Are your stacks of Professional Development notes, research articles, and flyers stacking up on your desk? Today I’m sharing an awesome app to keep all those ‘random’ papers teachers collect from hitting the trash can and never being seen again.
You know what I am talking about – the pile of paper you’re handed at the staff meeting, the chart with
Lexile/DRA/Scholastic Counts conversions, the sweet parent note you found inmyour mailbox. In my first-year teacher, I found that I was handed so many great resources, but two months later I have no idea where they are. Yes, I have a folder, but *sometimes* I am an overly aggressive purger. Hand a document to me; I’ll have it for the week. Send me the document in an email or PDF; and I’ll have it forever.
Lexile/DRA/Scholastic Counts conversions, the sweet parent note you found inmyour mailbox. In my first-year teacher, I found that I was handed so many great resources, but two months later I have no idea where they are. Yes, I have a folder, but *sometimes* I am an overly aggressive purger. Hand a document to me; I’ll have it for the week. Send me the document in an email or PDF; and I’ll have it forever.
DocScan HD which allows you to scan in any document, handout, magazine, etc. and it will turn it into a PDF that can be emailed or saved to DropBox (it is an app that costs $1.99 but to me, it’s totally worth it)! Below I’ve show how this little app works.
Within DocScan, I keep several folders active – Staff Meeting Handouts, Positive Notes, Assessments, Student Resources, and Professional Development. I’ve loved using the app to store magazine articles I want to share with my 5th graders. I can save the articles so I have them for future years, as well as, allowing me to add the articles to our 5th grade Showbie account.
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It’s a really simple app, but fantastic for storing hard-copy materials in a digital format, so you always have access to them! Do you have any favorite apps for scanning documents or the perfect system for organizing staff meeting materials? If so, please let me know! I love learning new tricks. Happy organizing, friends! 🙂
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Natalie Grady says
June 25, 2014 at 11:04 pmThanks for sharing this! I will definitely check it out! I currently use Cam Scanner…it has many of the same features.
Kate says
June 26, 2014 at 12:07 amAwesome, Natalie! I'll have to check out Cam Scanner. Thanks for the recommendation. 🙂
Rachel Vincent says
June 25, 2014 at 11:14 pmWe have this app on our school ipads and never really used it! Thanks for the quick tutorial! I will use this all the time now!!
Rachel
A Tall Drink of Water
Kate says
June 26, 2014 at 12:06 amOoo..it's a great one to use! Plus, it's an easy way to store files. 🙂
Paula Shaw says
June 26, 2014 at 12:47 amThis is a great app – I checked it out and will definitley be using it
Paula from Paula’s Place and iSURF Maths
Lessons Learned says
June 26, 2014 at 2:21 amNo way, so you just photograph/scan it from your phone camera? I'm in. Or am I missing something?
– Sydney 🙂
Lessons Learned
Kate says
June 26, 2014 at 2:23 amYep, it's that easy! You can organize them in folders and then, save them as a PDF. Then, I save them to my DropBox or leave them on DocScan. Either way, it's simple! 🙂
Jamie Prichard says
June 26, 2014 at 2:59 amThanks, Catherine! It's funny, I had this app a few years ago, but never used it! Now I'm putting it back on my phone!
Jamie
Thrills in Third Grade
Letters and Numbers says
June 26, 2014 at 4:00 amVery interesting! Just downloaded the app. Thank you for sharing!
Chelsea says
June 26, 2014 at 4:25 amThis is great! Thanks for sharing!
Chelsea
Fifth Grade Wit and
Whimsy
Kristen Doyle says
June 26, 2014 at 11:01 amThis is awesome! I'm downloading it right now! I hope you'll link this up with our Technology Thursday linky!
-Kristen
Teaching Trio
Mona says
June 26, 2014 at 11:34 amWow! This looks great. I'll be downloading it. Thanks for the tutorial.
Mona
First Grade Schoolhouse
Kristin says
June 29, 2014 at 1:45 pmThis is such a great idea. Our copier is actually a scanner, so I can probably use that instead, but like you I am a super purger and get rid of things easily. Creating folders for things on my computer for digital versions is probably something I should start doing!
Kristin
Teaching In A Nutshell
April Walker says
July 1, 2014 at 9:47 pmThe scanner on my printer is so temperamental. I am definitely going to check out this app. Thanks!
~April Walker
The Idea Backpack
Melissa, Dilly Dabbles says
July 2, 2014 at 2:47 amThis would be a great way to quickly scan and add notes and handouts from school to a class website to ensure parents have access to see them. I know many of those notes get lost and left behind by students. Thanks!