I think that the only complaint I would make would be about the over simplicity of the table formatting. So after using OneNote as my planner for 3 terms, what improvements would I suggest or ask for? Not to be ignored is the fact that it saves and updates online instantly! What would I change? I love that I can access OneNote from another device my phone or home computer can jump into action and I can add links to new plans easily. It feels so much easier to do this than writing “see previous week” in my paper planner I feel more on top of my lessons and it takes less time too. The other advantage that I am fond of is being able to easily copy content or in the case of classes that I see once a week being able to quickly flick back a week or forward a week to make notes on where we left off and what we have covered.
Not only will this help me to plan in the future as I remember exactly what worksheet or website I used, but it provides clear evidence for appraisals and allows me to share my thinking and working easily with others. My paper files behind my desk are fairly redundant now as I endeavour to link to all of my paper resources into this planning document. I insert links to PowerPoint presentations and websites, I scan in paper worksheets and resources from textbooks and organise my work in a far more effective manner. The beauty and the principle advantage of this planner over my traditional paper planner is the ability to organise resources. The pages added down the side allow me to flick between weekly plans. I used the tabs along the top to organise my planning into terms I’ve also used this folder for my Unit Plans, however, I think these might migrate into a separate notebook as they develop and grow. An addition I made this year was a daily note and to do list section which has proved very useful with the to-do list function in OneNote. I made a blank timetable and wrote in my daily lessons as well as lunch duties and after school commitments. The first step was to make a table of my lessons. This is a true working document of my teaching and it keeps me in check! Setting Up It keeps track of my teaching whether it’s a 1 sentence reminder of what to cover or a longer and more detailed plan. Lesson to lesson I use it to remind myself what sheets, what PowerPoint and what websites to use. I check this Planner every morning when I get in and at the end of the week I love seeing how it filled up, changed and flowed as the week went on. This planner is not very posh! It isn’t one that I would show as a unit plan, it is always a working and editable document. I use it as a reminder tool, a pin board for links and ideas from the web and as a storage facility for documents and worksheets. The planner is rough it changes many times throughout a day. I was already using a table format in Word to plan my maths lessons and started to see others at school using OneNote in much the same way, I thought that I would try to use it as lugging my planner back and forth from home was cumbersome and I thought that being able to edit, copy and attach work easily would help me to better organise my teaching. I started using OneNote personally before I started trying to integrate it into my teaching.
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I thought I would compile a quick series of posts on each one of these uses.
In lessons as a teaching tool (almost a replacement for ActivInspire).For day-to-day planning (effectively replacing my paper planner).I thought about the main ways in which I use it: I have been speaking to a number of teachers at school about the use of OneNote and I have been meaning to write about how OneNote has merged into my day-to-day teaching.