More Great Tips and Resources for Using Evernote

Evernote is one of my favorite resources and tools that I use daily as a teacher, student, writer, presenter, and person. Evernote is a way to get organized. It is a great, free resource that allows you to easily capture information using whatever device or operating system you use. It then makes this information accessible and searchable from anywhere. Their tagline: “Remember Everything.” It is a digital notebook that allows you to take text notes and audio notes, clip web pages, upload images and files, and much more.

This year, I was lucky enough to win a free premium account for me and my students, along with training from Evernote, and I will be documenting my journey and experience on this blog.

Evernote is easy to use, but there are many features that people don't know about and some features that do take a little help to use. Here are some great resources for using Evernote:

1. Three Evernote Email Tricks - you can email notes to yourself and others can share notes with you via email.

2. 19 Practical Evernote Ideas for Students - free PDF download with great tips and ideas for Students.

3. How to Use Evernote, the Missing Manual - free PDF with great tips, how-to's and more. 

If you have never used Evernote, now is a great time to get started. If you do use Evernote, check out these great resources to help you get more out of it. 

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Adobe Foundation and Discovery Education partner for Digital Media Curriculum

      

The Adobe Foundation and Discovery Education have partnered together to provide free curriculum and resources to help educators use digital media to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. The curriculum will be provided through the Discovery Educator Network and includes access to professional development resources, webinars, video tutorials, community forums, classroom materials activities and online resources. The curriculum offers material in print and web design, photography, motion graphics and video editing.

It is part of the Adobe Youth Voice program which promotes technology based creative skills.

Check out some more information about it: http://youthvoices.adobe.com/essentials/

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Anatomy of a Teacher - infographic with interesting data on teachers and schools

Anatomy of a Teacher is an interesting infographic with data on teachers - percentage female vs. male, public vs. private schools, student/teacher ratios, salary, working hours and more. Take a look and see if the data matches your situation and share it with others.

Source: http://mastersinteaching.org/infographic-anatomy-of-a-teacher/ 

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Attachment Viewer for Gmail - view & edit docs and more in Gmail

I use InstallFree Nexus and Rndr on my Chromebook and in Chrome to LibreOffice and Java on any device, including my Chromebook.

They have another great extension for Chrome, Attachment Viewer for Gmail, which lets you view, edit, save and share attachments in Gmail. You can work with Office and other document formats directly from Gmail, on any device running Chrome, including Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, Linux, Mac and PCs. This means you can work on them directly in your browser without any installs or downloads on your device.

This is a great resource for Chromebooks and shared computers and is very useful in educational settings where you don't want files downloaded or shared computers are being used.

Get it in the Google Chrome Web Store or go to InstallFree's website for more information.

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Great resources for managing your work with technology

Managing Your Work with Technology is a site I just found out about that has some great resources and tips for using technology to get organized and manage your workflow and resources. The site is from Dr. James Hansen, a Professor at Oakland University.

The resources are organized by "work realms" including Time, Information, Documents, Files and Information Sharing. In each realm, Dr. Hansen lists the free resources that he uses to manage these realms and how.

Many of the resources are resources I use and have blogged about, like Google Calendar, Google Drive and  Evernote, but Dr. Hansen has some great ideas and tips here that may be useful to other educators.

Check out the site. https://sites.google.com/site/resourcesandinformation/home/technology

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Lesson Planet - search for lesson plans for teachers

Lesson Planet is a site that describes itself as "The Search Engine for Teachers." It provides teacher-reviewed online resources, including more than 400,000 online lesson plans, worksheets, presentations, and videos. Our collection of free, original lesson planning articles, updated daily, provides tips and techniques for teaching a variety of topics.

Here's what the Science Lesson Plans start page looks like:

Take a look and find some lesson ideas for your classroom. Teacher Resources Discover lessons, worksheets, videos, and presentations by grade, subject, and more.

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Discovery Educator Network Open House Sept 10-14. Great free resources!

The Discovery Educator Network is an awesome, free, resource for educators, filled with other educators. The DEN is a great place to connect with other educators and share resources, ideas, lesson plans, and much more. It's not just about Discovery Education resources either. I've met some great people in the DEN and learned so much. It's a great Personal Learning Network for any and all educators.

September 10 - 14, 2012 the DEN is having and open house to share resources and how the DEN can benefit educators. There will be webinars, blog posts from educators, and much more, all for free. Come and join us!

Check out the details below for details and more information.

It’s the beginning of school, time for Open House. Well, the DEN is hosting our own Open House this month!  September 10-14, help us kick off the school year with DEN Open House Week.  We’ve got a great schedule of activities to help you share the DEN and even learn more yourself about the community.  In addition to daily blog posts about a variety of topics, we have a few special webinars and Google Hangouts scheduled.  Take a look at the information below and join us as much as possible!  This is a great chance for you to grab a colleague and introduce them to the DEN.

Monday, September 10

• Best of Matt’s Media Tips for Back to School at 3:30 and 7 PM ET
•  Registration for 3:30 session
•  Registration for 7:00 session

Tuesday, September 11

• DEN Guru Hangout (8pm ET, join at http://gplus.to/discoveryed)
• Techbook 2.0 Preview at 6 PM ET
• Register at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/sciencetechbook
• Using Notebooks and Journals with the Discovery Education Science Techbook at 7 PM ET
• Register at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/sciencetechbook

Wednesday, September 12

• Celebrate International Dot Day with our Livestream for classrooms with Peter H. Reynolds, author of The Dot at 1 PM ET
• http://denblogs.com/live
• Techbook 2.0 Preview at 5 PM ET
• Register at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/sciencetechbook
• Exciting Enhancements to Discovery Education at 7 PM ET
• Register here.

Thursday, September 13

• Exciting Enhancements to Discovery Education at 4 PM ET
• Register here.
• The Common Core Connection…. Resources from the DE Science Techbook that Build Common Core Skills at 6 PM ET
• Register at: http://links.discoveryeducation.com/sciencetechbook
• DEN Open House via Google Hangout at 7 PM ET (Register here.)

Friday, September 14

• Week End Wrapup!  Live Podcast with Steve and Dean (Time TBD, Join at http://gplus.to/discoveryed)

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