Education 2.0 & 3.0

After posting about some of the best educational web tools and iPad apps teacher librarians can use in their daily work, we received a number of requests from some of our readers inquiring about app recommendations for Android devices. We went ahead and compiled the list below. This is a collection of some useful apps to help librarians make the best of their Android devices in their work.

"There are plenty of ways to take notes. You could carry a notebook and pen in your pocket, or scribble thoughts on a napkin at lunch. Or, better yet, you could use a notebook app, so you always have a way to store your thoughts—even if there's not a pen nearby.

"Notebook apps come in all shapes and sizes. From simple plain-text notebooks to apps that recognize your handwriting and record audio, you can find a notebook app for anything you want to remember.

"We took dozens of note-taking apps for a test drive in order to separate the must-try options from the weak ones. First, you’ll find full-featured note-taking apps, including Evernote, OneNote, and Simplenote—the popular notebook apps that can save everything. Then, we'll look at handwriting apps, designed for scribbling your thoughts on tablets.

"And if that's not enough, there's a bonus section at the end with “one-trick ponies”—note-taking apps that do a single job very well, and might be a great companion app for your preferred notebook app."

An Evernote introduction and overview tutorial for 2013 and 2014 on how to use Evernote to create richly formatted notes and organize your notes into noteboo...

If you follow my blog, you know I curate a lot of resources for teachers. This post brings together a suggested list, a curated list if you will, of 16 curation tools for teachers and students from the Shake Up Learning community. Choosing how to curate and what tools to use can be a very personal decision depending on your own needs and preferences. That’s what’s so great about the world wide web of tools! There is no shortage of tools.


Curation is absolutely necessary in the information age! As Gayle Allen says in her book, The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, “We’re assembling resources in a way that represents the ongoing story of our learning. We are the curators.”

Búsquedas personalizadas, traducción automática, sincronización entre equipos o redes sociales… Exprimir al máximo estos servicios en la nube es muy sencillo.