1. EDU5650: Learning through Reflection 2 Design and Evaluation

2. See video

3.  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)

4.  The desktop software
 Mobile App
Sync to the Evernote web server!

5.  Evernote stores notes in
 Evernote uses
 Automatic attached to notes
 Use Attributes such as File creation date, To-Do lists, attachment type, URL etc..
 Use Tags
 Search Engine Mechanism
 Saved Search

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7. Free Version Premium Version
100,000 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)

9. “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.”
Lesson plans and resources can be
tagged according to classes and delivery period
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.

10. Grade sheets or student assessment
forms at your fingertips throughout the year.
share a notebook with key notes with the class
and parents and let them view anything you add to your notes.
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
Keep all your notes, resources,
lessons and new ideas from teacher in-services, conferences,
workshops and seminars that you attend.

11. Sample Class Database

12. Make a list of “To-Do items”
Snap a picture of your
H.W. Or writing it directly on a note.
Develop journal entries in one notebook
keeping track of
bibliographical note cards, by clipping all of your articles to a
research notebook
Snap a picture of a book cover & tag it as “books
wish list”

13. Ideal for foreign language class, preparing for
a speech, class lectures, recording yourself reading to improve
fluency, musical pieces for band, lines for drama
Share a notebook so that all members can
access and contribute to the project (clip articles, work on drafts,
add media, and collaborate easily).
…Subscribe to for updates notification!!
Create a personal notebook for
permission slips, registration forms, field trip itineraries, fund raiser
information, report cards, etc…
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

15.  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 Nood
Primary Teacher in Portand
Blog:
evernotefolios.wordpress.com
Website:
www.engagingeducation.me

16. 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…

17.  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”

18.  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!