Name of Lesson: Working With Evernote

Grade Level: 8 Subject: Computers Prepared by: Nathan Kieffer Overview and Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to learn to use Evernote as a tool in step 2 of the Big 6: Information Seeking Strategies. The students have already had a unit on step one of the Big 6: Task Definition. They already have assigned groups from step 1. The focus of this lesson is to learn the basics of working with Evernote including creating notebooks, creating notes, and sharing notebooks. Evernote will be used in subsequent lessons in which we continue working with the Big 6. Educational Standards (ISTE NETS-S) 2a Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media 3a Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media 4a Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project 5a Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology 6a Understand and use technology systems

Objectives: Specify skills/information that will be learned

(Comprehension Level) Explain 5 ways that they could use Evernote in school. (Application Level) Set up an Evernote account. (Application Level) Use Evernote to create a seperate notebook for each sub-topic of your research topic. (Application Level) Use Evernote to create notes inside notebooks. (Application Level) Use Evernote to share your sub-topic notebooks with members of your group and your teacher and to view notebooks that have been shared with them.

Materials Needed: Computer Lab Projector and screen Access to a computer, smart phone, or tablet device for the homework assignment. an Evernote account

Information: Give and/or demonstration necessary information 1. Explain that the students will be learning to use Evernote. Direct them to read through the information on the Evernote website http://www.evernote.com/evernote/. Display this website on the screen.

2. Elicit from the students ways that Evernote could be used as a research aid. Focus
their attention on using Evernote to collect, categorize and share information with collaborators on a project. 3. Have students read through the Evernote Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 4. Have students set up an Evernote account. This step should be straight forward as most of the students have signed up for web based services already. Circulate around classroom and give assistance where needed. 5. Direct students to discover how to create a new Notebook. Name the notebook as follows: Template: Evernote Privacy Policy and Terms of Service-<students email username> Example: Evernote Privacy Policy and Terms of Service-pete2345 They are free to use any resource at their disposal to complete steps 5-10 (Google, friends, help menu). Monitor class for difficulties with these steps. Demonstrate steps using the projector as needed. 6. Direct the students to discover how to edit notes using the Evernote editor. Monitor class for difficulties with this step. 7. Direct the students to add a new note to the notebook they created. This note will have the title Terms of Service. In this note they are to create 2 bullet lists. The first list will include 5 activities that are permitted by the Terms of Service and 5 activities that are prohibited. 8. Direct the students to add a second new note to their notebook called Privacy Policy. In this note they are to summarize the privacy policy regarding 3 topics: Personal and private identity information, aggregate data, sharing of data with third parties. This is review from previous lessons on these topics. 9. Direct the students to create a third note called How I Can Use Evernote. In this note they are to write out 5 ideas of ways they could use Evernote in school. 10. Direct students to discover how to share the notebook with the teachers Evernote account. I will provide them with the relevant account information. Monitor class for difficulties on this step and intervene when necessary. 11. Demonstrate with projector how to view notebooks that have been shared with you by others.

Verification: Steps to check for student understanding 1. Check my Evernote account for notebooks shared by students. 2. Check that each notebook has 3 notes. 3. Check content of notes against privacy policy and terms of service. 4. Check that they include 5 usage ideas based on the discussion in step 2 of information above.

Activity: Describe activity that will reinforce the lesson

Tell the students that I will be sharing a notebook with them later in the day that will contain their homework assignment. The homework assignment will be in a shared note called Homework-Setting up your Research Database. They can complete this homework assignment using a tablet or a smart-phone that has the Evernote application installed. Using the mobile application is analgous to the desktop version we worked with in class, so they should be able to discover how to add notes and notebooks. If they need help, use Google or call one of your group members for help. Contents of note: 1. Each member of your Big 6 group will create at least one new notebook. Your group will need 1 notebook for each of the sub-topics you identified in Big 6 step 1, so if you have more that 4 sub-topics, someone will have to create additional notebooks. You will have to coordinate who is creating which notebooks yourselves. 2. Title the notebooks like this: Template: Big 6: <Your Topic> <Your Sub-Topic> <Your email> Example: Big 6: Computers History pete2345 3. Add a note to your notebook containing a link to a website with information about your sub-topic. The title of this note can be Source Links 4. Share the note with all members of your group and with your teacher.

Notes For the purposes of this assignment I am stipulating that all of my students have access to a smart-phone, tablet computer, notebook, or desktop computer that has the Evernote application preinstalled. This lesson will be followed up with work on how to use advanced features of Evernote (tags, stacks, multimedia notes) and using it to collect, categorize and share sources of information about a research topic.