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# Ani Saraf said on May 19, 2008 3:35 PM:

Nice to see you finally blogging Mike. Looking forward to your posts :).

Ani

# John Phillips said on May 19, 2008 5:27 PM:

Hi Mike:

Nice work! Your support of our work at Forest Ridge School in using OneNote in our rich teaching with technology environment has been great.  Thanks!

Blog on!  John

# Jorge Nelson said on May 19, 2008 7:45 PM:

Mike,

You truly are the OneNote Ninja!

Congratulations on this new initiative and let me know how we can help.

Lead on, oh master.

Jorge

# Gregg said on May 19, 2008 8:03 PM:

Mike,

"...I've seen some amazing things that people have done with OneNote...". Love to see some examples of this stuff. I regularly use OneNote and can see the opportunities but practical examples are invaluable.  

Gregg

# Sean Valley said on May 19, 2008 8:27 PM:

Mike - You are rockin' some worlds here in the back of the room!  Go OneNote Ninja!

# Sam Morris said on May 19, 2008 8:49 PM:

It is great to see you blogging on this.  We are in the 2nd year of our Tablet PC implementation for all kids grade 6 - 12.  OneNote has been an integral part of the early success of our program.  Last year, after just six months, when our Middle Schoolers were asked "What technology/computer activity has helped you learn most?" 25% of the students cited ON specifically.  If you need some real world examples of its use, we'd be happy to share.  Here is a presentation I have given about ON's use at our school:  http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/sam_morris/ncaistech_2008/OneNote.pdf  

# Kathy Jacobs said on May 19, 2008 9:06 PM:

So you are the OneNote Ninja! Is that how @swvalley found me on Twitter? Glad to see you finally blogging... It is about time. Can't wait to see what you have to say here.

# Michael Greene said on May 19, 2008 10:09 PM:

I'm really excited to see this blog evolve.  OneNote is, in my opinion, the killer-app for students.  Go Ninja!!!  Perhaps we'll see some video soon???

# Jorge Nelson said on May 20, 2008 1:50 AM:

Have you heard him sing his composition re: OneNote yet?

Mike, give us a chorus of "My One and Only OneNote"!

You rock!

# TJinbelfast said on May 20, 2008 11:15 AM:

Mike-I'm looking forward to hearing all about the latest and greatest developments in OneNote- "the best application out there !!"

# Dominic Watts said on May 20, 2008 2:32 PM:

Hello Mike, I'm looking forward to reading your blog and learning more about OneNote in Education.  For many years, I have believed that OneNote has a great role to play in learning but I struggle to fully understand and comprehend the full capability so this should be a great way to learn more.

Regards - Dominic

# Shawn McClelland said on May 20, 2008 4:58 PM:

I expect big things :)!  I have a blog about my graduate school experiences with Onenote. It came in quite handy in class, but now I'm mostly in the lab - where it is even more handy!

e-lab-book.com

# Richard Snyder said on May 20, 2008 5:27 PM:

Great class yesterday - so many ideas and (now) questions for OneNote.  Cheers!

# Cliff Brooks said on May 20, 2008 6:30 PM:

"Let me tell you bout my favorite application..."

I've listened to that geeky masterpiece more times than I'd like to admit (: You're a most talented guy, er, Ninja! Eager to read more about my favorite application!

# Joel said on May 20, 2008 9:54 PM:

I love one note and hope to see great tips here...

# Deb Sewell said on May 20, 2008 10:48 PM:

Hi Mike-

I use OneNote with all of my students here at Appleby College. I love it- my students love it. I would be more than happy to share how we use it for organization and for collaborative owrk. The students love the live sharing and it helps me as a teacher as you watch how they problem solve. I make it part of their assignments- One thing that the kids woudl like to have is word count in OneNote- and it would be really helpful to have MLA adn APA formatting already assigned in OneNote. Is that possible? I agree with you that OneNote is the way to go for the 21st century.

Deb

# Mike_Tholfsen said on May 21, 2008 12:49 AM:

Hi folks - great to see such a positive response here.  A few things:

1) Thank you Sam Morris for posting the link to what you've been doing.  This is exactly the type of thing I'm hoping to see on this blog.  There are so many great things happening in the education world and I'm looking forward to seeing things like this

2) Deb - there is a Word Count powertoy you can use - here's the link: http://www.onenotepowertoys.com/2007/02/17/onenote-2007-word-count/

3) Jorge - no singing of the OneNote song yet, but who knows.  Maybe I'll cook up a nice sing-a-long in the future :-)

-mike

# Ken Forbus said on May 21, 2008 1:00 AM:

Great idea for a blog.  I use OneNote as my research notebook as well as for organizing class materials and taking notes in meetings.  OneNote Mobile makes it easy to capture ideas when I don't have a tablet around.  I typically use 5-6 machines during the day, so having a single, searchable place to collect stuff that lives in a "cloud" of its own is essential.  

# AndriyB said on May 21, 2008 3:13 AM:

Great Idea! Coomon extremely useful information - that's what we need!

# Anjuli Ahooja (Appleby College) said on May 21, 2008 10:15 AM:

Thank you, Deb, for making us aware of this blog. It will be a great learning experience for everyone!

