Evernote Portable, Versatile, Functional

By Nazila Motahari and Sarah Guite

What is Evernote?

An app to save and organize

• Notes

• Web service

• PDF’s

• Images

• Audios

• All these can be imported to Evernote and synced to cloud

• Can be viewed on a mobile device (IPOD, IPAD, mobile phone) or a PC (Mac, Windows)

• Notes can be shared with other users for viewing or modifying.

How to set up an account • PC • www.evernote.com

• IPAD

• App store

• Log in

• Ready to go!

How to set up Notebooks

• This needs to be done on the Laptop • Create one Notebook for each student in

your section.

• Note: you will automatically have a notebook created for you by default.

PC View

IPAD View

IPAD View

How to Stack Notebooks

• Notebooks can be organized as a stack for ease of viewing. E.g. Section 22 Notebooks.

• This needs to be done on the laptop

How to add attachments, images or videos

• On PC, by adding “Attachments

• On IPAD, click the “+” for a new note,

• Add photos, audios or use the camera to take a photo and add to the notes.

How to share notebooks with Students

• You can share each notebook with each student and your co-teacher(s).

• Note: You must have a Premium Version if you want your students to modify or add notes to the notebooks.($ 5 a month!). Students do not need to have a premium to modify or add notes.

How to share notebooks with Students

• Students download Evernote app before you share your notebooks with them.

• They receive an email invitation from Evernote about the shared notebook

• They need to “Verify” and “Accept/Authorize” the invitation.

Apps that work with Evernote

• Explain Everything

• Pocket/Zite

• Notes

• Skitch

• And more…..

Evernote + Explain

Everything

• Export the finished movie by selecting the video camera.

• Choose Evernote as your export option.

Evernote + Explain

Everything

• Compression takes a few minutes.

• Choose destination folder and upload.

• Enter the name of the movie.

Evernote + Explain

Everything

• Your Explain Everything video will be added to the destination folder.

• It is added as a link (the file is not directly embedded into Evernote).

The EE Video appears as a link. It will open

in your iPad/computer.

Evernote + Skitch

Evernote has acquired Skitch.

Use the same login and password with both.

Skitch View

• Skitch is used to annotate over images.

• The image could be students’ work, an assignment or a diagram.

Evernote View

• Once an image is saved in Skitch, it is automatically saved in a Skitch Folder in Evernote.

• No extra steps are needed.

The Skitch folder in Evernote will show all the images that you annotated in Skitch.

Evernote + Skitch • There are two ways to

move a note around after you have used Skitch to annotate.

• #1: use the LAPTOP version of Evernote to move or copy the note from the Skitch notebook to another notebook.

• #2 : use the Skitch settings to specify which notebook Skitch should save to (see image on right).

Send emails to Evernote

• On your LAPTOP view, there will be an Evernote Elephant icon.

• Send individual emails, along with attachments, to a notebook that you specify.

• Choose your tags

• Attachments are saved as links.

Rapid Book Creator

• All student work/writing portfolios can be imported into eBooks which can be read by any epub reader.

Search Notes Using Tags: iPad View

• In iPad view, choose the “Tags” folder.

• All documents and images will be assigned tags according to their title, and according to tags that you can specify.

Evernote Tags

Search Notes Using Tags: iPad View

Search Notes Using Tags:

Laptop View

Import OneNote Notebooks to Evernote

• This must be done on the LAPTOP

• File – Import – Microsoft OneNote

• All pages will import but will be organized by date created.

• Will lose sections and subheadings.

• Can re-arrange notes into a new Evernote notebook.

Can Evernote be used by students to create learning portfolios?

• Utilize the portability of the iPad.

• Capture images, record audio and annotate websites and photos, all in one place.

• Collaborate on projects.

• Create Explain Everything videos and store in Evernote.

• Reflect on learning activities: record conversations about work and artifacts stored in Evernote.

• Make an eBook out of an Evernote notebook.

Evernote Application in Class

• Writing Portfolio

• Audio journals

• Reading Portfolio

• Lesson/project notes

• Picture diary/Mindmaps

Evernote for planning, applying knowledge and synthesizing

information

Drawbacks??

• Paid version

• Not easy to annotate

• Shared folders cannot be used for adding files from other apps

Evernote Discussion

Would you like to learn more?

Blooms Taxonomy in the 21st Century

ePortfolio slideshare, by Dr. Helen C. Barrett

How to create a portfolio in Evernote

Really useful videos about Evernote

Excellent Video on how to connect Explain Everything and Evernote