Digital Notebooks : Digital Notebooks An Amazing Resource for Research, Clarity, and Organization Presentation Materials at:
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Ustream.tv/vanishingpoint Scott Weidig
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Email: scottweidig@me.com
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Let's Get to Know Each Other : Let's Get to Know Each Other Who am I? Scott Weidig
Technology Coordinator
District 211 ~ Schaumburg High School Who are you? VanishingPoint
www.scottweidig.com
scottweidig@me.com
What are YOUR goals? : What are YOUR goals?
Why a Digital Notebook : Why a Digital Notebook Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities…
Why Use Digital Notebooks? : Why Use Digital Notebooks? Need a convenient way to gather and save information?
Desire the ability for near instant recall of information?
Want the possibility of anywhere anytime access?
Need the ability to share and collaborate on information?
Interested in pulling together a variety of content in one place?
Research : Research Provide the ability to cut and paste to gather information quickly and accurately (with source detail)
Provide the ability to add a variety of types of information.
Add rich dynamic content (depending on the tool)
Collaborative by design Text Pictures Audio Video Hyperlinks
Organization and Clarity : Organization and Clarity Organization
Structure – Sections / Pages / Tagging
Dynamically rearrange content
Source location easily accessible
Multiple levels and ability to layer content Clarity
Emphasize important points / topics/ ideas
Add rich content to support themes
Provide hyperlinks to background material or additional depth
Multiple view points from collaborative efforts
What are the Options : What are the Options Microsoft OneNote 2007, Zoho NoteBook, EverNote,
Google Reader…?
Google Reader : Google Reader Sharing Through Reader Copy and paste
Text
Images
Audio / Video Links
Automatically links back to original source
Collaborate on Research
Publish Notebook Information Google Reader
Evernote : Evernote Add Content in a Variety of Ways Copy and Paste
Multiple Content Possibilities
Text, Ink Notes, Images, Audio, Video
Access/Add Content from Client, Browser, Mobile
All Content Becomes Fully Searchable
Publish Content
Browser, Outlook, TaskTray Integration Evernote
Microsoft OneNote 2007 : Microsoft OneNote 2007 Seamless Integration with Microsoft Office Add ANY form of content…
Text, Ink Notes, Images
Audio/Video (record live on the fly)
Content becomes fully searchable (including audio and video)
Advanced Editing and Formatting
Embed full documents Microsoft OneNote 2007
Zoho Notebook : Zoho Notebook Multiple Forms of Content Text, Images, Audio, Video
Full EDITABLE Documents, Spreadsheets, Presentations
RSS Feeds
Fully Navigable Websites
Share and or Publish content at the Book, Page, or Object level
Built around Collaboration (integrated Skype) Zoho Notebook
Who has a topic they are interested in… : Who has a topic they are interested in… Let’s See How the Different Notebooks can Handle Information
Ways to use a Digital Notebook : Ways to use a Digital Notebook Virtual Dumping Ground Capture information and ideas
Organize (and reorganize) thoughts, concepts, people, themes…
Consolidate and track information that doesn’t fit together easily Build Depth and Harness Creativity Leverage multiple content sources in one place
Provide deep background information on a topic or concept
Collaborate with others across time and distance for a variety of viewpoints
Thoughts on Potential Uses : Thoughts on Potential Uses Shared RtI Information Professional Development Repository Student Research Log Discipline Expulsion Packet Group Lesson Planning Student Group Projects PLC’s Textbook Adoption Data Retreat Any Research Searchable Thoughts
Your Thoughts? : Your Thoughts? How can YOU leverage Digital Notebooks?
Links to Notebooks : Links to Notebooks Notebooks used in the Conference Session Microsoft OneNote 2007 (Currently no online capabilities)
Evernote: http://tinyurl.com/vpoint1
Google Note Book http://tinyurl.com/vpoint3
Zoho Notebook http://tinyurl.com/vpoint2
Photo Attributions : Photo Attributions “Day 299: I am a craigslisting-crazyman!” http://www.flickr.com/photos/patterbt/2976065589/
by patterbt
“The Stacks” http://www.flickr.com/photos/30800237@N05/3039543681/
by BaileyBeetleKVB
“Collaboration” http://www.flickr.com/photos/fncll/145149313/
by ChrisL_AK
“Collaboration” http://flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/111201180/
by quinn.anya
“Thoughts...” http://flickr.com/photos/wineandcheese/432901770/
by freelancevirtuoso (on hiatus)