Day 17 – OneNote: Put it on your To-Do List
30 Days with a Surface RT for Teachers
Teaching and Learning with a Windows 8 Tablet
OneNote and the Surface RT are a great combination for teaching and learning. OneNote, as the name implies, is one place to keep all of your digital notes together in what are called Notebooks. Like the physical 3-Ring Binder you can organize digital Notebooks by topic. Within each digital Notebook you can make Sections, and within Sections you can add Pages, as many as you would like.
If you store your OneNote Notebooks on SkyDrive you can access them anywhere an Internet Connection is available using your Microsoft account.
You should give some thought to organizing your OneNote notebooks on the front-end as this will pay off big dividends later. Just like File Management having some structure to your notebooks will help you better organize, store, and retrieve your digital notes. OneNote has excellent searching capability but I have learned over the years that organizing things on the front-end saves much time in the long run.
Your first decision is whether you want to make your OneNote Notebook Public or Private. About 90 percent of my OneNote notebooks are private. You may want to make a Notebook public for an ePortfolio project or share with a few select students for a class notes notebook.
Organizing Notebooks, Sections, and Pages
I tend to organize things by academic year so here is an example OneNote notebook structure.
Notebook Name: EIU Grissom 2013
Section Name:
EIU Tech Committee 13-14
Page Name: June 2013 Meeting
July 2013 Meeting
August 2013 Meeting
Section Name: Toms To-Do Lists 2013
Page Name: June 2013
July 2013
August 2013
Here is another example that a teacher or student might use for a Biology Class
Notebook Name: Biology 101 (Fall 2013)
Section Name: Chapter 1
Page Name: Day 1 - 07012013
Day 2 - 07022013
Day 3 - 07032013
This structure works very well for me and keeps my notebooks organized by academic year or by semester. Next year I can replicate the structure and start anew. I often like to put in a date code like 07012013 for July 1, 2013 as I can search by the code if I want to know what I did in last Tuesdays class. That is just me, you can develop your own system that makes sense to you.
The other big payoff with organizing your notebooks upfront is that this will greatly help you later when you start searching for information contained in your notes. You can filter searchers by notebooks, sections, and pages. Once you start accumulating notes they quickly grow and narrowing your search criteria by notebook, section, or page is a good way to find things faster.
The other big payoff with organizing your notebooks upfront is that this will greatly help you later when you start searching for information contained in your notes. You can filter searchers by notebooks, sections, and pages. Once you start accumulating notes they quickly grow and narrowing your search criteria by notebook, section, or page is a good way to find things faster.
Let’s take a closer look at my To-Do List:
There are so many great things about OneNote for teachers and students that it is hard to know where to begin. Many teachers keep to-do lists and this is as good of place as any to start. To-Do Lists are immediately useful and will allow you to get a feel for how OneNote works.
I organize my To-Do Lists by month, but do whatever works for you. Maybe you have a project you are working on. You can make a section just for that project, for example – My Special Project 2013. You can then add Pages underneath the My Special Projects Section related to it. Often times I will only have one page under a section, especially for to-do lists as I do not want to scatter the information everywhere.
If it is a really big special project you might want to consider making it its own Notebook.
If it is a really big special project you might want to consider making it its own Notebook.
If you are new to OneNote 2013 I highly recommend you go through this introductory tutorial by clicking on the following link:
Create your first OneNote 2013 notebook
This tutorial is a PowerPoint .pptx file that contains short videos about how to use OneNote.
The other tutorial I would suggest is “Make the switch to OneNote 2013”. Both tutorials are well done and each topic within the PowerPoint is only two to three minutes in length.
Make the switch to OneNote 2013
If you would like you can download the PowerPoint files locally to the Surface RT and watch the videos locally, even if you do not have an Internet connection.
Microsoft has developed additional training materials for other Office 2013 applications and I highly recommend you take a few minutes and go through the tutorials. If you are interested in learning more about using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote on the Surface RT click on the link below for other tutorials.
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So, with that, you should be well on your way to discovering what OneNote 2013 and the other Office applications can do for you when using the Surface RT.
Until next time...
Keep on Learning,
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, PhD
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