Day 18 – Screen Clippings with OneNote, best thing since sliced bread
30 Days with a Surface RT for Teachers
Teaching and Learning with a Windows 8 Tablet
My perceptions of the Surface RT are changing the more I use it and the same is true of OneNote, in a good way. The Surface RT is working out to be a great companion device for me. Like the iPad, the RT has long battery life but lacks some of the real horsepower I occasionally need to get all my work done. For the heavy-lifting I still need to turn to my Desktop computer or the Surface Pro.
It is now rare that I do not have the Surface RT close by. I usually have the Desktop IE browser open at all times and right along with it, OneNote.
Screen Clippings in OneNote
One of the workflows I routinely use is for taking Screen Clippings with OneNote. A Screen Clipping is like a photo snapshot of an area on the screen. To do this I navigate to a website that has something of interest I want to save to OneNote. I open the IE browser to the webpage of interest in full-screen mode on the Surface RTs Desktop, then I also bring up OneNote in full-screen mode on the Desktop. Think of this as OneNote being layered on top of the webpage on the Desktop of the RT.
Now, OneNote is on top and all I see, I change to the Notebook, Section, and Page where I want to save a note about the website of interest that is now behind OneNote. I place the cursor on the Page in OneNote where I want my note to be inserted and then go to the INSERT tab on the Ribbon Interface in OneNote.
From the INSERT tab you will see an icon for Screen Clipping. When you select the Screen Clipping icon OneNote minimizes, and whatever you had open in the background (in this case our full-screen Internet browser) fades-out. Your screen will now be dim and you will see a small cross-hair pointer that you can draw a rectangle around the area of the webpage that you want to make a Screen Clipping of. As soon as you draw the area of the screen to select it OneNote will automatically Paste it into your OneNote Notebook, pretty cool!
You can select a small area of the screen or the entire screen. I often only select a small portion of the screen that I am interested in. No need to capture a full webpage that is 80 percent advertisements, concentrate on the content you want to make note of.
Best of all, along with the Screen Clipping you just made, you also get a time and date stamp along with the URL of the webpage where you took the Screen Clipping from! Talk about useful!!!
How many times have you found something of interest on a website but cannot remember where it was? With OneNote and the Surface RT you no longer have that excuse as it is so easy to make Screen Clippings. Better yet, these screen clippings are searchable and you can add your own notes off to the side of the clippings about why you thought the webpage was worthy of saving in the first place.
With OneNote you can make different Sections or Pages to categorize your Screen Clippings. The choice is really up to you, the key is to make OneNote work for you.
For now, the Windows Key + S is the keyboard shortcut for making a screen clipping for OneNote. I have heard rumors that this may change in the next version of Windows (8.1) that is due out in about a month.
I keep the Send to OneNote app in my Taskbar of the RT Desktop, I use this like a shortcut to quickly take a Screen Clipping of anything I have displayed on the Desktop. This only works on the RT in Desktop mode, if I am using a modern app or the Start Screen and I need to take a Screen Clipping I currently use the Windows Key + S keyboard shortcut.
You do not need to confine yourself to making Screen Clippings of webpages, this also works for anything else on the screen. You could make a Screen Clipping of Word, Excel, PowerPoint files. This is a great way to illustrate things in the classroom and you can use OneNote like a telestrator using the DRAW tools built into OneNote. Watch a YouTube video, pause the screen, take a Screen Clipping and annotate away. Any coaches out there?
If you are a teacher, student, or coach, you really do need to give OneNote a try, it comes free with the Surface RT.
OneNote Rocks!
Until next time...
Keep on Learning,
Keep on Learning,
Tom Grissom, PhD
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