Summarizing+and+Note+Taking+S217


 * Shelly Riess – Week 4 **
 * Name of resource: ** Evernote
 * URL: ** []
 * Rating: ** 9/10
 * Description: ** Evernote is a downloadable note taking tool that is available for the iOS, Android, PC, and Mac platforms. There are 3 subscription levels for Evernote (Basic-FREE, Plus-$34.99/year, Premium-$69.99/year) based upon what features you like. The basic level allows up to 60mb of savable space per month and allows for syncing between two devices. With Evernote, you can take electronic notes during class, a meeting, or for your grocery list. With its simple usability anyone can learn how to use the tool. Customers are provided the option to secure their information using a passcode.
 * How aligns with Summarizing & Note Taking **** : ** As the name insinuates, Evernote was created for note taking.

Capture what's on your mind. (n.d.). Retrieved April 02, 2017, from https://evernote.com/
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 * Tawanna Swinney **
 * EDU 590 Spring 2017 **
 * 4/2/2017 **
 * Name of the Resource **: Summarizing and Note Taking—PowerPoint
 * Type of Resource **: Multimedia
 * Rating **: 10
 * Description of Resource **: PowerPoint is a multimedia application designed by Microsoft. The application allows users to create formal and informal presentations using a wide range of tools, such as, charts, tables, pictures and words. PowerPoint allows its user to demonstrate their creativity. Users can add animation and moving graphics to their presentations. Also, users can add narration to any PowerPoint and embed a time click to the presentation. The use of pre designed slides makes the creation of presentation easy for its users.


 * Alignment with Instructional Strategies: **Instructional standard ELAGSE6SL1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly, can be implemented using PowerPoint. Several activities in our textbook require that students create presentations using some form of collaborative tool like PowerPoint. Students are introduced to PowerPoint at the elementary school level in my district. Once the reach middle school, students are enrolled in Business Technology course, where they gain valuable instruction on how to use Apple and Microsoft products. PowerPoint is one of the many required activities student must accomplish when enrolled in this class.

__**Resource:**__ Note Taking and Summarizing: New Hanover County Schools Instructional Services 2008-2009 www.nhcs.net/instruction/citw%20year%20III%20links/Microsoft_PowerPoint_Summaring_and_Note_taking_PowerPoint_Presentation.pdf This is a PowerPoint Presentation from an educational website. __**Rating:**__ 9-10 __**Description:**__This a an interesting and informative that is designed to teach that note taking and summarizing are necessary learned skills that will increase a student's/trainee's ability to learn. The presentation introduces the STAR method for taking notes. The second portion of the presentation defines and describes the summarizing skill. The presentation reviews reading, listening, and viewing skills as well as analyzing information must be used in summarizing. The presentation introduces the DSK method of summarizing (Delete-Substitute-Keep). __**Alignment with Strategy:**__ This PowerPoint presentation is a valuable tool for an educator to use as one of their elements when adressing the importance of summarizing and note taking. It can be saved and reviewed to stregthen the educators understanding. __**Resources:**__ www.nhcs.net/instruction/citw%20year%20III%20links/Microsoft_PowerPoint_Summarizing_and_Note_taking_PowerPoint_Presentation.pdf Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2013). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works (2nd ed.). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Chapter 6 (p. 147-166)
 * __Summarizing and Note Taking__** Greg Burchard

=References = Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). //Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works// (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Virginia: Assoc. for Supervision & Curriculum Development. Popplet. (n.d.). //Demo//. Retrieved from Popplet: http://popplet.com/app/#/demo Popplet. (n.d.). //Popplet//. Retrieved from Popplet: http://popplet.com/
 * __Summarizing and Note Taking (Alexa Tyler): [|Popplet]__**
 * Resource:** Popplet is an application that can be ran on iOS as well as on computers and is made to allow students to brainstorm ideas and create mind maps.
 * Rating:** 7/10. While Popplet is very user friendly and great for the classroom it does not have a wide range of accessibility for those who do not use iOS or have access to traditional computers (Popplet, n.d.). It is very obvious that this program functions best when used on an iPad but the reality is that not every student will have access to such technology in the classroom (Popplet, n.d.). This app is also currently under Beta testing which means it will more than likely have several issues and bugs to work out before it is fully functional (Popplet, n.d.).
 * Description**: Popplet allows multiple users to work on a virtual style corkboard at the same time or for just an individual (Popplet, n.d.). The app is very basic in its appearance as its focus is creating a space for the user to create mind maps and create notes for various classroom exercises (Popplet, n.d.). The main purpose of the app is to “help students think and learn visually,” while capturing “facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships” (Popplet, n.d. pp. 1).
 * Alignment with Strategy:** Popplet aligns with the strategies discussed this week in the course because it’s main function it to allow students to summarize what they have learned as well as take notes. An instructor could use this application in their class and create a summary frame for their students, which is “a series of questions the teacher asks the students, designed to highlight the critical elements of specific kind of information and tests” (Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn, 2012, p. 153). Students could then take those questions and create mind maps and other visual representations of their answers to form more learning connections for themselves (Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn, 2012). This application is also shareable so that students can see other student’s virtual boards and can share their learning experiences and methods of retaining the information (Popplet, n.d.).

Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012).Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Google.com
 * __ Alli Minor – Summarizing and Note Taking __**
 * Resource ** : [|Google Slides]
 * Rating: ** 8/10. I would rate Google Slides an 8/10. I rated this app 8/10 because it is an easy way to incorporate summarizing and note taking into the classroom. It is user friendly and students are able to easily take notes and create slides to meet their needs on a given topic. There are many features within this tool that help students to create helpful notes.
 * Description ** : This tool is another, of the many, Google applications that help students in the classroom succeed. Google Slides is very similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, where students can create presentations that incorporate text, images, graphs, and other forms of data and information. Students can create presentations to meet their instructional needs that can be shared with others, or completed by a single individual.
 * Alignment: ** Summarizing and note taking is extremely important for students today and can be a struggle for some students. This application allows students to create presentations based off of information being taught by the instructor. Students can follow along with a lecture or take information from a class and make it into their own; in a way that supports their learning.
 * References: **

Dustin Hunter - Summarizing and Note Taking **Resource**: [|Penultimate]
 * Identify**: This is an app designed to be used by students on a tablet.
 * Rating**: 8/10. I would rate penultimate as an 8/10 because it has a lot of advantageous and in some ways is a best of both worlds situation. Some of the major advantages to electronic note taking are that it saves paper, students can easily search through notes for key words and ideas, and many students are more engaged than with traditional note taking. All of these advantages are true of penultimate, plus students are still using the "motion" of writing which can help them learn and remember. Unfortunately anytime students are using technology to take notes the temptation exists to be doing other things on the tablet and penultimate is no exception.
 * Description**: Students use the penultimate app to take notes on their tablet. Instead of typing, students write the notes just like they would on paper and the notes are saved on the tablet. One great feature of penultimate is that students can search through their saved notes for key words, making the time they spend studying for tests much more efficient.
 * Alignment**: This resource aligns with note taking because its main feature is allowing students to take notes in a different way. Note taking can be a struggle for many students but penultimate can be helpful both as a note taking and as an organizational tool for many students.

__**Lia: Summarizing and Note Taking**__ Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). //Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works // (2nd ed.). Alexandria, Virginia: Assoc. for Supervision & Curriculum Development. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Scrumblr. (2017). Scrumblr Demo. Retrieved from: []
 * Resource: [|Scrumblr]**
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rating: **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">7/10 Very straight forward and easy to use. There is a demo right on the front page that gives you a quick sense as to how it works. I definitely think that upper elementary or older grades would appreciate having a way to take notes in an interactive way.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Description: **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">This online tool is great to have students organize their thoughts on index cards. Students can type notes or ideas on different colored index cards and organize them into different categories. This is a great a resource for students who might get easily distracted or overwhelmed by collaborative work pages with a lot of different features on the page. Scrumblr is very straight forward.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Alignment with Strategy: **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">One of the ways that you could use Scrumblr in your classroom is with a summary frame. For example, if you were doing a particular novel study, teachers could create the topic headings with different characters or themes. Students can be divided into groups to work together to take notes and present on their particular topic. “A summary frame is really an advance organizer or set of teacher-prepared notes intended to help students focus on what is important as they are reading or watching a video” (Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn, 2012, pg 153). Students can take notes independently and then share with the class or group with guidance from the teacher as to what should be remembered.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.5;">References: **


 * __ Michele Schafer: OneNote - [] __**
 * Type: ** Microsoft Office Software Program
 * Rating: ** 9/10. I have used EverNote in the past and find this much easier to use. It was easy to figure out and easy to move things from one page to another or from one place to another. Saves as you go so work is not likely to be deleted accidently.
 * Description and use in the classroom: ** Digital notebook that allows you create folders and pages. OneNote can be used on any device with a free Microsoft account. You can create different notebooks or tabs on the top of the page and add pages down the side of the page. These tabs can be color coded and sorted and named as you would like. Your notebook can also be shared with others if you would like too.
 * How it aligns to summarizing and note taking: ** OneNote allows you to collect notes, images, notes, and pictures all in one location. Note only can you type notes, you can paste links, videos, pictures, snips or screenshots, drawings, type on the page and all of your information is saved. Students can easily collect in one place notes, assignments and project drafts to help them as they work through assignments.

