There's an app for that
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This presentation is part of a new online series: Tools, Tips, and Trends. We discuss the following apps: Colorfy, Color Therapy, Evernote, and Padlet
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There's an app for that
- 1. There’s an app for that: apps and tools to boost your creativity, productivity (or both)! Kimberly Brown-Harden Indiana State Library Professional Development Office
- 2. What we’ll cover: • Short history of apps • Statistics • App categories • Featured apps • Questions
- 3. What is an app? • Apps is an abbreviation for application. • It allows you to perform a specific task. • A mobile app is a computer program designed to run on mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers
- 4. First Mobile App: Snake…
- 13. Android: • Games • Books and Reference • Comics • Communication • Creativity • Education • Entertainment • Libraries & demo • Heath & fitness • Finance • Lifestyle • Media & video • Medical • Music • News & magazines • Photography • Productivity • Shopping • Sports
- 14. Apple: • Books • Business • Catalogs • Education • Entertainment • Finance • Food & drink • Games • Heath & fitness • Kids • Lifestyle • Magazines & newspapers • Medical • Music • Navigation • News • Photo & video • Productivity • Reference
- 15. Featured Apps!
- 16. Colorfy: Fun Games for Free • iOS and Android compatible • Coloring book for adults • Free • Can share your work via email or text.
- 17. My Creations:
- 18. Color Therapy: Miinu Limited • iOS and Android devices • Coloring book for adults • Free • Can share your work via email, facebook, twitter, and instagram
- 19. Example…
- 20. Evernote: Evernote Corporation • iOS and Android compatible • Has basic (free), plus, premium, and business versions. • Syncs between your phone and device. • Take and organize notes. • Share ideas/collaborate • Can purchase other complimentary products.
- 21. Evernote: • Can organize your notes with notebooks. • Many ways to take notes – Type – Write – Record audio notes • Can create checklists and reminders • Scan business cards • Web clipper feature
- 22. Web Clipper:
- 23. Web Clipper
- 25. Notes:
- 26. Note:
- 27. Notebook:
- 28. Evernote app Center • Independent apps all in one place • All the apps use the Evernote platform • Several apps that make using Evernote easier. • Many apps to choose from in a variety of categories – Business – Productivity – Lifestyle – Paperless
- 29. App Center:
- 30. New and Noteworthy Apps:
- 33. Padlet: • iOS and Android compatible • Free and premium versions • Can express your thoughts on a common topic • Works like an online sheet of paper • Create and collaborate • Can share and export.
- 38. Padlet Styles: Free Form Stream
- 41. Privacy:
- 43. Questions:
- 44. Contact: • Kimberly Brown-Harden, Northwest Regional Coordinator kbrown-harden@library.in.gov 317-650-8492
Editor's Notes
- An app is a piece of software. It can run on the Internet, on your computer, or on your phone or other electronic device. The word "app" is a more modern usage, but this is really the same thing as a program. . Most such devices are sold with several apps bundled as pre-installed software, such as a web browser, email client, calendar, mapping program, and an app for buying music or other media or more apps
- Nokia was famous for putting the 1970s video game Snake on some of its earliest phones. Other followed, adding games like Pong, Tetris, and Tic-Tac-Toe. This began the trend of ‘time waster’ games.
- Some of the most popular operating system-native stores are Apple's App Store, Google Play, as well as Windows Phone Store and BlackBerry App World. As of June 2015, more than 100 billion mobile apps had been downloaded from the Apple App Store. Source: Statista.
- Roughly nine-in-ten American adults (92%) own a mobile phone of some kind.
- New infographic released by Go-Globe on mobile app usage statistics and trends indicates that mobile apps are on rampage. Infographic source: http://www.go-globe.com/blog/mobile-apps-usage/. 1 in 5 people in the world own a smartphone (Source: BI Intelligence) 1 in 17 people in the world own a tablet (Source: BI Intelligence) 25% of smartphone owners aged 18-44 can’t remember the last time their phone wasn’t next to them (Source: Fast Company)
- Discuss; is this true for many of us? Source: https://www1.good.com/about/press-releases/161009045.html.
- There are many others to choose from…
- Again, there are many more; you get the idea. Both app stores have a ton and free as well as paid apps to organize us, entertain us, or drive us insane! Now let’s talk about a few featured apps today…
- We’re going to look at four apps today: Colorfy, Color Therapy, Evernote, and Padlet. Let’s begin!
- Has some free color palettes; if you want more sophisticated ones, you need to purchase. Nice variety of coloring pages, but again will have to purchase if you want additional ones. You can add filters to your work to make them look like works of art! Very soothing and relaxing.
- These are from the Colorfy and ColorFLY app. Mobile app.
