how to use evernote to manage your classroom

Evernote: Remember

everything for your classroom Stan Skrabut

@uwcesedtech#uwceshttp://www.slideshare.net/ skrabut

Over time you have collected countless resources to support your classrooms.

You are teachers who have a busy schedule.

You often have to refer to resources and have trouble finding them quickly.

You want to reduce the amount of time needed to run your classroom.

Let me provide you with ideas on how you can leverage Evernote as a teacher.

What makes Evernote so

magical?

You can access Evernote from any device.

Evernote has a desktop client that is a centerpiece of the program.

There are mobile apps for smartphones.

There are apps for iPads and tablets.

You can access Evernote...

You can access Evernote both on and off line.

Evernote is available 24 hours a day.

Most importantly, you can capture and organize ideas whenever and wherever ideas occur.

You can print your documents wherever you are.

You can add content to Evernote in countless ways.

Type in notes.

Create audio notes.

Take pictures.

With the Web Clipper you can capture Web pages as you find them.

Save notes from Kindle.

You can email yourself a note.

Some processes can be automated with folders.

Some processes can be automated with IFTTT.

Scan documents to an Evernote folder.

How can you use Evernote to improve as a

teacher?

Have your teaching materials available to you at all times.

Organize your classes with tags, e.g., you can have a tag for each week of the term.

Save templates, worksheets, assessment forms, study guides, etc. in Evernote for easy retrieval, anywhere.

Worksheets

Exams

Study Guides

Templates

Maintain lessons for your whole teaching career.

Update lessons on the fly.

Link lesson and handouts and assessments so they are all in one spot.

Archive past materials for easy search and retrieval when you need it.

Save old syllabi and course materials as reference materials

You can prevent disaster and access all of your content in the event of disaster.

Have classroom checklists available at your fingertips.

Build your lists for setting up your class at the beginning of the year, or closing down at the end of the year.

Build and share your supply lists with colleagues, parents and students.

Capture ideas to be used in your classroom as you find them.

Capture real world images that relate to your classes.

Collect articles that impact your teaching.

Quickly document your classroom and share it to Evernote.

Easily share content with colleagues and students.

Have your lesson plans available… you can also share with others with shared folders, links, or email.

Share a public folder with your class containing course content. Students can keep up even if absent.

Post link to class web page. Shared notebooks automatically update when information is added or deleted.

Scan tests automatically to an Evernote notebook, for gradebook entry, or share with teaching assistant.

Develop a notebook to share with the substitute teacher when you happen to be absent.

Using shared folders with individual students, hand back assignments when done.

Grade shared homework online.

Stop going to the copier, you can share or email a handout, syllabus, or assignment the moment it is needed.

Share lesson plans with administrators when they need them.

Share important documents with parents through a link to a folder.

Share a folder and ideas with your instructional team. Each can write to it.

Advance your professional development with Evernote.

Capture your professional development notes, resources, lesson ideas, etc.

Capture whiteboard notes, notes are time stamped.

Keep all your meeting notes in one place, available whenever you need them.

Organize your extracurricular duties and obligations

Track event checklists

Keep key information on players or participants.

Questions?

Evernote: Remember

everything for your classroom Stan Skrabut

@uwcesedtech#uwceshttp://www.slideshare.net/ skrabut