Teaching and Learning with Microsoft OneNote

Getting Started with OneNote

Your Notebooks run down the left hand panel. The Sections of you notebook are allocated at the top of your page. The Pages of each section run down the right hand side of your page. You are also able to have subpages also.

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Creating Notebooks

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Click the File tab, and then click New. Under Store Notebook On, select My Computer In the Name box, enter a name for your new notebook. In the Location, type or browse Notebooks for your notebook to be saved. 5. Click Create Notebook. OneNote automatically and continuously saves your work while you take notes, whenever you switch to another page or section, and whenever you close sections and notebooks. To save a copy of a section of your notes to a different location, do the following: 1. Click the File tab, and then click Save As. 2. Under Save Current, do one of the following: 3. To save only the current, open page in your notebook, click Page. 4. To save the current, open section in your notebook, click Section. 5. To save the current, open notebook, click Notebook. 6. Under Select Format, click the file format that you want to save as. 7. Click Save As. 8. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the location where you want to save the file. 9. In the File name box, enter a name for your notebook. 10. Click Save.

Saving your work

Obtained from: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote-help/basic-tasks-in-onenote-2010-HA101829998.aspx

Lesson Structure
The topics you cover

Lessons

Your Subjects

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Emailing Lessons
To email missed work to students you are able to highlight one or many pages. 1. Click the File tab then select Send. 2. Send your pages as an attachment so that students are able to open and store them in OneNote. Alternatively, the pages are able to be sent in other ways.

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Tagging
Tags can be used to tag certain words or paragraphs in order to find them at a later stage using the find tags feature.

To tag a section in your notes you must first highlight what you need tagged and then select a desired tag (or you can make a custom tag).

A list of tags that you can choose from or alternatively create your own with customize tags.

To locate all tags in your notes you can select

where a list of your tagged items appear.

The find tags lists all you tags and then highlights exactly where you have tagged the information in your notes.

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Linking Information

Information presented in class can be all accessed from you OneNote Page. Worksheets, Videos, links to the web, diagrams, etc. can all be included in you lesson page. Here is an example:

Information Tables Worksheets Diagrams Videos Links to the web

The Insert tab contains an array of various options which allows you to embed the above options easier.

Screen Clips

Web Links

Files

Recordings

Equations and Symbols

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Examples and Annotations

Examples There are a number of features that can assist students (and teachers) to solve and answer certain problems that are posed in class. For mathematical problems,

OneNote is able calculate equations for you. Just type in your equation such as 75/5= then just hit enter! English or literacy related exercises such as:

The Review tab contains the button which helps contains a dictionary, a thesaurus (in three languages) and a few research sites.

You are also able to translate words to a number of languages using the button.

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Research Projects
Research projects can be broken into different parts in order to make research projects clear on expectations. It can be broken into five subpages: 1. Project overview: overview about the research, a rubric and some videos 2. Research/Investigation: students are able to fill in their own research while OneNote keeps track of the sites visited. 3. Collaboration: students are able to work with others collaborating online at any time of the day (when synchronized). 4. Drafts: Students are able to insert the drafts they are working on 5. Final Product: students are able to store their final draft or teachers are able to keep their students' final submissions on the one page.

A great feature of OneNote is the

feature in the Review tab.

When taking down notes and researching online you simply click on the button page you would like to insert your notes.

and select the

This side panel enables you to take down notes while you browse through documents and the Internet. It keeps track of all the sites you visited as well as documents that you opened and read.

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Onetastic Add-on

The Onetastic for Microsoft OneNote can be added (for free) from the following link: http://www.omeratay.com/onetastic/

For multi-page printing it clears the comment One or more pages when deleting one or more pages.

A calendar that lists all the pages that will be done on the days that have been dated.

Creates a shortcut on your desktop for a chosen page.

Allows you to customise font styles.

Mathematics
The Mathematics tab in Microsoft OneNote ensures that you are able to write equations, solve for x and y and graph your functions (amongst other things).

Write your equations with this function.

Solve for x and y.

Graph your functions using the Graph function. Youre also able to embed your graph in your page.

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Sharing your work

Synchronising your Notebooks can be done either when the notebook is set up or after it has been set up. When setting up:
1. 2. On the File menu, click New. Under Store Notebook On, choose where the new notebook should be stored:

Click Web if you want to be able to use the notebook from any computer or from a Web browser. You will need to sign in or sign up for an account, after which you can control whether your notebook can be accessed only by you or also by other people. Click Network if you want to share the new notebook with other people on the same computer network or on a SharePoint site (for example, at your work or at your school).

The share option allows you to synchronise your work with others.

Existing Notebook:
1. 2. On the File menu, click Share. Under Select Notebook, select an existing notebook that you want to share with other people or between other computers that you will be using. Under Share On, choose where the notebook should be shared

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Click Web if you want to be able to use the notebook from any computer or from a Web browser. Click Network if you want to share the new notebook with other people or computers on the same network or SharePoint site (for example, at your work or at your school).

From: http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/onenote-help/share-notebooks-in-onenote-2010-HA010386952.aspx

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