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Evernote is an online notebook system that allows web clipping, shared notebooks, tagging, voice recording, annotation, and a host of other tools through its add-on apps: Skitch, which allows for screen capture and image annotation; Penultimate, which allows for handwritten notes on a tablet, which can then be synchronized to Evernote notebooks; and Peek, which allows for the creation of quiz-like lessons.
 * What is Evernote ****?**

Evernote allows for paperless multimedia note-taking - recording audio, video, still images, and screenshots, not to mention embedding documents and PDFs ; it has the potential to (finally) do away with notecards as a research tool. It allows access across devices - phones, tablets, and PCs, using both applications and the web. It allows (asynchronous) sharing of files for collaboration. It allows tagging, so that resources on a topic can be found easily, and it’s searchable. It collects URLs and records the date of webclippings (which students are __always__ losing), making for easier citation of web sources.
 * What are the benefits of Evernote? **

We created an Evernote notebook about using Evernote. Once you get in, click on the tags on the left to see resources in each of the following categories: student uses, teacher uses, tutorials, add-ons, classroom applications, research, etc.
 * Here is an Example of an Evernote notebook we created. **


 * Evernote Activity **
 * 1)  Join Evernote . Install Evernote web clipper in Chrome and login.
 * 2) What’s something you want to learn more about? I like zombies. I’m going to start researching zombies. I’ll collect at least six resources using web clipper, and give them all tags.
 * 3) You know what? I’m also interested in mummies, so I’m going to make a new notebook and call it “mummies.” I should also probably make one for zombies.
 * 4) I like vampires too. New notebook!
 * 5) Hmm. Zombies, mummies, and vampires are all undead. What if I want to make a new stack called “undead” that has all those notebooks in it? I just have to drag one notebook on top of the other and name the new stack.

See the “student uses” tag in the shared notebook above. This tag collects some of the ways students are using it for research, note-taking, and organization. The following is a screenshot of one of Jennifer’s student’s responses to a Quickwrite prompt, shared in Evernote. He saved his own copy of the poem, then responded below.
 * How can I use Evernote in my classroom? **
 * Student Examples **

Here’s another screenshot - this student used Evernote to take notes on webclipped Fair Use guidelines - the colored portions of the text are the parts she wants to use later on, and the source information is all right there when she gets ready to make a Works Cited.

See the “teacher uses” tags in the shared notebook above. This tag collects some of the ways teachers are using it for documentation, planning, and organization. Below is a screenshot of the Reading and Writing across the Curriculum Notebooks Jennifer has shared with colleagues - content-area teachers can use tags to find resources specific to their discipline.
 * Teacher Examples **

We used this tag to denote the ways teachers and students might use Evernote together - as a tool for developing reading fluency, as a means of recording Lit Circle discussions, or as portfolios of student work, among many other uses. Below is a screenshot of Jennifer’s school Evernote notebook - each of the students in her first block class has a notebook, shared with her, and there are also notebooks for Quickwrite prompts and handouts students can copy and move into their own notebooks. If it looks a little thin, it’s because we’ve had technical difficulties.
 * Classroom Applications **