Making it Easy with

Evernote

http://bit.ly/evernotepresentatio

n

What is it?• a suite of software and services

designed for notetaking and archiving.

• a "note" can be a piece of formatted

text, a full webpage or webpage

excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo,

or a handwritten "ink" note.

• Notes can be sorted into folders, then

tagged, annotated, edited, given

comments, searched and exported as

part of a notebook.

What makes is

special?

• You can synchronize all this information

across multiple devices.

What could you use it

for?• Keep anecdotal records of

assessments/learning skills/behaviour

• Create digital portfolios of student work

• Record conferences

• Organize research for lesson plans

• Provide multimodal feedback on

student work and share with

parents/students using a url

Getting Started

• Note: a simple item stored in Evernote

Getting Started

• Notebook: A container for notes

Step 1

• Install Evernote on your computer. It’s a

free download www.evernote.com

Step 2

• Create a user account (you will be

prompted to do this the first time you

open Evernote)

• The account is necessary to keep notes

synchronized across devices

Step 3

• Creating a note

Step 3

• Once you’ve created that note you

can access it anywhere you have

access to the internet. (If you buy the

Premium version you can access it

offline.

Step 4• Create notes from the web using a web

clipper

• Go to www.evernote.com/products

• Click on “webclipper”

Step 4

• This will install a button in your browser

you can use to clip webpages or

portions of webpages

Step 4

Using Evernote to

Provide Feedback

Step 1

• Create a

notebook for

each student

Step 2• Once you’ve

created each

one, drag each

name on top of

the next to

create a

“notebook stack”

• You can rename

the notebook

stack

Step 4• To create a new note for a specific student,

open up the student’s notebook and create

new note

Step 4• But what if you want to record a

conference?

Step 5• Importing files to record multimodal

feedback

Step 5

• Evernote will create

the new note for you

in the student’s

notebook

Click on

the Skitch

app to

annotate

the

assignmen

t. It will

save a new

version as

a PDF with

your

annotation

s

Creating a note with audio feedback is a bit

different. You have to copy and paste the actual

text.

1) Download the file.

2) Open it up.

3) Copy and paste.

4) Paste into a new note in the student’s

notebook

Choose audio or video as your

recording method.

My preferred method is to:

1) Copy and paste the text to create a new

note.

2) Highlight errors, or anything else I want

to talk about them.

3) Make a recording where I explain what

I’ve highlighted.

4) Share the note with the student.

Share URL with student. They don’t need to have

Evernote

Tags• Tags are key words used to organize,

sort and help you find notes.

Next steps• Using Evernote on mobile Devices

On your phone, it looks

a little different but it’s

easier to take multi-

modal notes.

Evernote will

automatically sync

your notes so if you

look at them on your

computer, they’ll be

the same.

Tip: you can access

your notes online

with a computer that

doesn’t have

Evernote by logging

in to the website.

Privacy

• Don’t store highly sensitive data in

Evernote. Consider giving students

code names or use first name and last

initial

• Your account is password protected but

it’s better to be safe

Your Thoughts?

• How could you use Evernote?

• What questions do you still have?