Evernote

In this blog, a teacher talks about using Evernote to remind his students when assignments are due and to remind them about the homework for that night. I like this idea, especially because so many students are reliant on technology to remind them to take medicines, keep appointments, and various other things. By integrating Evernote into your students' education before college, it will make college easier for them to be organized. I wish that I knew about Evernote before this class because I work two jobs and am taking five classes. When I try to make plans with friends, I have to look at all of my schedules if I did not have time to write it down in my planner, and sometimes that does not even work.

I also thought that the video on Penultimate was really awesome. It is a great way to organize notes and recipes, directions, and really just about anything that you want to put on there. Rather than carrying around multiple notebooks, address books, recipe binders, etc., you can use Penultimate and sync it with Evernote to create folders and sections to keep yourself organized.

I liked how Nussbaum-Beach and Hall described the connected learning communities as a combination of three things, as a three-pronged cord. Connected learning communities contain your local community (personal learning network), global network (professional learning community), and bounded community (a community of practice or inquiry). Basically, this is three groups of people which has are one face-to-face, another online, and the last people who have the same interests and want to connect together on a deeper level (page 28).