size 20, blue, bold) to the tool bar to quickly make headings. easy pre-set formatting – you can add pre-set formats (e.g.insert webclips – very useful to bung in a bookmarked screenshot of sites we discuss, or YouTube videos we are shown in class.

draw figures – the new version supports handwriting on the page, so I find I am using this option less than I used to, but it is still useful for the pre-formatted shapes (circles, rectangles etc).

handwrite directly on the page – I use this a lot for maths, much quicker than trying to type equations or numbers on the iPad.quickly add and annotate photos (so I usually photograph the paper handouts we are given).I like the pretty colours for organising notes into categories, it is easy to use and has lots of great features. For day to day notes in lectures and seminars, I use Notability (which is on sale at the moment and well worth several times its current price of 69p). I use my iPad every day, I bought it instead of a laptop for my PGCE course and it hasn’t let me down. As I am trying to think about my second PGCE assignment, and what topic I will use for an action research project on my second teaching placement, the ideal displacement activity is blogging about my reading and note taking methods that I use 😉 Taking notes in class

Notability and evernote