Note taking, and content curation, and Apps OH MY

This week in class everyone had to find an app related to their major and have our first App Smackdown. Some of the apps were pretty awesome like Adobe Catch, kahoot, socrative, and quiz up just to name a few. It was a quick and easy way to learn about new apps or even apps we already had but had no idea there was much more to them. My mind was blown by Evernote it is everything you need for note taking, you can audio record, embed links and photos, you can even search for a word that was in a photo!! You can scan as a PDF and even upload, and you can take picture of slides and make a notebook from it.

In the Connected educator Chapter 2 was all about developing a connected learning model. The new method for this is called connected learning communities it gives the teacher the benefit of being connected online as well as offline, There are 3 approaches to professional development which is local community(face-to-face connections), global network(individually chosen), and bonded community( global group that need connections more in depth than a PLN).Connected learning communities let parents, teachers, professional experts,etc make a thinking group to decide what is best for the children in this quick paced moving technology future. A big thing is they need to be big on diversity since a lot of students ideas stem from different cultures and ideas. #connectedlearner

19 practical Evernote tips, this article basically give you the ins and outs of Evernote adding to what i went over before. You can snap pictures of list, slides, even homework and will be able to find it easy and also edit and add anything you need to. You can even tag books you want to read just take a picture of the cover and of course save any of your work or even your kids drawings, you can even make your own to do list. You can do group work and share quite easily and if you cant get to your computer or your handwriting looks like chicken scratch you can type or text your assignment. Whats really cool is you can send messages or notes directly to your evernote app and can even label pictures and save them too. 

Simplifying Evernote also went in the direction of the 19 tips, it goes into how to do short term storage and long term storage. Of course it goes over how you can search by words from a photo and how you can sort and organize your display. 

Pocket now aids those with Dyslexia with a new font that helps people who suffer from it not be confused by the letters. I thought this was great since I am actually dyslexic when it comes to numbers so this a huge step for the app users. Since Pocket is all about reading this will help their readers who are dyslexic still enjoy their articles and have a much easier time reading. It gives all users support for the font Dyslexie, which is designed to create subtle changes in character structure to prevent confusion between letters that look similar.