Weekly Report and Reflection - 6

             I actually never heard of Evernote tool before, but after hearing about it I simply felt astonished because of the amount of features that it has to offer. This tool can be used for the people who are affected by short term memory loss problems. That can be prevented by storing specific ideas that we see, hear, taste or even smell, essentially falls under everything. I have a major problem in recalling something, especially school related matters and even a simple thing. I feel grateful to learn about this specific tool, this will help me in the long run and will allow me to stay organized.

            I would come across so many thoughts throughout my day I would refuse to write it down because of my laziness and I would assume that I will remember, but in reality that is not the case. After hearing about this tool I got so excited I felt though there is a solution for my problem now instantaneously I can simply record everything. Especially using my phone I can access it anywhere, organize it the way I want it to appear and share with people to get their feedbacks. I realized this can be beneficial for group presentations and we can simply have access to all the group members’ information.  As mentioned in this article there are so many features that we can access within Evernote like web clipping, create new tags, create new text notes, use tags, how to modify note source/URL attributes, how to work with notebooks, sharing and collaboration and the power of sync. Even though, there are number of articles posted on Sakai, I felt though I needed to do my own research to clarify some doubts.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos and also because I ‘am a visual learner so I need to see videos and picture in order to comprehend all of the information in proficient matter.

           

Mergy.J. (2012, May 14). Evernote  Retrieved from http://mergy.org/2012/05/use-the-evernote-clipper-with-safari-on-ipad-and-iphone/

                    I would definitely add this to my PLE under “learn and create” because this allows me to have new categories of the new tools that I learn about every week. This week on feed, I have come across this article about iPhone 5C and how it exploded in an individual’s pocket during Valentine’s Day. I also use iPhone, I was concerned anyone who is using the iPhone I guess they should be extra cautious or research about it. That sounded pretty dangerous to me that individual was also admitted to the hospital due to that incident.

          

         I read all the comments on this article about Evernote and people seems to be having good experience with it and they also inspired me to open my own account. I was really fascinated to know that we can have access to Evernote using any digital device. By using Evernote, I know that I will be up to date with everything, especially in school. I also have a bad habit of not saying works and I have lost my works in many incidents, but I know this will not happen again because it will automatically save my work. I will never need to worry about losing my work ever again and I can just keep building my ideas. I realized the importance of understanding digital literacy and the sub-topics that fall under digital literacy issues, examples of inappropriate/appropriate digital literacy and digital literacy keywords”(Ribble, p.27).

Sinkov, A. (2011, March 29). Evernote Retrieved from https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2011/03/29/the-shiny-new-evernote-web-redesigned-interface-expanded-note-sharing-options-and-more/

         Overall I had a great experience in exploring Evernote and I will definitely use this in the future, mostly for my education purpose. I will share this with my friends who are not taking this course so that they can also benefit from this. My knowledge is keep improving every week as we are discovering about new Digital tools and I feel confident. Thank you.