The Evernote family of products help you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use. You could also incorporate these tools into your lessons by having students use Evernote to work collaboratively on a notebook or to save their works in process.
Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity.
Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, work, or somewhere in between. It is like saving your work to the cloud, but with folder structures you control.
According to the article 10 Evernote Tips for Schools the author key headline is "10 Great ways students can use Evernote to study Smarter and not Harder". Another article i found on the Evernote blog was by Buffy Hamilton. Ms Hamilton's said "Evernote would be a perfect solution for the students’ need to archive and organize traditional and non-traditional sources of information." With Evernote's ability to search pictures for text, studnet scan even take a picture of a document they need and save that image to Evernote and be able to search the text of the picture later.
Skitch:
Skitch is There are a couple of great free 21st century internet tools that every classroom teacher should use, even if just for preparing for their class. Evernote and Skitch.
The Evernote family of products can be used to help people organize and complete projects across all the computers, phones and tablets they use. Teachers could also incorporate these tools into their lessons by having students use Evernote to work collaboratively on a notebook or to save their works in process.
Evernote lets users take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether they are at home, work, or somewhere in between. It is like saving work to the cloud, but with folder structures you control.
According to the article 10 Evernote Tips for Schools the author key headline is "10 Great ways students can use Evernote to study Smarter and not Harder". Another article i found on the Evernote blog was by Buffy Hamilton. Ms Hamilton's said "Evernote would be a perfect solution for the students’ need to archive and organize traditional and non-traditional sources of information." With Evernote's ability to search pictures for text, studnet scan even take a picture of a document they need and save that image to Evernote and be able to search the text of the picture later.
Skitch:
Skitch is a popular free screen snapping and annotation tools available from Evernote. Because Skitch is part of the Evernote family you can save all of your Skitch files directly to a designated notebook in Evernote and also easily add your Skitch files to an Evernote document). In Skitch, you can take a photograph or screenshot and write directly on it to make your point quickly. You can also use Skitch like a whiteboard or a drawing tool. In this video a young girl demonstrates how easy it is to use Skitch.
Once the changes or annotations have been completed the user can rename the finished image. There are also options to share the image or delete it to start a new one.
Key Benefits of Skitch include the ability to:
- Uploading and synching Skitch notes or screenshots to Evernote, with available sync options.
- Being able to search through Skitch notes for text annotations, including handwriting.
- Importing previous screenshots from Skitch 1.x.
- Pixelate and Highlight tools
- Ability to modify the width and height of the screenshot before capture.
- Ability to easily click and resize shapes
- Ability to multi-select images for easier deletion.
- New keyboard shortcuts
