BADGE DETAILS
To complete this challenge and earn the Trapper Keeper Badge, you must create a Class Notebook through Schoology and complete a task with your students. You will need to take a screenshot of your students working together within the Notebook you created.
Once you have completed your Trapper Keeper Activity, fill out this MICROSOFT FORM. In the Submission of Evidence portion of the Form, please upload a screenshot of your students working together in a Notebook you created. Once your information has been received and determined to meet the criteria, you will be awarded your badge and points. You can view your badges HERE on our Leaderboard.
Ideas for using Class Notebook with your class can be found below.
WHAT IS CLASS NOTEBOOK?
REASONS AND PURPOSE OF ONENOTE
- Some direct instruction. This will come in the form of brief lectures from you, some videos, and a few PDFs that introduce key concepts.
- Student note-taking from the direct instruction.
- Guided practice and application of the key concepts and skills that were taught in the direct instruction. Some of this work will be individual and some will be done in small groups.
- A cumulative project that will require groups of students to gather research and create a multimedia presentation.
WHAT ARE THE BEST USES FOR ONENOTE IN THE CLASSROOM?
STUDENT CHOICE BOARDS
Student choice is one of the greatest things about OneNote. It lets you give students options for how they choose to learn. One way to do this is using Student Choice Boards or menus.
OneNote’s amazing ability to embed content allows your choice boards to be dynamic: Embed Forms, Video, Sways, and Geogebra to help give your students choice. Add blank templates from Word or PPT that students can work in directly and save to their choice board. You will find examples of student choice boards for learning vocabulary, delivering content, and making assignment choices.
EMBEDDING
The embedding section looks specifically at the content that can be embedded into OneNote. I love the idea of using embedded videos and forms together to create more interactive content. Other apps like Geogebra allow students to practice math directly in the OneNote page. Embed Microsoft Forms alongside apps to check for understanding while students watch video and complete Geogebra Applets.
A FEW OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT ONENOTE
- Organizing materials. OneNote is often compared to a digital notebook. Teachers can organize lesson plans, activities, and supporting materials all in one place. Everything from outlines to audio recordings can be stored, organized, and shared. With OneNote Class Notebook, teachers can interact with students’ individual notebooks, provide collaboration spaces, and share their own content libraries.
- Teachers and students can use OneNote to suit their own organization styles. Content may be organized in a system of sections and pages that works for the user and the material.
- Increasing student engagement. Classrooms must be student centered, and today’s students live in an on-demand, technology-focused world. Students can interact with the materials and with each other, using OneNote to work individually or in groups. Teachers can present to the whole class or share items just with the students who need them.
- The interaction doesn’t end with the presentation. Because the OneNote notebooks are stored online, after the lesson is over students can access them from any internet-connected device for use at school or at home.
- Using the most effective teaching practices and styles. Teachers know what’s best for their students. They know how to differentiate instruction, how to accommodate learning differences, and how to identify each student’s strengths and weaknesses. They know how to meet students where they are. They know how to guide them to where they need to be.
- As technology progresses, the basic tenets of teaching remain the same. OneNote provides a platform for teachers to do what they do best—teach each student the way he or she needs to be taught. A teacher might include multiple intelligences in a single lesson, including infographics, audio, text, and even kinesthetic activities in a OneNote presentation. He or she might use differentiated instruction by changing the content displayed for certain students, giving gifted students access to more advanced materials and boosting those that need more help with targeted activities.
HOW TO CREATE A NOTEBOOK IN SCHOOLOGY
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