5 things about the Microsoft Band
Cal Armstrong (So I ran into Minnia Feng, the Community Organizer for the Microsoft Expert Educators when I was in Redmond last month and she mentioned I'd taken her "5 item listicles"…
Yammer : 5 reasons to explore a new space
Continuing on the Microsoft Expert Educator suggestion to make 5-tips-articles here's one on Yammer.Yammer is part of Office365 and is free to schools, faculty and students as part of their…
Art and #OneNote ? My 5 responses
So a colleague posted this on a Yammer conversation the other day and I didn't want to try to post to it without some explanations, for which Yammer did not…
Top 5 reasons to use #OneNote in your classroom
Microsoft asked if we could put together 5-point tip lists. As it happens, I had started to scribble down some thoughts on a recent snow day (a Rumspringa for teachers)…
The 5 Next Steps a Teacher takes with the #OneNoteClass Notebook
We've had almost four years with our OneNote ClassBinder, having rolled it out to every class from 7 to 12, math to languages to phys-ed every year. In the first…
Hacking the OneNote Class Notebook Part II : A digital portfolio
So as soon as I posted the previous blog on changing permissions, I was asked how I would create a Digital Portfolio section inside the student's section; that is, a…
Hacking the OneNote Class Notebook Part III : Planning in _Private
I realized the other day while writing Parts 1 (link) & 2 (link) that I'd never talked about the Private Teacher Section Group in our OneNote Binders...During our first year…
Hacking the OneNote Classroom Notebook
So the amazing Marilyn Steier, an educator from Alberta I met while in Barcelona for the Microsoft Global Forum last year, asked a question on Microsoft's Canada Education Yammer group…
I felt this tingle while shoveling snow…
So we had a snow day Monday. I won't go in to the gloriousness that a snow day is here in Canada. Suffice it to say that they're as close…
There’s no I in TEAM (there’s an _A, _M and _R though!)
When we first introduced the OneNote Binders, amongst the immediate requests was for group collaboration spaces. For the first year, we had the teachers request them through our IT request…