Evernote

https://evernote.com

Some photos are on our smartphones and others sit on our home computers. Our digital work documents, favorite web clippings and notes from meetings are scattered everywhere. Evernote provides a comprehensive single archive of our digital life, giving us one location to store and find practically everything saved on a computer or phone. The files are automatically backed up on Evernote’s servers. It even makes sharing things with others much more easily than emailing attachments around.

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free mobile app that helps us remember everything across all the devices we use as well as helps us stay organized, save our ideas and improve productivity. It lets us take notes, create to-do lists, capture photos, record voice notes as well as it makes these notes completely searchable, whether we are at home, at university, at work, or on the go. Actually, Evernote is as the place we put everything we might need later. We can just simply drag it in, tap it in or forward it in, and then search for it, share it or post it later.

The free version of Evernote lets us add and save up to 60 megabytes of content to our files every month which is enough for a couple of dozen full-size iPhone photos or a hundred big Word documents. The archive can grow as big as it needs to be. The premium version costs $5 per month, which increases the limit from 60 megabytes a month to a gigabyte a month, enough for hundreds of photos and adds a few more features for heavy users. Evernote works with every computer and mobile device we own; it works on Windows and Mac computers, and on iPhones, iPads, Android and Windows phones and tablets, BlackBerry devices, and even Hewlett-Packard’s WebOS gadgets.

  

Evernote is an excellent resource for education. Teachers can create a “note” for each student and add notes about student academic progress and/or classroom behaviors, lesson plans, task lists and lesson resources. Audio of a student reading could also be added. Moreover, it is great tool to have for parent/teacher meetings or conferences. Students can use Evernote to take note in class, organize their work and homework, collect data for their projects, create a how-to by taking photos of each step and adding voice or text explanations, even record a lesson in class or take a snapshot of the whiteboard or smartboard to help them complete their work and homework.

 Break Down:

        o   The Good:

    Effortlessly Syncs notes across the computers and devices we use (syncs over the web between all devices).

·         Give access to your notes, images, and voice recordings on all of our devices.

·          Organize notes by notebooks and tags.

·         Takes text, photo, audio and other kinds of notes.

·         Searching for text inside images.

·        Working on Mac/PC, iPhone, iPad.

·        Connecting to other app we use.

  Share-by-email feature works without launching a separate email app.

  Adding a PIN lock to your Evernote app.

               o The Bad:

·          Rich text editor can be frustrating.

·         It does not support native handwriting capabilities.

·      Not GPS-enabled for location-based notes.

o   The Bottom Line: Because it effortlessly syncs and makes searchable all notes, Evernote iPad app remains an essential productivity tool as all iPad owners should install it.

 Rating: 4 (Very Good).

    

    

    Done By: Bdoor (544).

Edmodo

One of the best ways to teach with tech



https://www.edmodo.com/

We are in stage to moving to a world where you can look at specific skills and specific learners and understand what's working for specific types of learners. Empowering teachers is the only path to receiving better outcomes.

Using Edmodo, teachers request students into private groups that can be used for online classroom conferences, but in a format that keeps the teacher inflexibly in control. Teachers give students a class signup code, which can be deactivated once all students have signed up, and students in turn are encouraged to share the code with their parents, allowing them to monitor their own child's activity. As an invitation-only social network, Edmodo is meant to mirror a secure offline classroom that intruders cannot access, with rules of decorum enforced by software. For example, students are not allowed to pass private messages to other students in class. They can post only to the group or the teacher, and group messages can be moderated by the teacher.

Break Down:

o   The Good:

Edmodo is meant to mirror a secure offline classroom that intruders cannot access, with rules of decorum enforced by software

o   The Bad:

There are some cons in the website. Difficulty to register distract the student’s attention. Also, it doesn’t clear guide line to register.

o The Bottom Line:

      Students can keep track of what's due on the Assignments page,in the anther  Empowering teachers is the only path to receiving better outcomes.

      Rating: 4 (Very Good).

Done By: Emad (201202692).


Educational Technology Web 2.0 software

Does anyone knows the one place for teachers to create and deliver lessons digitally?

You are right! Blendspace is the best place.

Visit the Edcanvas home page to see how it works and how easy it can be to start building and sharing a great lesson. Once there, you'll see and experience tons of resources that you can start using right away to enhance your lessons.

https://www.blendspace.com/

 General overview:

              Edcanvas is a fairly new free Web 2.0 tool. I see so much potential for it as a support system for good, strong lesson plans. The education community is growing at Edcanvas. Here's what the Edcanvas team has to say about their tool: "Edcanvas is the one place for teachers to create and deliver lessons digitally. Teachers and students can use Edcanvas to organize their work and present knowledge." Pretty neat concept, Through the use of canvases that you build and create following simple steps, you are organizing, presenting and sharing online resources with your students and colleagues in a way that's vibrant and unique.

What does it do for the field of educational technology:

             The ability to access lesson plans online about anywhere in the world will make learning easier and more sufficient.  Teachers can download well structured lessons online and deliver it to the students. Online colorful lesson plans can be more interesting to students, videos can be attached.

Provide a break down

1.     The Good: Edcanvas allows teachers to control the online environment. with monitoring and approving content, the dangers associated with social media can be avoided.

2.     The Bad: A school's social media must be managed by someone who understands social media and is passionate about the school. Otherwise students will feel it isn't authentic.

3.     The Bottom Line: Edcanvas should be used in all educational institutions.

My rating is 4.9 out of 5.

Google Classroom



The easy way to Enhance your knowledge at home

http://www.techlearning.com/index

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Google Classroom is planned to help teachers create and gather assignments paperlessly. In this online training series, tutors will learn about Classroom from both the teacher and student perspective.


Classroom is available to anyone, a free suite of productivity tools including Gmail, Drive and Docs.
Classroom is designed to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly, including timesaving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized.

Students can keep track of what's due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom.


Break Down:

o   The Good:

Google Classroom helpful to teachers create and gather assignments paperlessly. also Classroom is available to anyone, a free suite of productivity tools including Gmail, Drive and Docs.

o   The Bad:

There are some cons in the website. Ads are supported which distract the reader attention. Also, it doesn’t offer example of classes as movies.

o The Bottom Line:

      Students can keep track of what's due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click

      Rating: 4 (Very Good).

Done By: Emad (201202692).