Week 5

Creating a note on Evernote was pretty simple, but I could not do all the “fancy” things like the man was describing in the tutorial on Lynda.com. I will have to continue to play around with it. To be honest I watched the tutorial and did not immediately begin to work on it, therefore, my memory was slightly off when I was working on creating my note. I do like the simplicity of using all the different tools. I also think that it is an excellent way of organizing your thoughts, research, and ideas. One feature that I liked was the ability to search through your notes. Although, I only created one note there was not anything I had to search for, but I like the idea of this because you can easily find notes if you wanted to go back and reference previously written notes.

I think that high school students can benefit from a program like Evernote. I know a lot of high schools have provided all students with a laptop. Considering the fact that high school students have many classes and each class provides them with a ton of different knowledge, Evernote would allow them to organize their notes efficiently. It is very convenient because you can use Evernote on your computer, phone, or Ipad. The students can even send the notes to someone’s Facebook or Twitter.

I also believe that even elementary students can use Evernote for storing and organized their information. I think my fifth graders would benefit from using Evernote in science by using the app on the Ipad. When given a lab to complete they can plan and write information and background knowledge. As they are conducting the activity they can use the audio recorder to describe what they observe and even include a picture. This can be easily accessed all year in order to review past labs.

I would also use this with the fourth graders, they can as a group discuss their thinking and add images. I like how the students can easily add audio recordings so they do not have to take a lot of time to write observations when time is limited, they can record as they observe and each student can take turns including their own thoughts. This will be great for me as the teacher I can hear the student’s voices and know they all contributed to the group instead of written work where there’s the possibility that one or few students did the work and someone perhaps did not contribute.