Evernote

Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.The app allows users to create a "note" which can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note.

Notes can also have file attachments. Evernote is available in a paid version or a more restricted free version. Use of the online service is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for Plus subscribers, and unlimited monthly use for Premium customers.

Taking this explanation into account, it is possible to observe that this platform may increase the meaning of literacies. According to Sullivan (2010), technology has enlarged the meaning of literacies. He insists that a person can be considered literate in the twenty - first century only if he possesses a variety of skills and competencies. To reach this goal, readers and writers need to develop proficiency with the tools of technology and exposing students to Evernote may be a way of developing the new literacies.

Here goes a tutorial on how to use Evernote:

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Bibliography

• Sullivan, S. (2010). Introduction: What's on the Other Side When You Finally Cross the Digital Divide. Lessons Plans for Developing Digital Literacies. Retrieved in December 2016 from: http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/speak-teaching-with-voki-30884.html