Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Tools for Schools Research Task


Evernote: Evernote is a type of software designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of text, a webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. These notes can be sorted into folders, then tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched and exported as part of a notebook.
Screenshots:
Evernote Logo

Evernote Page



Evernote clients are available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Google Wave platforms. There are portable versions of Evernote available for flash drives and U3 drives.

A viable competitor for Evernote is Microsoft OneNote.

 

Microsoft OneNote: Microsoft OneNote is a computer program for information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It can gather users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings, and audio commentaries and share them with other users of Microsoft OneNote over the Internet. Notes can also be edited from a web browser.

 OneNote is available as an application for Windows, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Symbian.

OneNote has multiple (But less regarded) competitors. These include Evernote, Yojimbo, Springpad, Simplenote Circus Ponies NoteBook and Zotero.

Google+: Google+ is a multilingual social networking and identity service. Google+ includes social services such as Google Profiles, and introduces new services such as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks.

Screenshots:


Gooogle+ Logo

Google+ is an internet site allowing it to be available on any platform with internet access.

The major competitor for Google+ is Facebook.