http://stashuk.ca/2008/08/20/staying-organized-in-the-face-of-technology/ Technology in Education Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:09:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://stashuk.ca/2008/08/20/staying-organized-in-the-face-of-technology/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Using free web applications to manage research and lesson planning | The Science Bench Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:09:31 +0000 http://stashuk.ca/?p=94#comment-235 [...] Over the last few weeks I have been evaluating how I manage my information, as I currently have stuff spread across a number of different services — which isn’t necessarily bad. I use Delicious to capture interesting and useful links to school related resources, and I’ve started using Remember the Milk to keep track of simple tasks, while my Google Calendar is still used for larger tasks that are date specific. I’m trying to figure out what my best solution is for tracking interesting news articles and the like that I might be able to use in a lesson one-day. I don’t necessarily want these in Delicious because they are fairly date sensitive. I’ve thought about using Google Notebook for this task, but wonder if staring and/or sharing and/or tagging them through my Google Reader is the better option? To add more selection to this current pile there is also the previously mentioned Evernote which has a phenomenal search engine (it can search text in images) and the ability to tag and create folders. [...] [...] Over the last few weeks I have been evaluating how I manage my information, as I currently have stuff spread across a number of different services — which isn’t necessarily bad. I use Delicious to capture interesting and useful links to school related resources, and I’ve started using Remember the Milk to keep track of simple tasks, while my Google Calendar is still used for larger tasks that are date specific. I’m trying to figure out what my best solution is for tracking interesting news articles and the like that I might be able to use in a lesson one-day. I don’t necessarily want these in Delicious because they are fairly date sensitive. I’ve thought about using Google Notebook for this task, but wonder if staring and/or sharing and/or tagging them through my Google Reader is the better option? To add more selection to this current pile there is also the previously mentioned Evernote which has a phenomenal search engine (it can search text in images) and the ability to tag and create folders. [...]

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