Brain Rules #6 Long Term Memory Stixy

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Stixy was a pleasurable tool to use. It enabled me to take notes using colorized post it notes. These post it notes make it easy to categorize information, and it was the electronic version of taking sticky notes and sticking them on different pages in a book. I begin to colorize information. Everything written on a pink sticky note was information about long term memory that would be useful to a teacher. 


It precluded me from seeing all my notes in one view. I did not like how the sticky notes and images seemed to be on a story board. I like structure and limitations with my notes. I prefer for all my information to be on one screen in one frame. However, with this tool it seemed the scroll function continued until "forever". I also did not like I could not write a caption for image. It would be nice to have the option to type on or around a downloaded image. 


I would introduce my students to this technology by having them take notes and use the different color sticky notes as a organization system. My favorite way to engage students with text is to give them a key. Students use highlighters and highlight new information, new vocabulary, fact, opinion, prior knowledge, or whatever our goal is which different colored highlighters. Instead students could identify this information and paraphrase on the appropriate notepad. Students could also upload images to the adjoining notepad to make connections. 


This is a tool that I would use in the future for organizational purposes.