The Use of Evernote in the EFL Classroom

Activity

Class: 7° Grade

Age group: 12-13
Level: Upper intermediate

Name: Everyone knows something

Warm Up: As part of a project, students have been collecting important details and making notes of different subjects, such as Chemistry, Biology or History, for English Language. One day in class, students finally share their notes orally with their classmates and the teacher. The teacher also shares some piece of information that he learnt when he was a student.

Web: With the help of Evernote, students will prepare those notes and pieces of information in a more interactive and appealing way. For this, the teacher shows his students a tutorial of how to use Evernote and then he helps the students use Evernote and create their notes:

1.  First of all, go to Evernote and create your account (use the Gmail account you have created for this project).
2. Once you are in, choose the notes you like best about a topic and type it exactly the way you want. Remember you can add pictures to make it more appealing. If you feel you do not like your note, you can re-write it until you are happy with it.
3. When you have created your note, show it to your teacher or sent it to him by e-mail. Make sure you include: your name, your course and remember to include punctuation marks so that your sentence makes sense.
4. Once you have sent your note, I will correct it and, when everything is ok, everyone will show their notes to their classmates and share some piece of knowledge.

What Next: The students’ notes will be shown through a beamer. The owner of the note will read their note and show the pictures (is there is any). While he/she does that, the task of the rest will be not only to pay attention, but also to think about how the note could be improved. 

Evaluation Criteria

• Accurate use of structures and lexis, such as: like + V-ing/noun, connectors, punctuation
• Addition of extra information
• Correct use of the tool
• Meeting of deadline
• Collaboration with less computer-literate classmates
• Collaboration between classmates
• Students' abilities to summarize 
• Students' creativity