When we were creating the precursor to the OneNote Class Notebook, I was heavily influenced (well, I still am) by the work of Black & Wiliam and so improving the quality and quantity of formative assessment is cooked right into…
In the previous post Distributing content in your Class Notebook, I went through the steps of distributing a page to each of my students (effectively handing out what I wanted them to look at). What’s nice is that it doesn’t…
Regardless of your teaching style, you’re going to want to provide students with content – articles to read, worksheets to practice, diagrams to explore, maps to color, etc. While OneNote allows the students complete freedom in constructing content within their…
So far we’ve created a Class Notebook *link* and made the first page our own *link*. Now we’re going to provide some content for the students. The _Content Library is where all YOUR stuff goes; it’s the Teacher space. We used…
So when OneNote Class Notebook was first designed, it was put together by teachers from several subject areas, each with different approaches to classroom, content and assessment processes. OneNote was chosen specifically because it allowed teachers to maintain their digital…
I think one of the biggest strengths of the OneNote Class Notebook was that it was started in the classroom and designed, from the bottom up, by classroom teachers in their classrooms. Even after Microsoft took it on and began…
Andrew Campbell always encourages me to think about things, no less this time an utterance I boldly share from his Facebook timeline. ————Prediction: Your TL will be full of reaction to the horror of the shooting in #Orlando insisting things…
There are two pillars in the education sector right now, Google and Microsoft. Google has Google Appsfor Education which is made up of Google Drive (a file system), Google Docs, and a variety of other applications that work relatively well…
So I mentioned that one of the apps inside of Office365, Delve, is my best friend in a previous post – mostly because it’s an intelligent agent that helps me prioritize (and find) things I should be working on. If you…
I wrote this on Facebook for my family and friends… In the summer of 2012, I drew a diagram of a nested set of folders on a whiteboard and turned to Jason Llorin, our OneNote programmer, and asked “can you…