Week 6 -- Evernote

Hello Bloggers!

This week, we talked about Evernote and all the good it has to offer. For those of you who have not been introduced to Evernote, I definitely think that it is a great tool to use for one's future endeavors. Personally, I haven't really used Evernote before, but after completing this session, I feel that I will be using it much more. Evernote grasps many different forms of information into one webpage (Hamilton, 2010)! You can have so much on your Evernote, such as notes, emails, photos, and even different web sites. It can hold as much information that you want it to hold, organize it and even share it if you want to (Hamilton, 2010). Also, with Evernote, you can tag key words throughout your notes and  if you want to just look at notes related to that key word, you can easily search it. It is almost like searching a hashtag on a Twitter account. This tool will be very useful in my educational activities because it is very easy to use and keeps all of your information organized, and I LOVE organization. I will be using this tool for most of my courses for things like,

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•            note taking
•            schedules
•            to do lists or tasks 
•            research project for ADED 1P32
•            drafts of my blog posts

The layout of Evernote is very simple and I like how organized everything is, which is why I will be using this more often than not.  

I think that this is a great tool for my Personal Learning Environment or Personal Learning Network because it can be used quite often. This tool is very multi purposeful, thus meaning that it can be used for so much stuff whether it is for school or home. I will definitely be adding this to my PLN because I will be using this tool for almost everything! Within my Personal Learning Environment, this would fit perfectly under synthesizing/creating or organizing content. Since this tool is very multi purposeful, it can fit under two categories within my PLE. Under the category, synthesizing and creating, it fits perfectly because you could be creating presentations on it starting with the research aspects and it will keep it very organized for you which is critical when doing research. It can also fit under the category of organizing content because it allows you to have different tabs on different topics and under each tab is a list of your notes in order from when you take them. This permits you to have multiple notes within one tab which is great for weekly schedules and weekly note taking. With the addition of this tool, my PLE is building up more and more each week!

Since I personally enjoy health and fitness, continuing on with a link from my feedly reader, Which Plays a Bigger Role in Weight Loss: Diet or Exercise? is a great website to read if you are interested in fitness. It is an educational website with a video which demonstrates weather diet or exercise is better for you. Being in the kinesiology field, I know that a mix of both is the perfect combination to a healthy fit life.

Thanks for reading!