In today's fast paced technologically advanced society, we have to understand and embrace the tools available for us and how they will make our lives easier, hence, the organizational tools. With a vast amount of apps, downloads, ect, available, it's great to narrow down the choices and concentrate on what will work best for us, our students and parents. The following list describes six organizational tools I have signed up for and tried out.
https://www.wunderlist.com/en/. Wunderlist is a free online organizational tool available with apps for both the iTunes and android market. Wunderlist is very visually appealing and provides a fun and user friendly way to organize your to-do lists for both personal and professional settings. This organizational tool is great to use with students because you can access it from anywhere (school, home) and make collaboration teams required for projects, homework and activities. The students can use this tool to organize homework assignments, due dates and plan extracurricular schedules.
Workflowy is a simpler free organizational tool that can be used to organize your to-do list. It's interface is very simple. It works on a system of tree-branching. You create a list and then continue to add sub tabs until you have created all your list and organized them to your preference. This is a good tool to use by people who don't like the extra gimmicks. It's a very simply application and it can be used by students who want to keep everything simple and ready.
Scribbless is free online organizations tool that helps users create lists. The lists can be public or private. You have an option of printing your lists, sharing or just keeping it for your organizational purposes. It's an eye catching tool that is user friendly and helps people who need to collaborate. Students can use this tool to make lists of books, projects, homework, supplies and anything they need to prepare for school. The lists can be shared by group members who are working on a project.
https://evernote.com Evernote is a popular organizational tools used by many people to share documents in the workforce. Students can use Evernote to help with note taking, projects, homework and to-do lists. As a teacher, I would recommend to my students to download the Evernote app to their device. We can create an account so we can share documents, pictures, assignments. It's a great way to keep everything together. Students can also take audio notes on Evernote and it will help them with additional support. My students can take snapshots of my notes and file them for use later. If a student is absent, they can check their Evernote account from home and keep up to date with lessons.
http://www.pinterest.com Pinterest is a popular online pinning site. Users create an account and begin to create "boards". The boards can be anything the user wants to organize and categorize. It is a community of people who "pin" ideas, pictures, tips, jokes, quotes, recipes, educational ideas, etc. By following people, the user can follow their boards and keep up with new and trending pins. Pinterest is a great source for students to gather ideas on projects, homework, book suggestions. The students can create their own free accounts and create education boards. They can pin their favorite books, pictures of projects, and links to interesting reads online.
Follow Zulema Garza's board Education on Pinterest.
