We are now forced to use Canvas (a web based LMS) for our courses. I won’t list the reasons why I dislike Canvas and think it’s a terrible thing for education generally but suffice it to say, it’s better for both me and my students to do our work in OneNote. So… how do I […]
So in this time of remote learning, I like to do activities in small groups that are self-checking so that I don’t have to rely on automation. We did a Clue (or Cluedo if you’re British) for our last unit review and this time for our Quadratic Formula mini-unit I thought I’d do a card […]
This is one of those things that I always assume people know… but then they don’t! You can send (almost) anything to the email address me@onenote.com and it will create a new page with whatever was in the email, along with any attachments. This makes it easy to have meeting notes, travel plans, orders, receipts, […]
Folks have been waiting a while to get Equation Editor into OneNote (Win10 version… it’s been in 2016/Desktop for forever). Now, the funny thing is this won’t make a huge deal for me. I tend to just write my equations out, and if it’s for more serious distribution I tend to write it in Word. […]
When we return from March Break, we tend to have a teacher-only day of PD and meetings. The admin had broken the faculty into 3 groups for two sessions and hadn’t planned anything for the third so I suggested I run a tech PD.Since this would be my swan song as the tech guy I […]
This post wouldn’t have been possible without Eric in our IT Dept — he fixed a network setting that prevented us from using TakeATest last year… so a huge shout-out to him (he’s likely relieved because I’ve been pestering him for the past couple of years!)Built into Windows10 (right from its initial release!) is the […]
Microsoft recently began rolling out an update to their Post-It Note software, which they call StickyNotes – now at version 3. You can get it in the Microsoft Store here. For the sake of clarity, I’ll continue to refer to them as Post-It Notes — they’re like Kleenex.What’s nice now is that the Notes now […]
When I’m working in OneNote on the night before classes, I always find it interesting to see who else is there working. The Windows10 version of OneNote (and OneNote Online) both include a People Presence option to show you who else is working in the same Notebook/ClassNotebook. When you click on the name of […]
I thought that everybody did this! But apparently, not. So this was my XKCD 10,000 moment this week. I happened to tweet the following — and I think it’s my popular tweet of all time. And as you can see, I was just at the end of class and tapped it out quickly… error included! The […]
So yesterday I mentioned about using Teams to do Screencasts – you can see that blog post by clicking here. Here’s a brief run-down of the process.When you’re in the Teams application, either as a reply to a message, or a brand new conversation, click on the MEET NOW button. It looks like a little […]