My Things--First I decided to try Evernote-I had been dying to set this up ever since Angela Strong shared her so wonderfully organized recipe collection at a CapReg BOCES SLS mtg.. It took all my willpower not to start setting up an account right then and there on my iPad. Well I got bogged down with author visits, school plays, and a plague bestowed upon me by a hacking first-grader, and I just got around to creating an account. My first clip was Jacque Torres' chocolate chip cookie recipe. I took a look the Buffy Hamilton piece about using Evernote with students. I only have K-8 students and I feel the tool is better suited for high school. However, I would definitely pilot this tool with my gifted group-both as tool to organize their notes, and to use as shared forum for notes, articles, and digital ephemera. As for teachers, librarians, etc, what a great way to share and organize.
My other tool I decided to use was DropBox. I signed up for this years ago and never used it. So I finally added my school files from my laptop to a dropbox folder. I am anxious to get the files I have created on my work accounts into drop box. I am not nearly as neat and organized on my work computer and now I can organize and access my work documents at home. Now while Dropbox is a great tool, I am a an apple devotee and really do prefer iCloud. While I have an older operating system on my laptop and cannot upgrade to Lion, I do manually add my stuff to iCloud (Lion does it for you). In addition I love the opportunities available with iTunes, and the photo backup. I know this can all be done with Dropbox...but Apple is Apple.
I have to buckle down and get my iCloud account set up. My clouds are getting confused! Found a tool called Otixo to keep track of what's in each cloud. Crazy....
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