Friday, June 15, 2012

Evernote

Evernote http://evernote.com/
has been a tool in my box for a long while.  It is a great way to save, organize  and curate sites across devices.  I love the Firefox add on web clipper,
 which lets me clip a page, or a section , and organize and annotate the clip very quickly.

I really like the ipad app, which lets me use my ipad to take pictures and add them to my various collections.
Classroom idea:  If you have an ipad, you can use Evernote and your ipad camera to quickly make a record of a students project, or presentation. Create notebooks on Evernote  for each student. Add your images and quick notes. Then when you access the work  later, you have a visual record of what you originally saw.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Picmonkey

Picmonkey
http://www.picmonkey.com/

 has been my go to photo editor since the demise of picnik,  It is a very handy tool for adding text and effects to photos.



Classroom idea;  Encourage students to acknowledge their sources by requiring a creator caption on all used images.  Picmonkey makes this easy.