{"id":1050240,"date":"2018-07-31T05:39:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T10:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fractuslearning.com\/?p=1050240"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T17:19:41","slug":"onenote-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fractuslearning.com\/onenote-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Great Uses For OneNote & Lense In The Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t heard of OneNote<\/a>, it’s time you did.\u00a0 It’s often been described as a “digital 3-ring binder” because it’s a great resource for storing all your digital information.\u00a0 While that is true, it doesn’t capture just how full-featured OneNote has become over the years.\u00a0 When you add the capabilities of Office Lense<\/a> to the mix, you have a powerful learning framework that can really help simplify teaching in your classroom.<\/p>\n

Here are 7 ways OneNote and Office Lense can help you in your classroom.<\/p>\n

Keep Track of Everything You Need<\/h3>\n

OneNote was built around the idea that people should be able to capture just about any digital data and easily retrieve it.\u00a0 That means you have a lot of flexibility in just how you can organize your Pages and Sections – you can make it fit your style.<\/p>\n

If you don’t like to take time to organize, you can throw everything into one section and be done with it.\u00a0 Others use either time based (e.g., Week 1, Week 2) or Lesson-based (Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.) organization systems.\u00a0 Regardless of what you decide, you be confident that you’ll be able to easily find your information later because of the tagging\/searching capability.<\/p>\n

Tagging and Searching – Find Everything<\/h3>\n

Here’s the real beauty of OneNote in my mind.\u00a0 You can search all your notes.\u00a0 If you know what you are likely to want to search on, you can add tags to documents to speed up the process later.\u00a0 If not, OneNote has some exceptional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) built-in.<\/p>\n

What’s that mean?\u00a0OneNote can search not only your text but handwritten notes as well!<\/strong> In my past career, I would sometimes have 4 meetings a day that I would need to take notes – notes I’d eventually need to refer to a few months down the line.\u00a0 Once I discovered OneNote, I’d simply take a picture of my handwritten notes with Office Lens and import them into OneNote.\u00a0 \u00a0From that day on, I never had issues keeping track of my meeting notes.<\/p>\n

Use Office Lens + OneNote,\u00a0Save Resources and Go Paperless<\/h3>\n

Office Lens is an app for your phone that allows you to take pictures of papers, notes and other data and import it into OneNote. (You can also export the data into other formats).\u00a0 Instead of making photocopies of your handouts, you can share them through OneNote notebooks electronically.\u00a0 \u00a0No longer are you beholden to the whims of the copier!<\/p>\n

When a teacher uses the OneNote Class Notebook<\/a>, it becomes even easier to go nearly-paperless.\u00a0 We’ll talk more about that in the next section.<\/p>\n

Content Collaboration and Sharing<\/h3>\n

When students buy-in to using OneNote, note-taking goes from a solo to a group activity.\u00a0 For example, teachers can look at their students notes en\u00a0<\/em>masse<\/i>\u00a0 and see if the classroom as a whole is grasping what concepts you want to teach.\u00a0 You can also identify individual students that might need some extra time or support to help learn the lesson.<\/p>\n

Notebooks can be made available on any connected device if you so choose.\u00a0 Your own notes and work aren’t tied down to a particular operating system or location – and neither are your students.\u00a0 This can help students that are learning both in and outside of a traditional classroom. They don’t need to remember a physical notebook anymore – all their work can be in a OneNote notebook.<\/p>\n

Presenting Content<\/h3>\n

Notebooks can store both audio and video along with text.\u00a0 That means you can record notes and short videos for your students and make them available in notebooks for future review.\u00a0 Think of what a godsend this can be for a student that simply needs more time spent with a concept to master the skill.<\/p>\n

You have great flexibility when choosing how you wish to present information. In a live classroom setting, you can draw on a screen, type info, record your voice, take clippings of web pages – there are\u00a0so many<\/strong> ways to customize your presentation to meet your student’s needs.<\/p>\n

Allowing Flexible Teaching Styles<\/h3>\n

As Tom Grissom put it in his OneNote article,<\/p>\n

There are many things to manage in the classroom and OneNote lets the teacher decide upon the best pedagogy to use for a given situation. OneNote allows for easy review of older material and provides multiple methods for formative feedback in the moment that it is most effective.Tom Grissom, Ph.D.<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n

It’s really easy to review older lessons, but it’s easy to add new content as well.\u00a0 Notebooks are also helpful in personalizing instruction to the individual – I think it would be a great tool in managing flipped classrooms.<\/p>\n

Capture Whiteboards<\/h3>\n

Let’s say you are looking for an easy, quick way to test out OneNote in your classroom.\u00a0 Start by using Office Lens to “screen capture” your whiteboard.\u00a0 You can then share each days work as a tab in a subject of a notebook, and students will have an easy way to look back and review what you covered in class.<\/p>\n

It’ll take you maybe 2 mins a day to start this.\u00a0 See if it helps you or your students in their learning journey.\u00a0 More likely than not, you’ll get a feel for how powerful OneNote can be in your classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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