Digital Literacy: Researching Using Evernote on the WWW

Yesterday, I did an overview of Evernote with my students and had them set up accounts. Today, I will be rolling out the first step in researching the WWW using a bookmarking and sharing (cloud-like) tool called Evernote.

I discovered Evernote along with other bookmarking type of applications a few months ago while shopping for productivity applications on my Galaxy Tab. I found two that I loved, Evernote and Spring Pad. Both store your information virtually so you can access it anywhere you have an internet connection.   That is the most important component to me because it enables freedom. Freedom of movement and ease of access. I use both applications for different reasons. I store most of my personal notes on Spring Pad, especially on lifestyle type of topics such as restaurants, recipes, books I want to read, movies I want to see etc. For research that involves work related topics, I use Evernote. The reason why is the visual layout of the Evernote window once I log in. Here is a sample of my homepage on Evernote.

The topic that I am having my students research today is the history of the Taino's of Hispanola to prepare them for a lesson I found at Zinn Education called The People Vs. Columbus. Here is the description of the lesson on our classroom website: Using Evernote for Research. I will let you know how it goes :-).