[|https://www.onenote.com/#]
 * Resources: **

**Resource**: Notability is note taking application for iOS devices. **Rating**: I would give this a 9 out of 10. The app is very easy to use and manage. It has so many features to use other than just taking plain notes. The best part is it is only $0.99 on the app store and $5.99 if you get it on the Mac store. **Description**: "Notability lets you stay organized and up to date wherever you are" (Notability, 2017). The app allows you to combine handwriting, photos, and typing in a single note to bring your work to life. (Notability, 2017). It is the perfect place to organize work, school, and just about any information. The app will also let you record snippets of information as well instead of writing something down. You can also edit your words with the same settings you would have on Word on the computer. you can also import images and PDFs to edit them (Deaton, 2015). **Alignment**:This aligns with summarizing and note taking because that is truly what the application is. You take notes or summarize whatever you would like. You can also use recording snippets or import images, draw diagrams, whatever works for you. We all learn differently and take notes differently, so this app aligns because it really could benefit all types of learners with note taking. **Reference**: Deaton, M. (2015. December 25). //Notability: A Powerful, Yet Simple Note-Taking App.// Retrieved from []. Notability. (2017). Notability. Retrieved from [].
 * Hillary Bailey: [|Notability] **

**Kathy Thompson: [|Pages]** **Resources and Rating:** Pages is an apple software/app. I would rate it 9 out of 10. I like it because its easy to use and free on an apple device. **Description:** "Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create documents that look beautiful and read beautifully." Pages is easy to use is free on any apple device. Teachers and students can take notes and share notes using pages. **Alignment**: Pages aligns with summarizing and note taking because that is what it was made for. It is very similar to microsoft word. It allows you to type notes up and organize it in way that you can easily find the main idea and details of a lesson. **Reference:** Pages by apple retrieved from: http://www.apple.com/pages/

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 * __Maria Jandernoa - [|Google Docs] for Summarizing & Note-Taking__**
 * ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Docs
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Educational website/app
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Rating: I would give Google Docs a rating of 9.5/10. Google Docs is a great resource for note taking, because it has all of the capabilities of a word processor, but it includes the ability to easily share and work with others. The reason I would not give it a 10/10 is only because it is lacking on certain formatting functions that Microsoft Office has.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Description: Google Docs is a resource within Google Drive that allows working drafts to stay current without a “saving” function. All changes are automatically saved and are constantly reflected in the document. Google Docs allow for sharing of information without having to worry about version control.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Alignment: Google Docs would be a great resource that aligns with the summarizing and note-taking objective. This resource can be used to keep notes in like any word processor. This resource would allow for students to easily edit/revise notes as well.

__**Tonilynn Aguon**__
 * Summarizing & Note Taking**
 * Resource:** [|Cornell Notes] is an educational website.
 * Rating:** 9/10. The website is free and easy to use. It offers different features depending on if you are a student, parent, or teacher, so there is a well-rounded, support system and educational environment for the student.
 * Description:** Cornell Notes is geared toward helping students with special needs. It offers tools that help students develop skills such as with organization, test taking, and note taking as well as content help with math and writing skills. The website has each skill builder broken into even more specific categories that is designed to slowly develop the students' skills in each category.
 * Alignment:** This helpful website aligns with summarizing and note taking in that it helps students to develop those particular skills. Additionally, the website helps with advanced thinking which helps students to differentiate what information is important when the time comes that they have to take notes on their own.
 * References:** Cornell Notes. Retrieved from http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html.

Dayna Winczner - Summarizing and Note Taking
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Name of the Resource - [|Video Notes]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Google extension ( application)
 * 10/10 It is completely free and teaches students to listen and comprehend information at the same time.
 * This resource is used for students when they are watching a video and need to take notes on it. Everything is time stamped when you type. If you need to look back fro information, you can rewind the video to the exact minute and second to review content. The best part is that everything is stored in your Google drive.
 * It is aligned with this chapter because it provides immediate feedback for the students. They can take notes and look back at what they wrote. It is a great resource of technology that also reduces the pencil paper aspect of teaching. It also is engaging for students because they are typing out their own work and can have something to look back at and be proud of. It also allow students a chance to revise notes later if they choose to watch the video again and add on more notes.

Asma Alshammari Summarizing and Note Taking ~

Resource: [|Google Keep]

Rating: 10/10

Description:

Google Keep is a note-taking service that considered as one of the vast services that Google offers for the customers. It is a free tool and has mobile apps for the IOS and Android. Google Keep is the best tool for students that allows them to take notes, images, lists, audio, and text. Also, it links to students Google accounts that make it easy for them to not make a new account for it. Students can take interesting notes, and save it on their devices.