OneNote is great for organising all material. The students love it here at Appleby College. We are an e-school, and are very fortunate to have the latest technology. OneNote is one of the best things (after tablet Laptops) that has happened here! One thing I love about OneNote is (some of you may already be doing this) sharing the students Note Books for assignments submission and marking. The students drop their assignments on their shared Notebook and synch it with mine. I mark them, convert them to PDF and drop them back in their Notebook. It is a step towards paperless courses (go green!).

# Travis Smith said on May 22, 2008 7:33 AM:

Hi There! We have been using OneNote to deliver much of our students' curriculum since 2006 at Frankston High School (Melbourne, Australia), and it has been great. We have some pretty cool examples of how we have used OneNote in the classroom across the curriculum so I will try to organise some of them and post them up here for you to have a look at.

Looking forward to staying in touch and learning from everyone.

Travis.

# Jose R. Ortiz said on May 22, 2008 12:38 PM:

Great to see a blog dedicated to the use of OneNote in the education sector. I first purchased a slate in 2005 with the specific purpose of using OneNote in the classroom. Since then, I have persuaded quite a few classmates and even my sister to use OneNote, even if they don't have a tablet. Look forward to reading the great content that is sure to come.

# WNewquay said on May 22, 2008 1:09 PM:

Hi Mike,

I am heavily involved in the post-secondary education space and I am really looking forward to reading your thoughts and ideas about how OneNote can be used effectively in that environment.

Glad to see you here!

# Mobile PC (Tablet PC) - Thoughts and Ideas said on May 22, 2008 1:17 PM:

Mike Tholfsen - Test Manager of the OneNote Team has kicked off his blog, OneNote and Education . I am

# Tom Escott said on May 22, 2008 1:34 PM:

I've used OneNote in the classroom for a couple of years with my Tablet PC. It is great for creating a lesson plan that uses links to files and Web sites.

Looking forward to blogging with you and the education community.

# David Topps said on May 23, 2008 10:10 PM:

Great to see this blog focus on education. Love ON - best piece of software to come out of Microsoft for years.

For us, it has been a wonderful tool for flexibly annotating videos of consultations during the training of our medical students and residents. We use standardised patients, and structured orals, where their performance is recorded on video for feedback. The biggest challenge for our faculty was that typical video annotation software was cumbersome, with its roots based in the surveillance area. OneNote is so much more user-friendly, especially for infrequent users (we have a lot of part-time faculty).

One challenge that we would love to address is the video quality. As I understand it, ON is set up to capture any DirectX video stream. While this is easy enough with golf ball web cams, we would like to use slightly better cameras such as the Sony iPela unit. Would anybody have any information on who we could work with to capture higher quality digital video output into the videostream recorded by ON.

Our teachers love the ability to quickly jump back to previous spots in the video to illustrate good or bad points in consultation technique. So much more intuitive clicking the note made at the time than messing with a storyboard timeline.

Dr David Topps

Director eLearning

Northern Ontario School of Medicine

+1.705.662.7283

# Beth Adamczyk said on May 24, 2008 10:23 AM:

Just beginning our 1:1 tablet program (9-12). We are hoping to make One-Note a big part of it. I am looking forward to learning great things here!

# Peter Vogl said on May 25, 2008 7:45 AM:

Hi, I am physics professor in Munich, Germany and have been using OneNote since 2002. By now, most of my colleagues use it regularly for lecturing.

We are offering OneNtoe 2007 to our students via Terminal Service (Windows Server 2008). However, there is an issue with redirecting audio. I'd appreciate if you fork this blog to a technical discussion group.

# Travis Smith said on May 25, 2008 11:37 PM:

I would like to know if there are other people out there using OneNote with junior secondary school aged kids (about 13-14 years old)? We are using it with those ages and they do find it difficult to navigate around sometimes, and therefore find it easy to lose things. I would love it if a community like this had an opportunity to discuss these sorts of issues with Microsoft. I know there is huge potential for education but after a couple of years, some of our teachers are moving away from it becuase the kids lose things and find it challenging when moving from class to class 6 times a day.

It might even be an opportunity for M'Soft to lead the way with a new product based on OneNote but slightly simpler and with some additional features like greater control over users in shared sessions etc???

Any thoughts???

# istuart1 said on May 27, 2008 8:51 AM:

Looking forward to getting loads of hints and tips for using OneNote in a High School setting with pupils using UMPC's and staff using Tablet PC's

# Mike_Tholfsen said on May 29, 2008 9:05 AM:

Peter- the OneNote discussion forum is here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?lang=en&cr=US&dg=microsoft.public.onenote

Travis - I know many teachers who tell their students to just use the "Search" box in OneNote to find whatever they're looking for.  students, teachers, and humans in general often misplace things, whether paper of digital.  Many teachers have found success in always directing people to the search box.

# Suzanne said on June 3, 2008 10:49 PM:

New to one note fo looking forrward to learning a lot from you all!

# Relationship Compatibility said on June 7, 2008 6:58 PM:

This is the inaugural entry of the new OneNote and education blog! My name is Mike Tholfsen and I am the test manager of the OneNote team and will be the primary author of this blog. Since Dan , John , David , Olya , Michael , Jeff , and Chris ( ex-OneNot

# Uravashi Beniwal said on January 19, 2009 2:58 AM:

Onenote is a great resource for the teachers and students.

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