter every day. EverNote works on your computer, as well as your smartphone (e.g. iPhone, Android) so you have access to it anywhere you are connected.
The following is another webinar about EverNote:
Evernote for education webinar from Ronald Toledo on Vimeo.
10 TIPS FOR TEACHERS USING EVERNOTE
As a teacher, my Evernote use falls into three categories:
- Prior to class
- During class
- After class
Prior to class
- Plan and organize your classes with tags: Using tags is a great way to organize your classes on a week-to-week basis or on a class-by-class basis. For example, if you know that there is certain content that has to be taught during the second week of the school year, then for all related content you can use the tag “week 2″. Once you’ve created this system you can keep adding additional items throughout the year.
- Standards database: Compile standards of achievements for your particular grade or subject. You can even share them with teachers, parents, administrators and students using Evernote’s sharing features.
- Professional development: If you use the summer break or vacations to improve your skills or continue your education, keep all your notes, resources, lessons and new ideas learned in Evernote. This also works well for teacher in-services, conferences, workshops and seminars that you attend.
- Classroom templates: Templates are a great way to save time when grading and assessing your students. If you use templates such as grade sheets or student assessment forms, keep them in Evernote so you have them at your fingertips throughout the year.
- Prepare for your absence: Use Evernote’s shared notebooks as a way to keep your class up and running even if you aren’t there. Evernote makes it easy to share a notebook with the substitute teacher. Consider sharing lesson plans, worksheets, answer keys and examples of completed work. This can ensure your class keeps moving even if you aren’t there.
During Class
- Share a notebook with your class: After you create a public notebook, share the URL with your class. This way anything you add can be viewed by your students (or their parents). Here’s an example of a public notebook that I created for an entrepreneurship class.
- Whiteboard photos: Taking snapshots of the whiteboard is a favorite use of mine. Take photographs of the whiteboard before the start of the class, and again at the end. This gives you an accurate time stamped snapshot of what you were working on, on any given date. You can title or tag each photo based on the lecture number to make searching for specific photos easier. Also, you can share the photos with students that miss a class, so that they have the day’s notes.
- Keep handouts handy: Keep all of the handouts, worksheets, templates, study guides and assignments that you frequently use in Evernote, where they are easily searchable and accessible.
After Class
- Simplify grading: Scan graded tests, including scantrons and add them to Evernote. You can then enter them into your preferred grade-book or spreadsheet when you have time. This is also great if you have a teacher’s assistant. You can share the notebook with them and have them help with the grading process.
- Keep your extracurriculars in order: If you participate in any committees or coach a team, you can use Evernote to keep track of all the different research, notes and information associated with it. Again, shared notebooks are a great way to keep your committee on the same page and makes for an easy way to share collective knowledge about a project.
Evernote Education Resources
Other Resources
Evernote allows users to easily capture information in any
environment, using the computers and phones they find most convenient,
and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from
anywhere. Evernote is a great tool for teachers and students alike to
keep a lifetime of learning at their fingertips. It is available to
download for free on Windows, Mac, Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, and other
devices.
Feel free to explore the resources we have available for teachers and students. We think Evernote makes a great tool for any classroom, see how.
Feel free to explore the resources we have available for teachers and students. We think Evernote makes a great tool for any classroom, see how.
Education Spotlight
- Evernote for Schools: Join our discussion forum dedicated to Evernote for Schools. Share your experiences, best practices and tips and learn from fellow educators.
- Evernote for education webinar: Learn all about the ways that Evernote is being put to use in the classroom, including a Q&A session.
- Evernote Peek: the first Smart Cover learning app. Now with audio clues and linked notebooks
Evernote guides and resources
via John Larkin- Evernote workshop guide
- Evernote
- Evernote tips
- Explaining Evernote
- Beginners Guide To Use Evernote
- Evernote Tips Tricks and Resources
- Evernote How To Guides
- 31 Ninja Tricks for Making Evernote More Awesome
And, for bloggers using Wordpress:
Source: http://murcha.wordpress.com/2011/10/28/a-community-helps-lunch-with-an-author-project/
How a community helps “Lunch with an author” project
Few people realize the rurality of the school I teach in nor how
culturally and geographically isolated we are. So, it is with some
amazement that students are able to spend a weekly lunchtime with an
author from New York. Next problem is how to make this work effectively
when we live in different days of the week, different time zones etc?
To ensure that students can collaborate and interact at any stage , Christopher sought help from other New York authors and writers who suggested using evernote.
Immediately, Christopher set up an evernote account for us to share. In there he has placed three folders for students to add notes to:-
To ensure that students can collaborate and interact at any stage , Christopher sought help from other New York authors and writers who suggested using evernote.
Immediately, Christopher set up an evernote account for us to share. In there he has placed three folders for students to add notes to:-
- A characters folder for students to add their character
- A folder for questions to Christopher
- A folder with advice and instructions from Christopher
This worked well today, when students came in during lunchtime. A
number of students logged into the evernote simultaneously, added notes
at the same time without any problems.
Other community involvement
- Christophers’ New York publicist is working on New York press releases and media outlets to promote this pioneering project. This meant permission forms and special notes have gone out to parents so that they are fully aware of the project and approve any media publicity.
- Our librarian, remembering that Christopher told students that “a writer always has a pen with them”, has purchased a spiral bound writing book for each student, so they can keep their notes, idea jottings and clippings etc. That was given out at lunch today.
- Our literacy coach spent lunchtime with us today, helping those students who were having difficulty with their character creation.
A blog has been set up (and is work in progress!) at globalwriters. This
will be used to add podcasts, images, other resources, reflections,
comments from students etc and perhaps to showcase some of their work.
What would tools would you suggest we use?
Share Evernote Notebooks via RSS
Ultimately, no man or woman is happy unless they have found a way to contribute beyond themselves. ~Tony Robbins
Playing around with Evernote--which I'm coming to fall in love with, albeit a bit late in the game--it occurred to me that sharing Notebooks of content with the world one at a time was cumbersome. Since dlvr.it was fresh on my mind, it occurred to me to try copying-n-pasting the Evernote shared notebook url--such as the one below--into dlvr-it and see what happened.
https://www.evernote.com/pub/mguhlin/books2read
Not surprisingly, it worked, making it incredibly easy for me to
share my reading interests on a variety of topics via Twitter and
Facebook as I read them (within 15 minutes). This is awesome because
there are many times when I don't blog about what I'm reading, but still
think it's worth keeping.
Here's the process:
1) Share Notebooks - This link is available in the top right corner:
2) Review your list of shared/unshared notebooks in Evernote, then click the button to START SHARING:
3) Generate the URL (Web Address) you want for a shared item:
Click START SHARING WITH THE WORLD and you'll see:
4) Copy-n-paste the public URL (right-click on it) then drop it into ifttt.com or dlvr.it. Since I prefer dlvr.it, this is what it looks like for me:
That's all there is to it! You can watch the items show up in your
Twitter feed (note I'm using IceRocket Search Engine for Twitter below):
Tiny Url for Recording: http://hnyctt.me/cr20live-Evernote-BillStites
Recording Chat: http://wiki.classroom20.com/FEB42012
Audio Recording:
Topic: Using Evernote
Special Guest: Bill Stites
Follow-up Reading/Viewing Suggestions: (links shared by participants during the session will be added at the end of the list and also on the Livebinder)
LiveBinder Link: http://www.livebinders.com/edit?id=288123
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