Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award Honorable Mention, 2010

I have received an Honorable Mention award as part of the international Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA) for my work using Sakai and other online tools to extend classroom conversations between class sessions and to leverage these tools to help students think critically, reflectively, and in personally meaningful ways about course content (see the course description here).

Extending the Conversation

As part of this honor, I was asked to present my course design and motivations at the Annual Sakai Conference on June 16, 2010, in Denver Colorado. You can see the actual presentation on ustream or the slides from this talk on slideshare.
You can also see an extended version of this talk that was presented at Indiana University on 5/27/2010 on the CITL website.

• Slide presentation with voice-over
• Talk as a pdf

Finally, here is a short interview of me discussing my design decisions at Sakai 2010.

Evernote

The Evernote tagline is "Remember Everything" and it really does help to deliver on that promise.  Evernote is a combination note-taking and storing application with some great features to help categorize your notes using either notebooks and / or tags that are then easily searched.  You can quickly and easily add images, web pages, emails, and whatever you can think of in addition to basic text editing functionality.  Evernote will even scan through the images and other documents (if you want) so that everything is searchable.  As a bonus, Evernote is available on most platforms (including the Mac, web, and iPhone which are the ones that I use) and synchronizes between them all.  You can also share your Evernote libraries selectively with other folks who need to see or edit them.

I use Evernote for almost everything at this point.  On the work front, I'm using it to keep track of design decisions and brainstorming (including images of the whiteboards), take notes in meetings, track my to-do lists for everything, and keep a list of readings and technologies to follow up with (to name a few).  On the personal side of things, I keep track of other to-do lists, travel information, recipes, and my grocery list.

Evernote is also Free, though there are some bonuses for those willing to get the premium account, and I find it is well worth it.

Evernote is also extensible, and a number of 3rd party developers have put together some pretty neat solutions.  My favorite at the moment is EgretList for the iPhone.  EgretList is a to-do list manager that pulls in anything that has a checkbox from your Evernote library into a set of easily organized to-do lists that can be grouped by urgency, location, project, or whatever you can think of. 

Using BeeSign 1.3

This page is intended to provide some of the basic information that you will need to use BeeSign. Most of the feaures are then relatively easy to discover by exploring the interface. However, if you would like additional instructions about the more advanced features, or information regarding how I implemented BeeSign please contact me directly.

You may also want to try BeeSign 1.3 or read more about the BeeSign Project.
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