Evernote is a free online tool students can use to take notes. Your notes save onto the Evernote cloud so that you can access them at school, home, or anywhere else you may go to study! Evernote allows you to keep everything organized, and even include hyperlinks and graphics. Students can also build check lists that could help them stay organized! With more and more schools investing in personal devices for their students, using Evernote for class notes seems easy. Unfortunately, not all schools are fortunate enough to give each student a device. In addition, having any type of device in a classroom setting could easily become a distraction.
Evernote does have paid services with additional features such as offline access, and password protections across multiple devices.
As a prospective English teacher, Evernote could be a great note-taking tool for my students. I could require them to share their notes with me, so that I can check to make sure they're understanding the major themes and concepts from lessons. In addition, they could share their notes with the peers, like if a student were absent for class one day. They would easily be able to share class notes via email.
I also am going to be an English teacher and could not agree more that Evernote would be perfect for that classroom environment! It is a great tool for organization and I enjoy the fact that it allows students to share their notes and ideas with one another. This could also be used for an essay to organize ones thoughts and construct their ideas into paragraphs.
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