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Audionote - Notepad and Voice Recorder
All-in-one note-taking system may be complex for young students
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Audionote - Notepad and Voice Recorder
Pros: Options for writing, drawing, and recording provide diverse opportunities for independent skills practice.
Cons: Designed for business productivity, the interface may be advanced for some students.
Bottom Line: With some prep time, this is a solid choice for note-taking on mobile devices, but other choices, like Notability, have more intuitive design.
The uses for Audionote seem endless. Teachers can allow students to type and record notes simultaneously from a lecture. Students can also draw or use the device's camera to capture diagrams and demonstrations in real time while recording teacher prompts and directions. After students have the information, teachers might pair them together to clean up text or audio they may have missed. As students listen to each others' recordings, they can also highlight or delete content to have the most concise and important notes. Teachers might also send presentation slides (saved as PDFs) to their students so that they don't have to copy text from the board. Students can still record lectures and annotate the PDFs, but sending the slides to student devices using iCloud or Dropbox may save time and ensure that students have the most important information.
The process of teaching students to use this tool may be time-consuming, and teachers might help students practice recording and typing using smaller doses of information. For example, students may not be able to record an entire lecture on the skeletal system right away. Instead, have students practice recording smaller chunks of information and then connect them together later.
Audionote - Notepad and Voice Recorder allows users to tap a button and record audio notes while simultaneously drawing or typing notes. Students can pause and edit notes, save them to Dropbox or iCloud, and highlight important keywords. Teachers can give students presentation slides, which can then be annotated with voice or text. Backgrounds can be adjusted to include lined writing paper, graphing paper, or white canvas paper. Typed notes sync to audio recordings and will highlight in a different color when timed correctly. Using file sharing in iTunes, Dropbox, or iCloud, kids can store their notes and recordings and access them on a computer.
This tool is great for student-centered learning. Students who may benefit from learning content using different modalities should try it. The app provides rich opportunities for students to write, hear, and rehearse information they've been taught in class. Students can also snap pictures with mobile devices (of labs, lectures, or worksheets) to incorporate within their notes. Utilizing the graph paper built into the tool makes the app versatile for multiple subject areas.
Though Audionote's features are vast, they're sometimes difficult to maneuver, and they're less kid-friendly than those in apps like Notability or Evernote. It's also important to note that in order for a student to get the most out of the tool, direct instruction about how best to use the tool will be necessary and potentially time-consuming. That being said, this is a powerful tool that could be a game-changer for note-taking in your classroom.
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