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Social Science- Evernote

Page history last edited by Whitney Thurston 11 years, 4 months ago

What is Evernote?  

 

Evernote is a free program that enables you to create an online notebook. You can put all sorts of notes in the notebook. You can also have numerous notebooks for different subjects or categories in research. Evernote can be used in a variety of ways in the classroom including note sharing, accessing information in class folders, or organizing research for a project or report. Even though Evernote can be used many ways I will focus on one way that Evernote can be specifically useful for us Social Studies teachers. This page is dedicated to Social Studies teachers who are searching for an effective way for their students to engage in research. Whether the assigned research is of a cultural group, a world issue, or a historical report Evernote can be used to help students study the dynamic and complicated world of Social Science. 

 

How can we use it in Social Studies?

 

Evernote is a program that is highly effective as a classroom tool helping students to organize research and enabling them to share their notes with their teachers or peers. Anyone who has downloaded Evernote and has an account can share notes. This is useful for teachers to give feedback to students continually throughout the research process. It is also effective for students to categorize their research. For instance a student may have various notebooks titled “quotes”, “primary sources”, “links to scholarly sources”, “notes on books”, or “arguments for”, or “arguments against”. These categories are extremely beneficial for students understanding, navigating, and putting together their research.    

 

 

Application for Teaching:

  •       Clip a variety of sources when doing research for lesson plans and activities
  •       Share your notes with other teachers
  •       Share notes with students
  •       Create a classroom folder that can be accessed by everyone in the class including the teacher
  •       Organize information related to the content that you are teaching
  •       Have a notebook filled with all of the online videos that you reference during instruction
  •       Teachers can receive students work in real time making it easier to give back quick feedback

 

Application for Learning:

  •       Students are able to have all of their notes electronically so they are never lost or disorganized
  •       Students can scan hand written notes into their Evernote application
  •       Students can send their Evernotes or work to teacher through e-mail or by sharing them with the teacher through Evernote.
  •       Students are able to tag topics so it makes their research more navigable
  •       Students are able to copy and past links directly to their notes
  •       Students can access Evernote on a variety of devises including their iPhone
  •       Students can take visual clips and images from the internet and post them straight to their notes
  •       Students can organize a vast amount of information
  •       Students can use Evernote for more than just classroom research they can also use it for exploring their personal curiosities.
  •       Students can print research notes

 

Screen-Shot from a Student's Research Project on Women in the American Revolution 

 

 

 

 

Another Example (showing a different format, Evernote has various formats that you can put your notebooks in) of A Students Research for a Research Paper on Sociology

 

How to use Evernote:

 

You must download Evernote on ALL of the devices you wish to use it on including student's computers. Then you will need to make an account. Don't worry it is all free and can be downloaded on mac or pc, iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone. After downloading and making an account Evernote will give you a short tutorial in making your first notebook and note. This is something that you should have your students complete.

 

How to share notebooks with other Evernote users:

 

Sharing notebooks with your students can be an effective way to give them links to sources, notes, or documents. You can share any notebook with various users or just one user. If you share a notebook with various students then they all have access to change edit or add to the notes within in. If you just want one student to have access to the notebook that you are sharing then share it with them only. Sharing notebooks is simple and quick.

Directions:

1. Right click on the notebook that you would like to share.

2. Various options will come up. Choose the one that says "Share Notebook".

3. Then Evernote will ask you who you want to share it with giving you a space to enter one person's e-mail or numerous e-mails. Enter the e-mail of the student or students that you want to share the notebook with it.

 

 

Here are some links to online tutorials to help get you going:

 

Evernote Will Organize Your Life This is an AWESOME link that provides a blog from a teacher who has used Evernote in his classroom. He includes 3 videos on his blog that show how to use Evernote. The second video on there shows how Evernote can be used for student’s research. I highly recommend this blog and the second video in particular!

 

Tutorial on How to Use Evernote

 

Evernote In The ClassroomTutorial on how students can use Evernote for research

 

 

Check out these cool links for support using Evernote in the Classroom:

 

Evernote Evernote Blog from the designers. Get product updates, Tips and stories, and Podcasts.

 

Getting Started with Evernote. This page includes simple steps to help you get started and precise directions on how to work it. This site will give you direcitons on how to install Evernote and create and account. It also has directions for more technical directions including adding notes, images, syncing, and saving web content.

 

10 Tips for Using Evernote Effectively. Teachers should pay particular attention to the “Shared Folders Tip” on this site. It describes how Evernote users can share notebooks with one another. This could be a useful tool for creating an online class notebook.

 

Evernote In The Classroom This blog give teachers more ideas for using Evernote beyond research and how they can use it everyday in their classrooms.

 

Evernote also has a Twitter account so you can follow them and get links and info on how teachers and students are using Evernote in their classrooms. @evernoteschools Evernote School's Twitter Page 

 

Get Evernote from the iTunes App Store or From Evernote.com

 

Pictures taken from evernote.com and from the Evernote application

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