Ms. Robinson has taken group work to a whole new level using the Collaboration Space feature in OneNote. Each group creates a page in the collaboration space to collect and record information being researched. OneNote also makes it easy for the teacher to track the amount of work each member is contributing to the group. In the image below, you can see initials showing which students posted which information. It also allows you to hover over the initials to see when the last edit was made by each student. For this particular project, after the information is collected, students will create a PowerPoint presentation to display the information. That PowerPoint file can be uploaded back onto the OneNote page for the teacher or other group members to edit.
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Our English III team is using the highlighter features in OneNote to help identify musical devices found in literature. First and foremost, instructions need to be VERY clear. In the first section, the content directions are stated. After the content directions are given, it is important to follow up with very specific tech directions as well. While we think students know how to work technology, many of them do not. So don't forget your tech directions. Below you will find the tech directions that were left for the students on their OneNote page. Here is an example of student work using the OneNote highlighting feature. This same feature could be used any all subjects. Students could use the highlighting feature to break down different aspects of text, highlight important parts of an article, or break apart notes.
I first want to brag on our English III team (Mrs. Westberry, Mrs. Hodges, and Mrs. Adamson) were an amazing group of teachers with an abundance of ideas. They were able to accomplish and finish so much in our 1/2 day of technology and curriculum planning. So I want to show off some of the cool things that they have worked on. First, they decided to stick mostly to OneNote and learn to incorporate most of their ideas through OneNote pages. While they may have used some outside website, everything was linked back to OneNote to keep things simple for their students. So here are some of the creative ideas that were worked on: Short Story Unit In the short story unit they were able to create a hyperdoc that walked students through satire. It started with a simple example of satire, then had them apply their understanding of satire to the short story they were reading, and lastly asked the students to create their own example of satire in their everyday lives through a comic. In this unit they also discuss foreshadowing. Using OneNote they attached their short story and a concept map for the students to use and display examples of foreshadowing in their reading. Here is a screenshot of that page. The Crucible The next unit was The Crucible. In this unit, an emphasis was placed on character development. So a couple of pages were made for students to analyze a particular character or to rank the characters by morality. Here are screenshots of those assignments. And who does the crucible without going on a witch hunt?! The team found an online witch hunt through National Geographic. They hyperlinked the URL into their OneNote page. Those were just a few of the activities that were accomplished that day. Excited for students to continue on this journey with our amazing teachers.
Lesson Objective: Completing bell-ringers and homework quizzes to become more acquainted with Spanish
How was technology used in this lesson? Students use One Note to complete bell-ringers and homework quizzes, by answering a few questions she has shared with us. How did technology enhance your lesson? It made it easier to complete and work with giving students the ability to understand it better. What a student had to say: Mrs. Grafton is making this easier on us and helping really understand the Spanish language and being able to learn in a way we are more comfortable with. Taking the teacher out of the center room and allowing students to be in charge of their learning is what OneNote, the Collaboration Space, and a little bravery can do for you! Mrs. Hodges got her students researching, creating, and sharing notes through the collaboration space. Learning Objective: Students will be able to discuss chemical properties, physical properties, and states of matter. Lesson Before: Lecture from PowerPoint using project and Promethean board Lesson Using Student Laptops: Students were placed into 6 groups. Groups 1 and 2 were given Topic 1, 3 and 4 were given Topic 2, and 5 and 6 were given Topic 3. Each group had a given amount of time to research their topic and take notes in the collaboration space. After time was up, they paired up with their corresponding group to compare answers. Any changes that needed to be made could be made now and then a spokesperson was chosen. The spokesperson was in charge of explaining their topic to the rest of the class. Below are examples from the Collaboration Space that were generated in one of her class periods.
One thing that is AMAZING about OneNote is the ability to add your own flare and practicality all into one page. Mrs. Newsom has done just that with her Bellringers page. In each student's notebook is a tab for Bellringers. They are organized weekly. Sunday night, Mrs. Newsom posts her Bellringers for the week. This allows her to save some time during the week with writing up a new Bellringer each morning. Her students also have a very distinct task each day when they walk in. For this particular Bellringer, quotes are shown along the left-hand side and the student responses are placed in the table on the right-hand side. This would also make it easy to review the student work at the end of the week, since all the week's bellringers are organized into 1 page.
Mrs. Maeker is using the Collaboration Space and draw features of OneNote to help her students review their work. Here is what she has to say about the project. I gave them the basic criteria of writing 10 complete advanced sentences using these 7 verbs. I pushed the assignment to them through One Note and they accessed it from there. We then moved into the "Collaboration tab" where I could see each of the students work while they were typing their sentences. As I checked their sentences electronically, every time I found an error, I highlighted the word in yellow. When the student made the change, I had them change the yellow color to green to show me it had been fixed. I loved this as I was able to give immediate feedback. I also had the students highlight the use of the irregular verb conjugations all through their sentences in sky blue to assure that they met part of the criteria. The next step for them after receiving the ok from me on their sentences, is to create a PowerPoint of 10 or more slides with their written sentences on each slide as well as including pictures, clip art etc. to make their PowerPoint creative. They will them present their PowerPoint to the class, telling us about what they did over the summer in the target language with a visual. The kids are really excited about working with me in writing this project as well as teaching me too with the technology end of it! " Examples of student work in the Collaboration Space.
Casey Jeter has taken a different approach to using OneNote, and I think it is BRILLIANT! Going away from using the CLASSROOM NOTEBOOK, Coach Jeter has given all of his students editing rights to a traditional OneNote Notebook. By doing this, it allows each student to be a part of the curriculum development and collaboration is running WILD!
Above are samples of student created pages. One unit focused on learning the major contributors to Psychology. Each student was assigned a person to research and their information was then uploaded to a page within the unit's tab. Those tabs are not there for all students in the class to use. Kaytlin Hodges has made her OneNote notebook even more accessible for her kids through the use of an interactive calendar. On the first page of her IPC and Chemistry notebooks is a calendar, but not just any calendar. Inside of each date box, is a hyperlink to the page that the students will be completing in class. Students know exactly what they are doing when they open their notebook, and can simply click on the link to navigate there. Not only is this helpful to get started quickly in class, it is also much easier for students who are absent to know what work they missed. GREAT JOB MRS. HODGES!
The English I Team has created not only attractive but easy tools to help give direction to students and make navigation of the notebook easy to understand. Using a page at the beginning of each tab for directions allows the students to understand the purpose for each of the tabs in their notebook.
Ideas for Distribution: - Create the page in your teacher notebook and send out to student tabs - Create the page in the View Only tabs or Content Library and let students copy them over to their notebook Walk your students through each tab and go over the purpose for those tabs. Lead by Example! Put your OneNote on the screen and walk through your tabs and verbally give your directions. Taking the time to do so early on, will help organize and keep your students on track. |
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