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…
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…
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…
Teacher content displayed on projector So it was optimistic of me to say I’d be able to post twice in the same day… so here I continue from #My24Hrs Part 1. So as it turned out, I didn’t have a…
I recently described myself as a devout pragmatist – and that has been reflected in the way I’ve taken on my role as technology liaison in our IT department. I’m not an evangelizer; I’m a productivity and efficiency consultant. If…
It often surprises me when folks don’t know about Office365 and/or don’t know how Microsoft has changed its educational offerings in the past few years. Although Google definitely had the lead up to say 2011, Microsoft has quickly come up…
While at the Bringing-IT-Together conference (one of the best gathering of learners in North America) in November 2015 I had the opportunity to present at a few sessions, mostly on OneNote (of course?) but I also got to work with some…
This follows on the hacking work done with OneNote Class Notebook – including adding a digital portfolio and a private planning area for teachers in the Content section. My amazing colleague Anjuli Ahooja is an active participant with Science On Stage.…
(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” by the horns. Long story short, I believe than when…