(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…
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 provide sufficient space. And since Microsoft encouraged us to post…
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) and never got it completed so while I’m on March…
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 year we had 85% of classes voluntarily use it —…
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 section that the teacher can add content to but the…
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 with the OneNote Binders (our initial design that ended…
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 (Link) about removing students and teachers from the OneNote Class…
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 to heaven as you can get without dying. It came…
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 system and manually created them and assigned the permissions. But,…
A friend asked the following on Facebook so I thought I’d provide my response to promote discussion more generally. Who all is in a one-to-one tablet school? How’s that going? Use them daily? Weekly? Monthly? Blue-moonly? Curious if the tablets…