This week we had the opportunity to explore the online world and play with different programs and applications to "organize our online life." I had the task of playing with Evernote and providing a 25 minute "How to" to two other members of the cohort who tinkered with Google Drive and Blendspace. After playing with Evernote, I found out that you can use it as a virtual folder, that keeps practically any document (website, notebook entry, essay, picture, and PDF). I thought that was specifically useful for when us MACer's have research papers, and we can organize our sources and websites, and even annotate those sources in Evernote as well. Furthermore, if we saw something in the field, we could take a picture and send it to Evernote through our phones using an application. Additionally, Evernote has it's OWN email address, so anyone can send documents directly to your Evernote without having to dig through an e-mail. All of this proved to be very useful, and helped me understand the importance and stretching out my online life organization choices.
I also was introduced to blendspace, which is particularly interesting for lessons that would involve technology. Blendspace is literally a space where you can blend different videos and pictures onto a canvas and play them in any order that is useful for your lesson. I found that this will be particularly fun to use in a class that I would have on presenting a topic that can be made comprehensible through pictures and Youtube videos. I hope to incorporate all of the online applications into my classroom to appeal to many different brains and audiences.
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