Sunday, July 27, 2014
Organizing My Life... electronically!
I'll openly admit that I have trouble organizing my life. For that reason I like to have lots of structure around me to make sure that I'm organized. Evernote was possibly the coolest program I've found yet to help me with organization. From my professional to my personal life, this program will be awesome for organization. Since I can share notebooks with people, this will be awesome for sharing recipes with friends or even for creating my weekly grocery list. From a teaching standpoint, this will be great for collecting and storing notes, storing material for lesson plans, and being able to store lesson plans within a cloud. Let me mention that this is the best part of this program! Everything is stored in a cloud, so all I have to do is log on, plus there's even an app I can load onto my phone. To me Evernote is so versatile that it'll make my life that much easier when it comes to organization.
For our presentations I was assigned to Google Drive, which is also a great program. I can see this program being extremely useful for group work or assignments during my classroom lessons. Again, I love that everything I do is saved to a cloud so I can access it at any time from anywhere. I'd like to incorporate this into my classroom with group projects so I can easily monitor what the groups are doing and it also creates a shared space for the groups to work. I was really impressed with Google Drive, but from an organization standpoint, Evernote seems way more useful for everyday life.
Blendspace was also fantastic, and I'm hoping to use this tool for enhancing my lessons with more material. I may choose to run lessons from this website, but so far I'm planning to use this site for supplemental material. Anything extra that I think will be relevant, but not necessary for a lesson will be uploaded here for my students to explore should they be interested in further information regarding a lesson. All three of these tools will be used in my classroom, and I'm completely sold on Evernote.
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I was in charge of presenting Evernote to my group and I have been using it to create to-do lists every day since I started playing around with it last week. I totally agree that it is a very useful tool for organizing both personal and professional thoughts and content. I also believe that it is a valuable research tool because of the fact that users can save whole web pages to one easy to locate spot on the web.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with Evernote's versatility and it's use for personal/professional use, as well as use across platforms (I use it on my phone!) I would love to compete, however, in a debate showing how much use Google Drive has for professional and personal use too! I honestly felt so invested in Google Drive last week during the presentations that I felt it was superior to the others, even though it wasn't a competition. Regardless, I was happy to see how we showed that technology can play a really beneficial role in the classrooms, I think even for the most staunch anti-technology educators!
ReplyDeleteI loved Evernote's sharing capability! I think its a great way to share lectures or ideas with other teachers (yay collaboration!) I also think that Google Drive's ability to let us access document from anywhere is great! I would loose my head if it wasn't attaches to me therefore I am glad I have these two sources where I can keep all my notes and lectures and not have to worry about leaving them at home or who knows where. I think Google Drive provides a great space to do group work and at the same time keep all our stuff in one place. I have been using Google Drive for our oh so many group presentations and group work :D
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