ONENOTE Benefits

 OneNote is just a click away on any device. It is academic software that can be used in schools, classroom and I encourage all schools to use this software for note taking and cataloging work for future uses.

 OneNote is a digital app for recording audio notes, keeping notes and filing important files all in one place. There are many advantages of using this software from the beginning for note taking.

I will list the benefits of using this software as an educator using the app as a teaching tool. 

 

Teaching tool 

1. Organizing

Organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook. 

• Your notes save automatically, and it can be access anywhere on any device.
• It is a great place for anyone to take notes and you can organize notes by Sections and pages in a way that suits you and makes sense to you. 
• It gets away from paper clutter.

 

2. Accessing, collaborating, and sharing content

• With OneNote for teaching, you can help your students long after class is over. They can assess the notes and review them for deeper understanding. 
• As a teacher, you can easily share with students and it allows them to contribute in real time.
• Giving feedback and providing peer collaboration is a plus. 
• It can be used any time and from year to year. Therefore, you work hard ones and reused the notes for future use. 

3. Presenting content

I personally like that you can use pictures to get across your point of teaching. I teach in the Infants Department and at this level children need lot of pictures for visual stimulation in their learning process.

• OneNote allows you to easily add text, images, audio, video, and digital ink to any page. 
• OneNote also uses an infinite canvas that lets you expand, at will, to add more notes as you need. Try that with a physical piece of paper. (OneNote website)
• When presenting live, you can pinch and zoom to enlarge areas of the screen you want the audience to pay attention to.  This is a feature that is especially usual for online learning platforms to keep the students focused on where you are at that present point in time.

4. Allowing flexible teaching styles

• There are many things to manage in the classroom and OneNote lets the teacher decide upon the best pedagogy to use for a given situation. 
• OneNote allows for easy review of older material and provides multiple methods for formative feedback in the moment that it is most effective.
• Adding new content is just as easy and a teacher can individualize instruction based upon any student’s needs and interests. 
• Flipped-classroom type resources can be organized by scope and sequence to meet individual needs and can be verified with checks for understanding by using Microsoft Forms.

5. Searching and tagging

With OneNote your notes are searchable. You can also tag your notes with ready-made tags or create custom tags of your own to easily find specific notes. 

6. Holding the “Super Notebook of Notebooks”

With OneNote Class Notebook, all your students’ notebooks are just a click away.

7. Empowering you to teach the world

With OneNote in the classroom, you are in control!  

There are many tools and things you can do within this app; scribble and doodle with digital ink, keep private notebooks, share a notebook with the world, record an audio comment for one of your students,  handwrite a complicated mathematical equation, compose music and or sketch your latest invention with digital ink.

It also allows you to embed various things like an online video for a flipped learning lesson, set up an auto-graded quiz as a check for understanding, multimedia content like YouTube videos, your voice notes can read back to your students using the new OneNote Learning Tools.

Below is a voice recording of myself using the OneNote software.

 Using OneNote (Dionne)

 

This information was found online on Microsoft Benefits.