There were so many great tools to explore in this first thing that I have spent way more time on it than I expected. There have been both personal tools discovered, and tools that I can see using with my students.
The tool which I am most excited about using personally is Workflowy. I am a big fan of list making, but now that I live mostly in a digital world I struggle between where my lists are and where I am working. Although I wish they had a mobile app to make it totally available I can see myself using this consistently to stay organized. I have created three list categories to start with (Work, Personal, and Church). I have already been using and loving the work category. Personal would be more accessible if there was a mobile app, because I would use it "on the go", but I can still use it for project management in my life. I am excited to start using the collaboration aspect with our Curriculum Team as we plan professional development.
I also explored the Buffer App and One Tab for my own organization, but they did not seem as appropriate for my needs. With One Tab I didn't like the way the tabs collapsed into a list- what I would have loved would be to collapse them into "Sub-Tabs), although I understand that probably wouldn't have the same impact on computer space saving. The Buffer App made me feel guilty that I don't have more social media posts lined up to share!
The tools which I am planning to implement with classes are Scrible and EverNote. I have explored EverNote several times in the past for my own organizational needs, and it just has never clicked and felt natural, but I see real potential for it in two places within curriculum. The first is as a portfolio for seniors, which is a concept that I have been discussing with our Advanced Government teacher, and which I would love to see used across curriculum areas. The other teacher I would like to use this with is our 7th grade math teacher, who would like to create an interactive math lab notebook. I think a lot of the functionality, and flexibility of what you can gather within EverNote will be useful for each of these purposes.
I am really excited about using Scrible with our 10th grade English teacher, who does a lot of close reading and annotating activities with students and has been looking for a versatile and flexible tool to use for these activities. Scrible could ultimately be useful for any students doing extended research. The functionality of these tools are so practical that I can really anticipate sharing them with many teachers, and will most likely share them at our next professional development.