Alignment with strategy:

Google Keep is one of the easiest tools for students to take notes in a pretty way. Also, it is not limit to just take notes; but students also can summarize the most important information by organizing them into a category or colorful notes. Google Keep offers a sharing bottom to share the notes and summaries with the others. So students can help each other to organize their notes. Reference:

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 * TaShara Eiland** - Summarizing & Note Taking
 * Resource**: [|Simplenote]
 * Rating**: 8/10
 * Identity**: App available for iPhones, Androids (through a 3rd party), Mac, Windows and internet
 * Description**: With Simplenote you can take your notes, to do list, grocery list, class notes etc. in text form and you can have it synced with all your devices (iPhone, computer, iPad). You can also export your information to a CSV or XML file (Lifehack, n.d.). This app is totally free and easy to use.
 * Alignment with Strategy**: As a student my way of taking notes was to literally write down word for word what the teacher was saying. To me, the best way to be prepared for any question on a test was to know everything that was discussed in class. This may not work for everyone, but what this app does is it allows you to turn your class lecture (writing everything down) into a mobile text that you can access anywhere. Because you can organize it how you see fit, this aligns with using technology on the classroom for note taking.

Monique Sims – Summarizing and Note Taking Pitler, H., Hubbell, E. R., & Kuhn, M. (2012). Using technology with classroom instruction that works. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. [|Thinkfree. (2017.). Retrieved March 31, 2017, from http://www.thinkfree.com/]
 * Resource: ** [|ThinkFree] is a collaborative and educational website
 * Rate: ** 9/10
 * Description: ** ThinkFree is an office like website that provides users the opportunity to prepare spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. It’s a platform for users to communicate through sharing and critiquing. It’s a site that is well organize and easy to explore. The site allows real time interaction between students, while working on projects.
 * Alignment: ** This site incorporates summarizing and communicating documents and presentations in the online office-like setting. This site provides students organizational and data processing skills to develop. ThinkFree provides strategies to enhance users note taking abilities.
 * Reference: **

=Lyla Alhomedi=

Rating: 9/10
====**Description:** it is an application that makes students combine documents, PPT, and image files as well as the handwritten note into their notes. It also allows students to record page by page audio. It considers such a powerful tool keep students organized with their materials. It allows students to electronically share documents easily with anyone. Moreover, it is available in English and Japanese languages.====
 * Alignment with Strategy:** Paperport Note application helps students summarize their materials in a flexible way that makes them integrate visual and audio into their taking notes and even makes it accessible to other people. Overall, it is a good tool for students to help them study in an organized way.


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Kelly-Taking Notes: __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> [|AudioNote]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**Resource:**AudioNote allows students to record lectures and saves the material to be listened to later.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rating: ****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">4/10. **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I like the idea of the app because there are times in class where the teacher moves too fast to copy everything that was said or there are distractions, which makes it difficult for a student to take notes. Thus, AudioNote is handy to capture everything. However, I personally like to write my notes because it enhances my learning, which is the point of taking notes. More so, I do not like apps that I must pay for and AudioNote is $5.99. Also, I wonder how much background noise is picked up and how long the notes are good for or how much space is taken from audio recordings. I looked through the reviews and most of them were low and some of the complaints were “This is my go-to app for recording grad school lectures and adding my own notes for studying. Unfortunately, it failed to open one day noting an "internal error". Weeks of notes lost right before my finals...... :/ Reinstalled it but am now nervous about trusting the app with irreplaceable info” (Jones, Melinda).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">AudioNote is “an app that allows students to draw or type notes while recording a voiceover. Upon playback, the app will highlight specific sections that are being drawn during a particular point in the audio recording” (Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn, 2012). AudioNote allows people to “synchronize notes and audio by automatically indexing meetings, lectures, interviews, or study sessions” ([]). AudioNote
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Description: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Summarizing and note taking is an important skill that students should try to master because it reiterates the subject material that they are learning and allows students to put the teacher’s or text book’s ideas in their own words so they understand. More so, summarizing tries to pull the main ideas from the subject matter. As Pitler, Hubbell, & Kuhn point out, “summarizing and note taking focuses on enhancing student’s ability to synthesize information and distill it into a concise new form...note taking is similar to summarizing in that it enhances students’ ability to organize information in a way that captures the main ideas and support details, helping students to process information” (2012). With AudioNote, students can save time and headache from writing notes and remembering where in their notes an answer to a question is because each note acts as a link directly to the point in the recording, taking a person instantly to what they want to hear.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Alignment: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">References: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., & Kuhn, M. (2012). Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works. //ASCD: Alexandria, VA.//

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