next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
From: Ivan Sinclair [ivan.sinclair@gmail.com]
Date: Fri 3/21/2008 9:21 AM
Re: Invitation to Evernote
Hi Jimmy – I’ve been using Evernote and I think you’d like it. It lets me capture all things I want to save and I can easily find them anytime. Great for research. Check this…you can take a digital picture of something like a wine label and email your Evernote site where it will be indexed. There’s even OCR whereby it will index the text within a photo. Give it a try.
Reply: Mahalo, Ivan, for this invitation. When you mentioned it earlier, I didn’t have the time to try it out. This morning, I installed it and am amazed at what it does. It takes a while to wrap your head around it, and I’m gradually beginning to understand why it’s such a big deal! Before I go any further, I should say that this video provides a useful overview.
From what I’ve seen so far, the essence of Evernote is its ability to integrate text and images in a way that’s radically different. Up until now, we had either text or images, one or the other. But with Evernote, the two are one — or pretty close to it. Thus far, I’ve tested it on the web, searching for items that could be posted to Windblown Bytes. When I hit a likely article, I can capture the entire webpage or select a portion, click on “Clip to Evernote,” which I’ve installed in my browser’s tool bar, and the item is automatically saved on my personal Evernotes page. If there are images (photos, etc.), they’re saved, too.
From my Evernotes page, I can email items to colleagues or copy and paste into applications, blogs, etc. But the really cool feature is the ability to search text embedded in images, e.g., if the word “elephant” appears on a T-shirt in a photo, Evernote’s search engine will find and highlight it. The beauty of this feature is that any text can be captured in, say, a jpg image, and that text is searchable. Potential uses for this feature are covered in the video, including capturing shots of boarding passes.
Another cool feature that I’d like to use is the handwriter. Writing with a mouse is difficult so I’d have to get a “pen” that behaves like a mouse. Amazingly, despite my awkward scribble, Evernote’s search engine recognized the word I’d written. This means that handwritten notes don’t have to be translated into traditional computer fonts to allow for searches.
When you have the time, how about sharing tips on how you use Evernote in your work?
Thanks again. -js
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