{"id":823,"date":"2020-01-02T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanepittard.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T06:16:14","slug":"curating-research-using-apple-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanepittard.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"Curating research using Apple Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple Notes for collection and curation of resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the challenges for ourselves and our students is the collecting and curation of resources. \u00a0There is now a vast ocean of resources and ideas that can be accessed online or created by ourselves. \u00a0Some old figures is shown in the image,<\/p>\n

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Access to lots of information is detrimental to student development, more is not better. \u00a0Students need to be taught how to curate and focus on the valuable information to make informed decisions.<\/p>\n

A tool I like to use myself and encourage my students to use Apple Notes. True, there are lots of tools that serve this purpose such as Evernote which has been around for awhile. \u00a0However, I will talk about Note simply because it comes standard on all Apple devices. \u00a0It also easily synchs across all of a users devices, meaning the notes\/resources follow them around.<\/p>\n

Using Apple Notes you can teach your students to create a system of collections of information by subject. \u00a0You can have them create their notes without any content and the guide them how to link information within those categories. \u00a0Intrinsically they will start to develop skills in thinking and sorting information to be quickly accessed later, whether for a project, research in depth or revision. \u00a0An example of some groupings are below:<\/p>\n

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Within each of those groupings are the links, notes and other digital information they have collected or entered manually. \u00a0A list of my sample Latin links are shown here.<\/p>\n

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Where the notes become enhanced is by the annotation of the links to provide depth to students. \u00a0It can also form part of the development process for students when creating an annotated bibliography. \u00a0Importantly it will provide context for why the students linked the information initially when they return to it at a later stage. \u00a0Have you ever booked marked a site and then when you returned later you could not remember why, requiring you to reread the site to trigger your memory. \u00a0Annotation reduces this time, triggers memory on the purpose of the link and provides greater depth of information that can be easily updated. \u00a0It creates the foundation of a student system to manage their learning resources which become invaluable in the later school and professional years.<\/p>\n

So how do you link resources to online resources<\/span>.<\/p>\n

In this example I will use Safari as the web browser.<\/p>\n

So I was looking for some books for my daughter to read in Latin. \u00a0A good approach to develop new language skills is have students read a text naturally in the new language they wish to learn. \u00a0Of interest to my daughter was a Latin language version of Harry Potter \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So locate \u00a0a website with some good options.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t have time to read about each of these books know and I wish to return to them later. \u00a0Traditionally you may bookmark it, but that leads to lots of bookmarks that often you never look at again. \u00a0 So I decide to add it to my Latin teaching note.<\/p>\n

On Apple products there is a \u201cshare\u201d icon of the scare with the arrow.\u00a0\u00a0When you click on that you will see a menu appear and we are interested din the \u201cNotes\u201d option. \u00a0Select that. When you do the following image appears.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes you need to wait a few seconds for the page data to load. \u00a0At the bottom you can choose the note group your would like to place it in, or create a brand new note. \u00a0At this you have the first opportunity for annotation of the link. \u00a0You can add this later if you wish). \u00a0And then click save. \u00a0It will then be stored on in notes and starting to be synched across the related devices including their personal iPhones, meaning they take their resources with them and can them at any stage. \u00a0Press save when you finished annotating the link.<\/p>\n

When you go to the notes you will see the different links or other information you have entered.<\/p>\n

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You can then access your Lins by clicking on the links shown above. \u00a0You can also add additional notes over time as you learn more material. \u00a0It can be used for project research, being effective helping students organising their initial notes before they start the refining process. \u00a0They can delete an add resources as the projects evolve and they narrow their focus to their question.<\/p>\n

Over time it builds a well organised collection of resources. \u00a0I use notes to collect information from a range of sources, not just webpages, resources from twitter, instagram and other online resources.<\/p>\n

Hopefully this is useful for you and your students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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