I have had the opportunity to share my work using Evernote in many educational settings, including supporting three different schools in their use of it for digital portfolios. However, as Evernote has grown as a company its ability to focus on the educational users has dramatically declined while its focus on Evernote Business seems to be its driving force. As a documenting tool it is a shear joy to use.
In May of 2014 Evernote had over 100 million users and the application was being used by people in all categories of work and play and across the globe.
Over the past 5 years Evernote has expanded significantly. In 2012 they invited me to come to the Evernote Developer conference and do a day-long workshop with educators as well as present a keynote during the conference itself. Their team was even asking for suggestions about how they could be better integrated with software and hardware partnerships. In those early days I was just an email or a phone call away from talking to someone that could impact my work. They had a market of integrated apps as well as an education component on their website. They were a new company (it had been less then 3 years since they had launched an open beta) and they were still figuring out their direction and market. I had reached out to Evernote to share what I was doing and they responded with enthusiasm and interest. Previous to that I had been experimenting with a server based application called E-Pearl but the move toward mobile technology made that obsolete pretty quickly.ĭuring the 2010-2011 school I had experimented with Evernote for several months on my own before bringing it to my students in early January 2011. I was excited by the possibilities of the software coupled with the new camera ready Apple iPhone. (I have since begun to refer to them as digital portfolios). I had been experimenting with Evernote as a tool for the creation of Student E-Portfolios for almost a full year and wanted to start sharing out the work that I had done.
On OctoI wrote my first blog post here on WordPress.
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