Thursday, January 19, 2017

OneNote Student Avengers

What are OneNote Student Avengers? Basically, they are students who have demonstrated how to do certain tasks in OneNote in order to become trainers and mentors for teachers and students.  OneNote is the most heavily used program at our school. You can learn more about the Student Avenger program and how we started it here.  

As of today, we have 12 student avengers and they are doing great work! They each have a training journal in a OneNote class notebook that I shared with them to record the mentoring and training they are doing. The training journals will help us determine the issues students encounter most often as well as help us prepare training for the next school year.  

One Avenger's Training Journal


I know our training program for the students is going to get even better with the Avengers' help. They have such great ideas. One student had the idea to put a section in the collaboration space of the class notebook so all of us can put tips & tricks or instructions for certain fixes. I will also meet with the students periodically to update them on new features or fixes and get their feedback. 

Our administration is very supportive and tomorrow the Avengers will be able to wear their OneNote capes all day! (group picture coming soon) This was our IT Director's idea. A list of the students with email addresses will be available for teachers and students so they know who to contact for help. We are also in the process of setting up a skype with a member of the OneNote team so the Avengers and other students in the Computer Architecture class can ask questions. The @Microsoft_EDU team and @OneNoteEDU team have been amazing, and their encouragement made this all a reality. The Avenger badges they created for the students are fantastic! There's only one way to go from here. As Superman would say, "Up, up, and away!"





Leading from the Library

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I last posted.  What a strange year! Since I last posted, I have been trying to "...