A short presentation on how to use Evernote geared at elearning teachers

1. Making it Easy with
Evernote

2. http://bit.ly/evernotepresentatio
n

3. What is it?
• a suite of software and services
designed for notetaking and archiving.
• a "note" can be a piece of formatted
text, a full webpage or webpage
excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo,
or a handwritten "ink" note.
• Notes can be sorted into folders, then
tagged, annotated, edited, given
comments, searched and exported as
part of a notebook.

4. What makes is
special?
• You can synchronize all this information
across multiple devices.

5. What could you use it
for?
• Keep anecdotal records of
assessments/learning skills/behaviour
• Create digital portfolios of student work
• Record conferences
• Organize research for lesson plans
• Provide multimodal feedback on
student work and share with
parents/students using a url

6. Getting Started
• Note: a simple item stored in Evernote

8. Getting Started
• Notebook: A container for notes

10. Step 1
• Install Evernote on your computer. It’s a
free download www.evernote.com

11. Step 2
• Create a user account (you will be
prompted to do this the first time you
open Evernote)
• The account is necessary to keep notes
synchronized across devices

12. Step 3
• Creating a note

14. Step 3
• Once you’ve created that note you
can access it anywhere you have
access to the internet. (If you buy the
Premium version you can access it
offline.

15. Step 4
• Create notes from the web using a web
clipper
• Go to www.evernote.com/products
• Click on “webclipper”

16. Step 4
• This will install a button in your browser
you can use to clip webpages or
portions of webpages

17. Step 4

18. Using Evernote to
Provide Feedback

19. Step 1
• Create a
notebook for
each student

20. • Once you’ve
created each
one, drag each
name on top of
the next to
create a
“notebook stack”
• You can rename
the notebook
stack
Step 2

21. Step 4
• To create a new note for a specific student,
open up the student’s notebook and create
new note

22. Step 4
• But what if you want to record a
conference?

23. Step 5
• Importing files to record multimodal
feedback

24. Step 5
• Evernote will create
the new note for you
in the student’s
notebook

25. Click on
the Skitch
app to
annotate
the
assignmen
t. It will
save a new
version as
a PDF with
your
annotation
s

26. Creating a note with audio feedback is a bit
different. You have to copy and paste the actual
text.
1)
2)
3)
4)
Download the file.
Open it up.
Copy and paste.
Paste into a new note in the student’s
notebook

27. Choose audio or video as your
recording method.

28. 1)
2)
3)
4)
My preferred method is to:
Copy and paste the text to create a new
note.
Highlight errors, or anything else I want
to talk about them.
Make a recording where I explain what
I’ve highlighted.
Share the note with the student.

29. Share URL with student. They don’t need to have
Evernote

30. Tags
• Tags are key words used to organize,
sort and help you find notes.

31. Next steps
• Using Evernote on mobile Devices

32. On your phone, it looks
a little different but it’s
easier to take multimodal notes.

33. Evernote will
automatically sync
your notes so if you
look at them on your
computer, they’ll be
the same.
Tip: you can access
your notes online
with a computer that
doesn’t have
Evernote by logging
in to the website.

34. Privacy
• Don’t store highly sensitive data in
Evernote. Consider giving students
code names or use first name and last
initial
• Your account is password protected but
it’s better to be safe

35. Your Thoughts?
• How could you use Evernote?
• What questions do you still have?