TCEA 2014 starts today. We arrived and got registered and found out that there were some premium sessions still open for today. After a quick lunch at the Iron Works BBQ we headed off to check out some sessions.
Clay and I attended 24/7 Evernote: Remember Everything. I am already an Evernote user and I after reading the description of the session I was concerned that I would not hear anything that I didn't already know. But I was pleasantly surprised, I picked up a few new tips about Evernote and I am now an even bigger fan of their product.
1. First new thing for me was encrypting text. I was aware that you could share your Evernote notes with others. However I did not know that you can hide some of the text from them. For example you are introduce to a new web tool, you take notes and set up an account and while you are at it you jot down in Evernote your username and password. When you decide you would like to share this with your colleagues, rather than cutting and pasting it into an email, or deleting your username and password and possibly forgetting them, you select a portion of the text and right click and choose encrypt. You create a password for the text to unencrypt it for you, but the other people you share it with cannot read the encrypted part.
2. Evernote does OCR. This was the coolest part to me. When you take a picture of a document with Evernote, the image is processed and converted into searchable text. It doesn't happen immediately it takes a little time, but it then is a searchable document. This is great for a lot of uses. Student can take pictures of things written on the chalkboard/whiteboard/overhead and then search them later. Take a picture of there notes and use then copy and paste to use them elsewhere. Awesome stuff.
Clay and I attended 24/7 Evernote: Remember Everything. I am already an Evernote user and I after reading the description of the session I was concerned that I would not hear anything that I didn't already know. But I was pleasantly surprised, I picked up a few new tips about Evernote and I am now an even bigger fan of their product.
1. First new thing for me was encrypting text. I was aware that you could share your Evernote notes with others. However I did not know that you can hide some of the text from them. For example you are introduce to a new web tool, you take notes and set up an account and while you are at it you jot down in Evernote your username and password. When you decide you would like to share this with your colleagues, rather than cutting and pasting it into an email, or deleting your username and password and possibly forgetting them, you select a portion of the text and right click and choose encrypt. You create a password for the text to unencrypt it for you, but the other people you share it with cannot read the encrypted part.
2. Evernote does OCR. This was the coolest part to me. When you take a picture of a document with Evernote, the image is processed and converted into searchable text. It doesn't happen immediately it takes a little time, but it then is a searchable document. This is great for a lot of uses. Student can take pictures of things written on the chalkboard/whiteboard/overhead and then search them later. Take a picture of there notes and use then copy and paste to use them elsewhere. Awesome stuff.
3. Cool new response tool was shared with us as well. Kahoot! (getkahoot.com) seems like it might be an interesting variant on something like infuse learning, worth checking out in more detail.