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 a local pub and over the course of an hour, we discuss questions posted to […]
Tag: OneNote Class Notebook
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 learning math, science, or languages outside of the QWERTY keyboard, then it is Office365 specifically […]
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 all started five years ago, so we have over 2500 Class Notebooks in our archive. […]
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 own space, you as the teacher will want to give them things to work on […]
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 to have to photocopy material we wanted to give to students. And then, for students […]
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 spaces in the same way– it’s open, responsive and yet provides enough structure to prevent […]
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 adding to its functionality, they have kept teachers very close to the developers and each […]
400,000 and 3.5 million
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 make me that?” And he could, and he did.In 2013, I presented a paper & […]
#My24Hrs Part 2
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 lot of time to run around to classes. I managed to pop into one geography […]
#My24Hrs Part 1
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 I can find 5 minutes of savings for a teacher in their class, that’s time […]