Using Evernote for Teaching and Learning

After reading, watching a video on Evernote, and being able to get hands-on knowledge on how it works, there are many great ideas that came into mind as to use the program inside the classroom. As a teacher, when I go into the different trainings I’m supposed to have going on in my classroom or the wide variety of resources we as teachers need to allow the students to have. Evernote is an awesome tool to target all diverse students at different paces because it not only serves as a way to integrate technology, but it promotes ways of taking notes and expressing their learning in a variety of ways. Since I am currently a 5^th grade bilingual teacher teaching ELAR and Social Studies, I have based my three ideas in the work setting I am on right now which is in a 5^th grade ELAR classroom.

One idea of how I am able to use Evernote in the classroom is since the district I’m in has issued a chromebook to each student for educational purposes, I would have the students take notes and post a blog daily on the notes they took. The blog would help them to reteach and recall all the information daily and store it in a digital copy as well as a written one. Not only would they have a blog, but every Friday, I would have them do a recap of all the weekly notes and compile them in Evernote. What I really like about this program is that you are able to insert pictures, record your own voice and attach the recording, and type information, and by allowing this kind of re-teaching to happen with technology with visuals, auditory support and text support, it allows me to target the linguistic diverse students who still struggle with English and my SPED students.

Another way that I can use Evernote in my 5^th grade Social Studies classroom is by having them explore a state and publish an Evernote into their blog as well so that the other students can view it as well and learn the basic information of that specific state alongside a picture and a descriptive of the population, way of living, etc.

The third way that I am able to integrate and use Evernote in my 5^th grade ELAR and Social Studies classroom is by having the students define the vocabulary words that were taught in the content. Not only will the students define it, but they would also use it In a complete sentence as to where they would record their own voices, they would draw a picture of the word and attach it to their Evernote as well and present to the class once all groups were done.