What is your classroom like?
So my new year’s resolution is to write one blog post a week.I thought I would start off by answering a question I was asked during #PubPD in October. Now, #PubPD is a fun evening where teachers gather together in…
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Thoughts on Google versus Office
This was a recent question posted amongst school educators G suite versus Office 365. Thoughts? Since I wrote a fair bit, I thought I’d also post it here: If people are learning with a modern pen-based tablet pc, or are…
OneNotes upon OneNotes…
We’re just prepping for the start of the school year (we don’t start teaching until the 12th) and I just thought I’d run through how enmeshed Microsoft OneNote is to our school. 1) Class OneNotes — this is where it…
So you want to hack your OneNote Class Notebook
Taking a brief break from my “Getting Started with OneNote Class Notebook” series (you can start that one here)… This is a little advanced so if you’re not comfortable setting permissions inside of Office365 you may want to avoid this.…
Facilitating Feedback in OneNote
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…
Distributing content in your Class Notebook (the video)
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…
Giving content to students
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…
Getting things ready for students in your OneNote
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…
Page One of your OneNote Class Notebook
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…
Start a new year with OneNote
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…