7 Great Note-taking Tools for Teachers and Students. This is another post that was prompted by a reader's email. The email was looking for a list of recommended note-taking tools. I've reviewed a lot of note-taking tools over the last five years, but I have never made a list. So here's my list of seven great note-taking tools for students and teachers. InClass is a free iPhone and iPad app that could be a very useful tool for students carrying those devices. Color Note is a simple note-taking app that I've been using on all of my Android phones for the last year (yes, it's been a rough year for phones in my life).
Save Meeting is a meeting recording app for iOS and Android devices. Notes.io offers a simple platform for taking and sharing notes. No list of note-taking tools would be complete without mentioning Evernote. MySchoolNotebook is a service for taking, saving, and sharing notes online and offline. Top 10 Best Android Apps for Teachers - PinDigit. A Free Complete Guide to Evernote. Blooms Taxonomy with Apps. Creative Apps To Use With Students On The iPad. iPads in The Classroom : A Great Free eBook. Creating Book Trailers with iPads. When I found out our school was going 1:1, I was very excited. I felt ready to ntegrate technology due to coursework I had taken through our local writing project, Prairie Lands Writing Project. This learning track is structured around 21st Century learning. We experienced many technology integrated writing assignments to better engage students in the writing process.
One of my favorites was creating Book Trailers. The Book Trailer was introduced as an alternative to the traditional book report. We all know how traditional book reports work: read a book, then write a summary to prove you read the book. So what is a Book Trailer? Here is a sample: Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn Ready to try your own? Read and book.Write a summary outline. As students began finishing their projects, we had a class viewing party to watch their Book Trailers. Here is a sample of an unfinished book trailer we viewed during the viewing party: Carley’s Book Trailer Kickapoo Book Trailers wiki. How to Create a Portfolio with Evernote (Education Series) Bio Rob is a teacher at Trillium Charter School in Portland, where he primarily instructs students aged 8-11.
He has been working to develop online portfolios with students for the past six years and has taught in private schools, traditional public schools and public charter schools for the past 15 years. I use Evernote, Everywhere: iPhoneiPod TouchiPadMacWindows E-Portfolios: a student’s project warehouse and progress tracker I started teaching 15 years ago and that is when I first came across this concept of a ‘portfolio.’ A portfolio is a storehouse for projects, writing pieces, art, and performances. Initially, I had my students create paper portfolios. We had a bin where we’d put these documents and at the end of the year, they’d have 10-20 pieces that they’d take with them into the next school year. Evernote as an portfolio system I was using portfolios with limited success and spending a lot of time on them, until Evernote came into the picture.
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