Productivity


 * What Web 2.0 tools have been helpful for you as a teacher? How are you using them? Have you found anything to help students be more organized or more productive?**

I have found both Livebinders.com, Delicious.com and Symbaloo.com to be great tools when I'm doing web searches. Each has a webclipper so you can clip websites directly into your binder, stack or webmix, and it's saved in the cloud so you can find your favorites anytime, anywhere.

My other favorite tool right now is Evernote. It's a cross-platform note-taking tool, also cloud-based, and it has helped me organize everything from my classroom notes to my meeting notes to websites I find that I want to keep handy. All of these tools are sharable, but my favorite of them all is Evernote. With the premium account you can also share notebooks with others, which is ideal for PLCs and PLNs (Professional Learning Networks). You can upload files, images or videos, and you can also keep voice notes. That's a fantastic tool for editing with your students-- as you read through their essay, instead of marking it all up, just do a voice note for them and let them listen to what you have to say. It's powerful!

--Jody