Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Thing 10: Productivity Tools

Whew - I'm on the last thing - yeah!  I have enjoyed this PD and have learned many things.  Now I have to find some time to take full advantage of them :-)
For productivity tools I looked into many of them.  Evernote I can envision using to store my lesson plans - scan worksheets and store web links.  I'm dreaming of not having piles of paper and folders everywhere - my husband would think it was a dream come true also!  I wanted to create one using one of my existing lessons, but I can't download to my district equipment.  Dropbox looked great.  I use flash drives and email my files now and have different versions in different places - not productive at all.  I wanted to download the software on my district laptop but as with Evernote I  was blocked without admin permission.  Does anyone know if RCSD Helpdesk will push it out to our laptops?  I'm going to download it on my personal computer and setup an account.  My  son just got an Android smartphone and I'm going to suggest he use the Lookout product - it looked great.  I have an iPhone and have not setup my "Find My iPhone" yet, so I will do that now and compare the features of the Apple product with Lookout and make sure I use one of them.