Notetaking with IPod Touch

I'm leading an IPod touch initiative at 3 middle schools in my district. Was wondering if anyone else has had experience with using the Touch for Notetaking...

I want to find a way that kids can take notes and bring them up the next day to review and add to. We have class sets of IPods, so the IPod will be used by other students throughout the day. How can the work of each individual student be saved and retrieved at a later time just for that student.

Also, any good apps? Our program is just for 6th grade Science and Social Studies...

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Permalink Reply by Mike Ladao on January 27, 2010 at 6:52pm

Would you be considering using the new iPad now that is out. I would consider setting up ning or another course management system, simple to use that allows for notetaking / blogging plus photos, video, etc and since they login to a system, the content will be accessible from anywhere after they finish. (of course the need to save it) Google docs would be a possible alternative.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on January 27, 2010 at 7:56pm

Have the students already mastered the SKILL of taking notes with pencil and paper? You can't move to step 3 until you've reached step 2.

Also, the keyboard on an iPod Touch is fairly hard to get used to. Not all your students are going to be techy-geeks like me! Students need to learn how to ORGANIZE their notes on paper... which is very hard to do on any iPod Touch application I can think of.

It's cool to have a bunch of iPods. But the goal (in this case) is to get students to learn the skill of notetaking... not just to whip out the flashy technology because it's there. Sometimes technology can take you BACK a step, when our goals is to step forward.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on January 27, 2010 at 9:33pm

How about http://www.evernote.com/about/download/iphone/

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Permalink Reply by Matias Singers on January 30, 2010 at 4:49am

I wrote a little article about a would-be great application for the iPad. I wish as many developers as possible see the post and think about developing such an app. I personally would buy an iPad as soon as possible if such an application actually existed.
http://isingers.info/ipad-note-taking-application-concept/