BUT, we want kids to be able to “publish” their work for the larger community (Anastasis community and the wider education community). You see, we had this truly convoluted way of getting student work from Evernote portfolios to an edublog or an edu 2.0 blog. Postach.io is quickly becoming my new BFF. This means that if a student iPad gets lost, damaged, etc. Not only is learning captured on the device, but it is stored in the cloud. Parents can login to their child’s Evernote account from any computer or iDevice to see what they are working on. Teachers often send students a PDF instructions for an assignment or a picture to the student’s Evernote account. Recording learning on a field trip? Check. Another HUGE benefit to the Evernote/iPad combo: it goes with them everywhere.
All of the incredible projects that our students create during inquiry can be reflected in Evernote portfolios. Snap a picture or create a short audio recording directly in Evernote and the learning is captured, searchable and sharable. Evernote makes it easy to capture learning that isn’t natively digital in their eportfolio. Notes can be shared and emailed to teachers and parents alike. For the most part, this works brilliantly! Students can record text, images, and audio directly into Evernote. At Anastasis, we use Evernote as our digital portfolio. I digress… this post is about Evernote and some neat new add-on apps I’ve been playing with. (This could also be the optimism that comes with every summer when schedules are a little looser and there is more time to dream). Like we have a great groove to work from and now anything is possible. This feels like the year that all of those nagging things that we wish we had time to tweak are going to happen. I’m not sure what it is about heading into year 3, but it feels substantial and important. We have just wrapped up our second year of Anastasis Academy.
Also, no one warned me that I would be licking cheap envelopes while everyone else was enjoying the freedom of summer. You know what no one tells you about starting a school? That ending a school year is WAY more work than starting a school year.
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