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App Smackdown

In class last week, we all did an app smackdown. An app smackdown is when you give a brief overview of an app that you found and discuss it in a certain amount of time. Considering the vast capabilities of apps, 2 minutes is definitely not enough time. The app I talked about was Adobe Capture. Adobe Capture is an app that lets you take pictures of different things in the world and vectorize them or save their color scheme for later. The app also backs up everything you do to your Adobe Creative Cloud. After that, we played a game called Kahoot and talked about note taking apps such as EverNote and OneNote.

The Ultimate Simplified Guide 

To The Use Of Evernote In Education

Evernote is a note-taking app that lets you open any note that you have taken on any device by logging into Evernote. This app helps you stay organized so you can take notes efficiently. It also makes note taking easy, if you’re taking notes from the internet you can highlight words and send it to your Evernote. Evernote’s app for mobile devices is very useful, its easier to organize notes and go through them. You can search key words in all of your notes and you can also see where you wrote your notes. Evernote is an awesome app for students to use and is much better compared to an old fashion notebook. Here is a helpful guide to get you started.

Save Emails to OneNote

OneNote is almost the same as Evernote, they are both digital notebooks. The app lets you open notes wherever you are, as long as you are logged in to your Microsoft account. OneNote also saves and synchronizes your notes automatically so you never have to worry about losing your notes. OneNote also lets you save emails in your notes. First you have to sign up for OneNote or if you have an Outlook account you can sign up that way. You are going to want to choose your email address that you want to use for saving emails. Then you’re going to want to choose your location on where you want the emails saved. Last step is to email it to your OneNote so you can open it up anytime you want. To help you get started read this.

Pocket Now Works With A 

Font To Aid Those With Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a disorder that involves difficulty in learning to read, interpret words, or even understanding numbers. Dyslexia is a decoding disorder where you can’t connect sounds with letters. For example, the word cat is spelled “C-A-T” but somebody with Dyslexia would probably spell it as “K-A-A-A-A-T” because that’s the way they hear it. Pocket, previously named "Read It Later," is an application and service for managing a reading list of articles from the Internet. The Pocket app just came out with a font that is easier for people with Dyslexia to read. The font has subtle changes in them to help prevent confusion with characters that look the same. When you set the new font, the Pocket app will convert all pages to that font. I think it's very cool that an app created its own font. Being a person that has Dyslexia and a Graphic Designer who spends hours looking at fonts, I think this is amazing. I want to know what the font is called so I can use it on all of my designs. This article was awesome and everybody should know about it.

Chapter 2- The Connected Educator

Chapter 2, in the book “The Connected Educator”, talks about connected learning communities. The chapter talked about the professional learning community, personal learning network, and a community of practice or inquiry. Professional learning community or PLC, is when a group of teachers meet face-to-face and share ideas to improve teaching skills. Professional learning networks or PLN, is when individuals develop their own network online that help them become better teachers. Lastly, the community of practice or inquiry or CoP, is when people meet or talk online about something that is bothering them or something they really like, so they can help each other fix it or become better at that task.

Patterns on Twitter

This week on Twitter, I posted a bunch of things about class such as my app smackdown, how I got 2nd in Kahoot, my first EverNote experience, an article about Pocket’s new font, and Adobe patterns. The link I posted is some cool designs about eyes and how they are used in patterns. The images are really cool and they aren’t distracting, unlike most patterns. I think the eyes have a cool pop art look to them and a cool color scheme. It also shows some of the patterns on objects like a book and shoes. After seeing these patterns, I would definitely start to develop a pattern of my own.