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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

So many new technology tools...

At the conference I'm at, today I learned about some other new social media and technology tools that I am going to be checking out over the next week.

  • Evernote and/or Onenote:  used to organize notes (which you can either scan in or take a picture of and import), pictures, files, voice notes, etc.  I guess you can share notes with others using this tool as well.  http://www.evernote.com/
  • Zotero: a online bookmarking and research tool used to gather and organize resources and sources researched online.  http://www.zotero.org/
  • RSS feeds which can "help save time reading websites: for more information on RSS go to http://www.commoncraft.com/video/rss
Also, last night I used Picnik for the first time to resize a picture to post in Moodle.  It took me a few tries to get it right (plus then the Internet went down and I wasn't able to actually post it last night), but I think I figured it out.  Thanks for the suggestion Helen! :)
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  1. Helen MROctober 5, 2011 at 8:30 AM

    It sounds like you are picking up great ideas at this conference! Thanks for sharing these tools with us! I need to revisit Evernote because it was one of those apps that I downloaded some time back and then have forgotten to use -- eek! I find RSS feeds absolutely invaluable (I use Google Reader for these), because there is no way I could keep up with information from different sources (including our 8009 class blogs!) without this!

    Way to go with Picnik and editing photos! :)

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  2. Jamison PatrickOctober 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    Susan,

    Evernote recently increased its features, adding the ability to record the meeting in addition to taking notes. Once recorded, just as you can do with your notes, you can store/share the audio file.

    I did not like Evernote the first time I tried it. However, now that it has this new function, I am eager to try it, again.

    Jamison

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