Paperless

I've mentioned this before, but Evernote is making my life so much easier. And way more paperless.

I'm sitting here reading a chapter in my EdPsych text, and the term "implicit memory" came up. And I knew we talked about it in class at some point this semester, but have no idea when. In the old days, that would mean pulling out a notebook and flipping through until I found where I (hopefully) highlighted the term. Now, all my note are typed into Evernote; each day, each class is it's own note. So I searched for "implicit memory" and it came up, highlighted straight to the term I was looking for.
There is no reason to NOT go paperless, people. At least in our personal lives. Yes, we still need students to fill out worksheets, tests, etc. There isn't enough money in our budgets for every student to have a laptop and do all their classwork on it (plus, I think handwriting is an important skill worth learning). But taking notes at a conference? In class? From websites that you might bookmark but never remember to go back to? And then being able to search them. Even the pictures are searchable. Why would you still carry a notebook??

Joys of Outreach

The kitchen table had become a dumping ground of pieces from the classes I've taught this month and it was time to clean it up and get stuff back to the museum so that we could potentially eat Thanksgiving dinner at the kitchen table.

This was the result:
That's my Little Red Science Wagon, with materials from 4 different classes. The little boxes shoved all around the bottom had escaped from the Magnetic Personalities class and been stranded on the kitchen table all alone for a week. Then there was the box from the class I actually taught this week, Animal Adaptations. The two file boxes, the K'Nex box, and the general mess on top were from the after school Crickets class of two weeks ago. And, nestled among it, out of sight, is the bottle of "blood" (water, small pieces of red and white sponges) from the Follow Your Heart class (4 weeks ago).

But the kitchen is finally clean. And Thanksgiving dinner can be enjoyed there (hopefully).