Day 23 – Top Secret: Shhh, OneNote is one of best kept secrets of Office 365
10/15/2014
30 Days with Office 365 for Educators - Day 23
Want to know a secret?
OneNote is one of my favorite apps for teaching and learning and it’s FREE!
For teachers and students, OneNote is one of the best kept secrets of the entire Microsoft Office 2013 Suite. OneNote is an absolutely fantastic program for keeping notes (something that teachers and students do often) but it can be so much more. OneNote is a natural fit for keeping ePortfolios that can be shared with others easily using OneDrive.
For teachers and students, OneNote is one of the best kept secrets of the entire Microsoft Office 2013 Suite. OneNote is an absolutely fantastic program for keeping notes (something that teachers and students do often) but it can be so much more. OneNote is a natural fit for keeping ePortfolios that can be shared with others easily using OneDrive.
If you have been following me online, either on Twitter or here at the ITC Chronicles blog, you know I am a HUGE fan of OneNote for teaching and learning purposes.
Think of OneNote as your digital 3-Ring Binder “in the Cloud”.
OneNote uses a familiar notebook metaphor to organize and store information online. This format will be familiar to teachers and students alike as OneNote is organized into digital Notebooks that have Sections, and within Sections you have Pages, just like the analog equivalent.
The power of OneNote comes with its ability to store all types of content including; text, images, audio, video, screenshots, doodles, and handwritten notes.
Search capability is built-in including the ability to search handwritten notes (if they are legible). OneNote even has Optical Character Recognition (OCR) where you can search and extract text within images.
You can store your Notebooks locally where they are only available to you, or you can save OneNote Notebooks to the cloud using OneDrive where your Notebooks will be available to access on any device with Internet access, including your mobile phone!
If you store OneNote notebooks to the cloud you can also share them with your students if you so choose. Imagine students having immediate access to the teachers notes as soon as the lesson is over. No need to imagine any longer, teachers can now provide real-time notes to students if they choose to share their class OneNote notebook. See the YouTube video at the end of this post for an example.
If you store OneNote notebooks to the cloud you can also share them with your students if you so choose. Imagine students having immediate access to the teachers notes as soon as the lesson is over. No need to imagine any longer, teachers can now provide real-time notes to students if they choose to share their class OneNote notebook. See the YouTube video at the end of this post for an example.
The OneNote Online app is included as part of Office 365. In my experience OneNote is often undiscovered by teachers and students and when they do discover it they wonder how they ever worked without it. Many know about Word, Excel, and PowerPoint but it seems few take advantage of the wonderful possibilities OneNote provides teachers and students.
Note-taking is often overlooked as a necessary learning skill to be mastered by students. A little time spent with students upfront with their organization and study skill strategies can pay off big for improving student learning outcomes for years to come. OneNote can help students and teachers alike with its great note-taking capabilities.
The other advantage of the OneNote Online app is that it is cross-platform. There are OneNote apps for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. This is a huge benefit as many schools now live in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) world, thankfully OneNote is versatile enough to work on many different types of devices. I will leave you with an embedded YouTube video explaining the benefits of working with OneNote for teachers and students.
OneNote in Education: A framework for teaching and learning with OneNote class notebooks
It is with this new combination of cloud computing, tablets with digital Pens, and apps like OneNote that are driving unprecedented innovation in the modern classroom. Tools like these when used with effective pedagogies really are game changing technologies and offer great potential for the future of teaching and learning. Wow!
To the cloud!
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, Ph.D.
Twitter: @tomgtrissom
Tom Grissom, Ph.D.
Twitter: @tomgtrissom
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