[Editor's Note: If you have no idea what Evernote is check out my previous post: Evernote Invites: First Come First Served]

Evernote Has the Potential to Change the Way Teachers Manage Their Data

 Evernote is a Cool New Technology That Should be Helpful

Let’s get into some concrete examples, assuming you already know the basics of what Evernote does. Last week I ran a (sigh) workshop for seniors who have not yet passed the NYC mandated ELA Regents exam. it’s an ongoing workshop, every Monday. I was using another teacher’s room, and realized about 30 seconds after I’d finished the workshop that I had left a bunch of stuff on whiteboard that I wanted to use this coming week. I ran back to the room to find a teacher with a dry-erase marker in hand, ready to whipe away 2 hours worth of work. I told him to hang on one second, took a snapshot of the whiteboard with my iPhone, and emailed hte picture to a special Evernote email address. This is what then showed up both online and on my computer:

So, as you can see I was able to rescue my previous work re: the controlling idea. Why is this important?

Imagine if I did this for everything I wrote on the blackboard? For everything I wrote in my admittingly poor handwriting on the whiteboard? Evernote’s main attraction is its text recognition software. What that means is I can search for the word “idea”, and it’ll highlight the words in the photograph.

So now, taking my hypothetical, “everything is recorded and searchable” idea to the extreme, I now no longer have to worry about any lesson plan that I do EVER getting lost or erased. Even if I spilled Coca Cola (don’t so this) over my laptop, everything gets synced online.

Would love to hear from you re: the usability of this.

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