OneNote Class Notebook Journey

Our Journey with OneNote Class Notebook... 

     Our journey began last year when ten teachers piloted Class Notebook at our high school.  Many of our teachers, especially in the math department, had a love of OneNote already.  Class Notebook made that love stronger.  OneNote Class Notebook allows the teacher to create a OneNote Notebook and add students to it so they can have a personal workspace.  The teacher can distribute material to the students, review work, and everyone can ink.  Over the summer, I facilitated an online "Summer Tech Challenge" in which teachers were invited to strengthen their Class Notebook skills or begin the journey with class notebook.  Twenty teachers accepted the challenge.  At this point in the school year, we have twenty teachers using Class Notebook plus our principal. Another teacher is interested in joining the journey during the second quarter. These teachers are in the science, math, foreign language, english, social studies, and theology departments.  OneNote Class Notebook is for ALL.

Along the way, we have learned the following:

• Creating a Teacher Notebook for each course you teach is extremely beneficial.  This helps the teacher get organized and makes distributing material to the class notebook super easy.
• The Class Notebook Add-in is essential.  This extra tab in OneNote makes makes distributing and reviewing work quick and easy.
• A teacher can distribute a section group to students and then distribute chapters to that section group.  

 

(section group)

 

(tabs within section Chapter 1 section group)

• When training students on the class notebook, we are making it a priority to train them to NOT rename pages teachers distribute nor put "extra" material in a section distributed by the teacher. This helps when reviewing work.  We tell them "if it's not in the right place, it won't be seen by the teacher" because the teacher is not likely to hunt for the work.
• Sending feedback is so worth it.  The OneNote people are incredible and so fast in their replies. I skyped with someone today who is helping us figure out something.  Thank you, OneNote! May your purple cape always fly!

Items You May Have Missed...

Give yourself time on your Tech Journal for reading/investigating the info. below...

Save Time by Adding a Table of Contents to a Google Doc - I did this with the Tech Toolbox (click here to see it).

Google Form Self-Grading Quiz Slideshow (you can use DyKnow URL filter "Google Classroom, Docs, Drive, & Moodle" to make it more secure).

Got a new hard drive? (see Mel for any help you need)
When a teacher gets a new harddrive, the teacher will need to add back the following:  

• lite show
• google drive
• grade quick (have to right-click the file and choose run as admin)
• office 365's onedrive (have to add this as a place in OneNote)
• onenote notebooks
• exam view; test gen (ask Dept. ILT Leader where CDs are if you don't know)
• printers
• respondus
• check sound and microphone

Click the link to hear a SHORT but IMPORTANT message from Melanie (from 3/11/16)

https://mix.office.com/watch/1os04s0llwbs7?autoplay=1

By the way, this was made with Snip.  I can envision a lot of ways to use this in teaching, so see me if you want to learn about it.  I do plan on having a class in the near future.  It's SUPER EASY to use. Literally took me 5 minutes to make.  

Ways to use Snip:

• quick message to students about ANYTHING
• illustrating a problem on the fly to post on Moodle News Forum which also emails students (it has a whiteboard)
• instructions for a project to post on Moodle with your narration
• how to annotate something
• narrate over an image 
• Deacon and I got a shot of the gym from Google Earth and used it to draw a map for the basketball game against Carroll (see below)
  

Computer running slow?  Watch this short video to learn how to use CCleaner to keep your computer healthy and clean.

Looking for something like Kahoot! that you can use for class review?  Try Quizlet Live (simple, short article shared by Kim Foreman).

• Once you log in (if you don't already have an account, you can log in with Google) try the demo of Quizlet Live that will show you how it works.
• Ask Melanie if you need help.

Sway, Star Wars, FREE Day of Discovery in Alexandria, PBS Digital Educator, Tech Ninja, Toolbox

Tired of the same old student presentations?  Microsoft Sway is the answer. 

It's an easy way to create interactive presentations, newsletters, etc.  I'll be sending out my schedule for next week, so consider signing up for the Sway class.  Groups can use Sway to create projects because you can collaborate with Sway just like you can

with a Google presentation.  Ashley Lavine teaches her computer students about Sway, so she is another great resource.

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Are you a Star Wars fan?  

See how you can teach Star Wars with the New York Times in any subject area (that's right - English, Math, Science, History, Economics, Journalism, Art - I bet you Religion teachers can get inspired as well).  This is so cool!  Click the link above or the image below.

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Discovery Education, in partnership with Louisiana Public Broadcasting is proud to Invite You...

2016 Day of Discovery (click link for more info. - FREE)

Hosted by Rapides Parish Schools

Thursday, January 28, 2016

8:30AM - 3:00PM

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Enter Today to Become a PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator!

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Saturday, Feb. 13th - Click "Go from Technophobic to Tech Ninja" to register!

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Don't forget about the Teacher Tech Toolbox!

Learning Opportunities including Hack the Classroom & Google Drive Organization

Upcoming Learning Opportunities: (of course all of this can be recorded on your tech journal)

January 30th - Hack the Classroom - REGISTER HERE (sign up - it's ok if something comes up and you aren't able to "go" online and attend).  Please let me know if you sign up and "go" - I'd like to put in the next newsletter how many of us #hackedtheclassroom.

Mini LACUE at Brusly High School on Saturday, Feb. 27th.  It's only $10.  Ashley Lavine and I are definitely going and will carpool.  Those who go, get 5 CLU's.  REGISTER HERE and mail in your payment.  Please let me know if you are going.

Need to find the adjusted schedule for the week?

(The pictures didn't show in the email, so this is what it was supposed to look like.)

You can find it in 2 places:

1. In the OneNote planner
2. On Moodle, you can click on today's date on the calendar and "click here" to see the adjusted schedule.

3rd Quarter Grades in 3rd Quarter Folder

Many of you are posting 3rd quarter grades.  Please remember to set the date so that grades after 12/19/15 are sent to Edline.  You will also need to create a 3rd Quarter folder when you post grades the first time.  I'm attaching a short video that walks you through the process as well as attaching instructions.  Let me know if you need help.  Have a Happy Friday!

The instructions show that you choose Semester 2, but you will continue to choose Semester 1.

How to Post 3rd Quarter Grades

Online Tech Camp Opportunity for Teachers

I recently sent you information about a free digital learning event by Microsoft called Hack the Classroom.  It's on January 30th beginning at 10 AM.  You can sign up for the sessions you want to attend digitally.  Register HERE.

Here's another FREE opportunity called edCamp Global, which is a 24 hour digital learning event from January 28-29.  Click HERE for more information. Click HERE to register.

You can look at the sessions and see if there's anything interesting that you want to attend and if it's at a time you can log in digitally through whatever platform they will be using.  (I can help you with this part, if needed).

Of course, any time you spend should be recorded on your tech journal.  I'm already registered for the Hack the Classroom event.