Evernote Evaluation

Evernote was a great tool to have in the classroom. When it comes to saving your work in an easily-accessible space, this was definitely the best app to use. The layout of the notes was great, and very easy to understand and use. It was very convenient to have Evernote to use, since it made notetaking much easier in class. You could type right on the app, and save it from there, rather than have to worry about sending it to yourself at the end of class. I also liked how it had a picture function, that way if I wanted to take pictures of important passages from the book, or of notes that I had handwritten , I could do that easily. The site was easy to type on, and I use it at home and on my phone as well, and I am just as satisfied with its uses on those devices. Overall, I really liked having Evernote, and I think our school should continue using that in combination with the iPads as a source of note-taking.   I didn’t like that Evernote sometimes lagged while you typed, since it made it difficult to know when you had made a mistake or not. Also, the autocorrect with things like capitalizations and periods, and simple spelling mistakes is all but nonexistent. This makes taking notes a bit more challenging since you would constantly have to keep going back to fix mistakes that you normally wouldn’t have made on a keyboard. Also, the formatting within the posting itself was difficult to use. I wasn’t aware that there was even a tab button present until the second to last day of school, when someone finally figured it out. Also, the size of the letters is usually very small, and it isn’t very easy to readjust it. I’d have liked for the formatting to be a bit more like a word document, where everything is laid out well, and there are many different options for organization. Despite all of these drawbacks, I still really felt that the use of Evernote was key to note-taking, and helped a lot in the classroom and at home.   I don’t have any major suggestions about how Evernote could be better. The only things I would say could be changed are the formatting and layout. I had trouble formatting my notes, and as I am a very visually-based person, I really like being able to use tabs and bullet points and different font sizes and things like that. Those functions were a bit difficult to use with Evernote on the iPad. Also, there could be more visual options, such as graphs and charts. That could help with overall organization, and it would especially help in the use of other classes besides English, like a math or a science class. Other than that, I think Evernot is a great app, and doesn’t have any major problems. I really liked having it to use in the classroom, and I thought that it provided major, necessary help to note-taking in class. I wish we could have gotten started with Evernote from the very beginning, rather than halfway through the year, because it really helped out.