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 picture à propos of nothing, except perhaps the recognition of the dying days of a teacher’s summer vacation One of the major aspects of my job (and admittedly, one of my favourites) is finding ways to smooth out wrinkles…
Last year’s introduction of shared OneNote Binders to our school really provided more fluid communication between teacher and student — because there was anytime, anywhere, “any media” access to all of the student and teacher notes there is now a…
I have the incredible good fortune to watch a French teacher work over the next month. She’s taken on the responsibility for a Grade 10 French summer course for students. The challenge is that she is teaching it online to…
As we continue to prepare for the coming academic year (we don’t start classes until the week after Labour Day) I’ve begun to prepare the data for the Faculty. One of the introductions last year was the “Duty Calendar” —…
Well, I’ve nudged some middle managers forward. While OneNote is the major collaborative space that we use here at School, it’s not the most comfortable working environment for folks groomed on Word, Excel and Powerpoint. We have in the past…
Teachers try to be efficient with their use of time; like first responders, teachers are dealing with situations that are often dealt with immediately, in the moment. They want to provide opportunities for students to show their learning, and then…
One of my biggest goals this year has been to ensure that people have the information they need, when they need it in the form that they find usable. We’ve made some great steps forward using Excel to re-package a…
The School has been trying to leverage OneNote and its sharing and syncing capabilities ever since OneNote was introduced in 2003 … in a 1:1 tablet computer environment it’s a natural fit for both teachers and students. Each page that…