The OneNote. If you thought the One Ring was badass then
you have not been living. OneNote – the dream collaboration tool for teachers. Ok
it’s not the newest tool on the block but when it comes free with the Microsoft
365 package, you’d be a fool not to take note of it. With the growing use of
technology in the classroom, OneNote is an excellent tool for teachers to use a
collaboration space for students to upload articles, documents, links and so
forth. Sick of photocopying a million practice exam papers or just feeling like
a greenie? Upload it on OneNote. Students missing out on the lesson? Upload it
one OneNote. Want students to bring the resource you handed out yesterday with
them? Upload it on OneNote.
Sure we haven’t got to the stage yet where we don’t need
paper but OneNote is a sure as Pikachu way to save some! All of my classes have
an OneNote folder which makes planning and teaching a dream compared to having
bits of paper floating around the classroom and coming out of students books.
The beauty of OneNote is that you have separate folders within the folder, and
can add pages within the pages of these folders. The sky is the limit. The
Collaboration Space is a great tool to use when you are wanting students to
share notes with each other or you have questions that you want the whole class
to answer and have those answers displayed to everyone. The Content Library is
teacher controlled which means you upload whatever you want and the students
aren’t able to change or delete it. So be sure and put those delightful Year 9
photos of them up….I’m kidding, that’s not ok. There are also opportunities for
the students to have their own page within the folder which only the teacher
can access. This is great for when the students are doing individual work,
assessments or internally assessed standards. The teacher is able to comment
and give feedback on student work which can sometimes be a lot easier than
writing them on each essay. If you are wanting students to do something
constructive with the devices that they bring to class EVERY lesson, then get
them doing something on OneNote. A delightful learning location.
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