Evernote+-+lessons+that+last+forever

There are so many advantages in using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom, including the creating of a community of learners in your classroom, in which the learning is not just focused on individuals, but rather on the whole class growing together, and one of the other advantages being the low cost. Evernote is one of the 2.0 tools that bring these advantages to your classroom.

Evernote is an online organizational tool that allows you to clip text, images, audio, and PDF files from the web and save them to one location. Evernote can be accessed at [|www.evernote.com]. Evernote enables students to organize their research systematically and share their results with full documentation.

Teaching junior high students gives me the advantage of not just teaching my students the information, but in giving them the tools to enable them to continue learning on their own. With Evernote, I can now have them do their own research and show me their thinking how they got from point A to point B. With the help of their classmates and myself, we can see whether the route chosen was the best route to take, and if it wasn’t, why? And what could be the possible alternatives?

To me, that is the power of learning, and that is what it is all about, and I can’t wait to unleash this powerful tool in the upcoming school year.