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So I broke down some real reluctance barriers, and decided to try some new ways of using tools that I had tasted before, and, like Brussels sprouts, had decided that I really didn't like or need!  Although I have Evernote on my iPad - (hey - it was free!) - and love tools that I can access on all devices, I hadn't really seen a need or want for it.  I am a Devoted Delicious user, and can pop a bookmark into Delicious with the touch of a button.  But I tried Penultimate, and it allowed me to store and index handwritten notes, and add pictures, and have them at my fingertips in Evernote, so I explored some more... By linking Delicious and Evernote through ifttt (If This Then That) - I sent my current Delicious bookmarks to Evernote.  Where my notes are.  Writing a review with the links handy and in the same place was a little easier, I will admit.   And I can see how, if I were a student just starting out, I would want to use Evernote to collect, ind...

Today my brilliant son introduced me to Penultimate -- an app that reads handwriting, and syncs with Evernote.  You can write, draw, erase, move things around the page, search handwritten notes...and all will appear in Evernote on any device you choose.  Really cool -- and I thought this was perfectly timed.  I am off to use Evernote, which I have been ignoring for a while.   Now it looks SO much more fun!

I have yet to explore the Search Tools portion of this assignment, but I had to stop and post this comment. After exploring NovelNY and the Gale and Ebsco Databases, I decided to add a few more search tools -- and maybe a cool widget -- to our Library Databases page. LIttle did I know that this would turn out to be an all-day activity!! First I had to make room in the grid of databases.  Our web page tool (SchoolCenter) apparently did not like me messing with the pretty layout, as it added more cells than I did, rearranged them, and resized them.   When adding a widget, once must edit in html.  This then changes a SchoolCenter page to always being edited in html. When attempting to add some text to the page in Advanced Editor (non-html), the new widgets decided that this was apparently an affront to their code, and reformatted to elimate the search boxes. I tried to add a Gale widget, but this really threw everything out of kilter. Back to step one. I now h...