OneNote and Education : Student

OneNote wishes you a happy Earth Day

Mike_Tholfsen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:52:00 GMT

April 22nd is Earth Day, and in celebration we've put together some great OneNote resources to help you and your schools reduce your paper usage with OneNote. I've written about this previously, including our web page on how to reduce paper/processing usage with OneNote. Whether it's using the Send to OneNote printer or moving training and on-boarding materials into OneNote notebooks, we think that using OneNote is a great way to both help the environment and save yourself some other "green" (as is $$$ dollars :-) These days, printing is costly to both the environment and school budgets.

Michael Oldenburg, OneNote's top-notch writer, has a great blog post all about OneNote and earth day,

Including the new Green Living Ideas notebook template that is being released today.

The Green Living Ideas notebook is free to download from our Templates site and it works with all versions of OneNote 2007 — including the free trial version. You can download other, free OneNote 2007 templates — including full notebooks plus individual sections and pages — from the OneNote Templates catalog on the Office Online Web site.

For more great Earth Day ideas, check out the Office blog entry for today.

Back to School with OneNote!

Mike_Tholfsen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:20:00 GMT

Hey folks - it's that time of year again. Reading, Riting and 'Rithmatic :-) I hope everyone has their pencils, erasers, books, lesson plans and a copy of OneNote handy!

I know that many teachers and professors out there are starting to experiment with OneNote for the first time this school year. Have you joined the Innovative Teachers Network yet? This is a great place to find other innovative and passionate teachers from around the world. I know there are many new students who will also be experimenting with the back to school tech gear their parents may have bought. I've also had the chance to speak with some lucky schools who are trying out 1:1 computing this year. I would love to hear from any or all of you on this blog. I had a great comment this morning on my old blog entry title "New OneNote resources for teachers - Come git' em' while they're hot!" In the comment, Nancy claims that "I am currently doing the 'happy dance' in front of my monitor!" I hope that many of you out there get a chance to try out the OneNote education resources that Nancy has discovered and do your own happy dance!

For those of you looking for examples of educators and schools using OneNote in interesting ways, I'll republish the list:

Examples of educators and schools using OneNote

Share with us what new things you are trying out this year with OneNote and technology. Tell us about your own happy dance!

OneNote curriculum project in Ireland

Mike_Tholfsen — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:10:00 GMT

Tom Jackson of Microsoft has been working with some Irish schools on a fascinating project using OneNote to develop and distribute curriculum to students. To understand the background of the project, read his initial blog entry from February.

Tom recently posted a new blog entry summarizing what they did. He will be adding more detailed blog entries regularly so be sure to check back. I cited a few parts of his entry below.

Supporting documents:

For site visitors on Tom's SkyDrive site here
If you're interested in the Curriculum Mapping piece that was a core part of the Northern Ireland solution, you can see a great video about it here

Quotes:

From Niall- Dunshaughlin CC Student: “I do believe that given the right training and equipment, - OneNote is the future for learning!"

Kevin Reilly- Dunshaughlin CC History Teacher:“Excellent software to facilitate organisation in a student’s learning.Inspires inquisitorial spirit e.g. students organised a guest speaker, Kari Rosvall” (See RTE video for her background)

OneNote and Learning Styles - I found the quote from Neil below to be particularly interesting as we have been talking about OneNote and learning styles as well. This seems to support the research that Dr. Ole Lauridsen has done with his "OneNote and Learning Styles - A Perfect Match." paper. If you haven't yet read his pamphlet or watched the video of Dr. Lauridsen, I would highly encourage you to take a browse.

Neil Armstrong-Wallace HS History Teacher: “More pleasing to note, is the improvement of a couple of pupils who have shown an improvement in their essay mark, compared to earlier work this term. This includes Student A, Student B, Student C, Student D and especially Student E. Student E has really shown the true merits of using OneNote and UMPC in the classroom. He was previously underachieving, yet with the pilot he really showed what he was capable of. I believe him to be a kinesthetic learner; therefore he needs to be focused on completing a task using his hands. Otherwise his attention wanders. During the pilot he was very focused and really put the largest amount of effort into the OneNote module that I have seen all year to date!!. This means that the OneNote has the potential of helping to improve the work and grades of underachieving males and kinesthetic learners. It may have a larger field in helping pupils with SEN with organisation and producing work."

Are other educators experimenting with OneNote and curriculum? Let us know - share you story!

-mike

Welcome to the new OneNote and Education blog!

Mike_Tholfsen — Mon, 19 May 2008 20:57:00 GMT

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-OneNote) all have their own OneNote blogs, I thought I'd blog about one of the areas I'm very passionate about, which is OneNote and education. I am interested in how OneNote can help enhance the learning environment and I believe OneNote will be a primary tool for 21st century education. We also plan to have other guest bloggers from the OneNote team and from other Microsoft teams post education-related entries here. John Guin is still writing the OneNote Testing blog so even though I'm the test manager, this blog will be about OneNote and education.

Because there are so many things happening right now with OneNote and education, we wanted to start this blog to have a dialog with the education community, as well as share ideas, resources, and gather feedback from teachers, students and faculty. We also hope to point to examples of great things that educators and students are doing today with OneNote and education. In addition to K-12 and Higher Education, you can also expect to see topics on eLearning, Training and on-boarding with OneNote. Many companies, including Microsoft, are delivering eLearning solutions using OneNote.

Some of the types of OneNote-related entries I hope to cover in this blog include:

Teachers
Students
Faculty
Schools
Collaborative learning
Collaborative curriculum development
OneNote education samples
OneNote tips for education
Future directions for OneNote and education
Corporate eLearning, training and on-boarding
Corporate educators
A bunch of other fun stuff

Over the last few years, I've had the opportunity to meet with teachers, students and faculty from around the world, and I've seen some amazing things that people have done with OneNote. I look forward to starting a dialog with everyone and you should expect many future blog entries about OneNote and education.

-mike