- Very similar to colorfy; again, free colors, but there are some that are locked. You can access them by watching a video or sharing your work a number of times as well as purchase. Very relaxing. You can also save your work to your device (pictures) or within the app ‘My Artwork’. These and similar apps can possibly be used in adult programs to get on the ‘adult coloring book’ trend.
- This was done using some of the filters included in the app.
- Evernote is an independent, privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in 2007, Evernote products reach more than 100 million users worldwide. I’ll be talking about the basic/free version. Each version does more obviously, than the free one. Plus is 24.99/yr, premium 49.99/year; business 120.00/per user per year. Share ideas: can do work chat with other users, share your notes and notebooks.
- Annotate photos and PDFs for quick communication with teams working remotely in field offices or building sites. Photos of anything that might inspire new ideas, new designs, or new compositions. Snap photos of a whiteboard or Post-it ® Notes from a brainstorm session. Checklists: Use checklists to manage tasks. Learn more Create reminders to manage tasks: Use reminders to keep track of notes that contain time-sensitive information, and receive alerts for upcoming tasks and events. Learn more Annotate your notes: Clarify and solicit feedback by annotating an entire note, an individual image, or a PDF. Use lines, shapes, arrows to comment, clarify, and collaborate. Learn more Scan contracts, legal documents, receipts, or business cards. Use your computer, mobile phone, or tablet to create any kind of note and recall them as needed. Evernote Web Clipper is a simple extension for your web browser that lets you capture full-page articles, images, selected text, important emails, and any web page. Available for Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer (IE) 7+, Firefox, and Opera
- Web clipper: You the option to save articles or bookmarks from the web and save it to your notes.
- This is an article I saved using web clipper; it’s saved to my webinars and collaborations notebook…
- On this page: add a new note (+) Search Work chat Shortcuts Notes Notebooks Tags-can add tags for notes and notebooks
- Feature: you can create or edit a reminder about the note; add shortcut, note info has when the note was created, the size (how many bytes) as well as location (longitude and latitude), delete the note; copy notelink and send via email. Share: you can share notes via email or workchat, you can also send via facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, or link.
- Create a new notebook Can see the notes within the notebook
- All the apps hook into individuals' Evernote accounts and either create notes in new ways, or help users discover or display notes they already have. The Evernote Platform is the secure service that stores all your Evernote data and lets you synchronize your account across multiple devices (like your mobile phone, tablets, and computers) and multiple apps. Example, scannable, which is currently for iOS platforms. Scannable instantly recognizes business cards, receipts, and any other paper you point it at. Whiteboards, too. Scans are automatically cropped and enhanced, producing crystal clear digital documents. Scannable turns business cards into contacts with LinkedIn details and photos and gives you the ability to save it all to your phone’s contacts.
- App center: https://appcenter.evernote.com/.
- Evernote apps are compatible with a variety of platforms: Android, iPhone, web apps, iPad, Mac and Windows. Swipes App (in case someone asks): Swipes app is an intuitive to-do list which gives you the fastest way to organize any list of tasks into priorities, scheduled events and history of accomplishments. The app collects your tasks from notes, emails and docs allowing you to compare them between each other and quickly make a plan of the priorities for the day. Key features: Evernote notes can be tagged with 'swipes' and automatically turned into tasks in Swipes Checkmarks from notes can be directly synced as action steps in Swipes and managed there (edit, complete and prioritize) Evernote notes can be attached to a Swipes task as a reference information. Learn how to use Swipes and Evernote for a simplified GTD workflow.
- Padlet Backpack is a paid version of Padlet for schools. It costs $5 per teacher monthly, or at a discounted rate of $45 per teacher annually. Teachers can create unlimited student accounts for free. Padlet Briefcase is a paid version of Padlet for companies. It costs $5 per user monthly, or at a discounted rate of $45 per user annually. works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device. Think of it like a multimedia friendly, free-form, real-time wiki. Can share your padlet via social media outlets: facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, etc. Can export as pdf, excel file, or image.
- Padlet for a thought exchange here at work.
- It’s very easy to add to your padlet: Just double click and a box will appear. You can either add text, pictures, or videos. You can upload files from the web or from your computer.
- You can choose the layout of your padlet: Freeform, Stream, or Grid.
- This is me on a snowy Friday afternoon on the left! I uploaded the image and saved it to my desktop…grid format
- Modifying or customizing your padlet is very easy. You can choose pre-loaded images or you can use your own image by clicking on the ‘add’ button. You can add titles, descriptions, and tags. On the right, there are more options!
- This is a shot of the wallpapers you can choose from to modify your padlet. Just click on wallpaper and select a design that suits you.
- You can make your Padlet public or private, depending on your primary use. I made mine public so I could share and collaborate with colleagues for our Thought Exchange (so far, not too many thoughts)! Note: you can allow people to moderate or write on your padlet…