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Dig into this Microsoft OneNote fundamentals course, guaranteed to prepare you for best uses of standalone OneNote use with embedded content, in support of evidence-based instructional strategies, and organizational tips you will find useful.
Dig into this Microsoft OneNote fundamentals course, guaranteed to prepare you for best uses of standalone OneNote use with embedded content, in support of evidence-based instructional strategies, and organizational tips you will find useful.
Session Outline & Resources
Session Outline & Resources
A Quick Survey
A Quick Survey
Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies
Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies
Generative Note-Taking
Concept Mapping
Outlining and Summarizing
The Basics
The Basics
Exploring OneNote
OneNote Activities
Reflect:
Reflect:
How does note-taking, outlining and summarizing help you learn something new? How do you take notes?
How does note-taking, outlining and summarizing help you learn something new? How do you take notes?
Listen and Share
Listen and Share
Chat with a neighbor and find out what their reflection is. Compare their reflection to yours.
Chat with a neighbor and find out what their reflection is. Compare their reflection to yours.
1- A Quick Survey
1- A Quick Survey
You have a lot of note-taking tools available for your use. Here are a few:
You have a lot of note-taking tools available for your use. Here are a few:
Questions To Ask Yourself When Going Digital:
Questions To Ask Yourself When Going Digital:
- What kind of notes am I writing? Grocery lists? Checklists? Outlining a reading selection of academic text?
- How likely is your brain to remember what you've taken notes on or outlined?
- Does what you're using match how you learned to take notes and outline?
Notebook Organization Skills
Notebook Organization Skills
“When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes…students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective — because you can’t write as fast as you can type..that extra processing…benefited them.”
“When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes…students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective — because you can’t write as fast as you can type..that extra processing…benefited them.”
(Source: Pam Mueller on The Pen is Mightier Than the Keyboard as cited in NPR’s Attention Students – Put Your Laptops Away)
Old-fashioned, handwritten notes make our brains work harder and smarter. Set aside the digital for later. Here are a few note-taking approaches that you may be aware of. Explore further on your own.
Old-fashioned, handwritten notes make our brains work harder and smarter. Set aside the digital for later. Here are a few note-taking approaches that you may be aware of. Explore further on your own.
Autofocus: A simple approach to note-taking that makes everything into lists, where you deal with one page at a time.
Bullet journal: A flexible approach that has you creating index pages, future logs, monthly logs, and more. Watch the video.
Cornell Note-taking: Take quick notes about a book, lecture, meeting. Then write questions about your notes. Write a brief summary at the bottom of the each page of notes. This involves dividing the page into three components. Find out more online.
SketchNoting: Draw pictures of concepts and ideas. Watch video (or combine Cornell with SketchNoting).
Strikethru: This approach involves creating a notebook with several sections, including live list, the dump, and the vault. Watch the video.
2- Evidence-Based Strategies
2- Evidence-Based Strategies
“The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies had to be more selective. You can’t write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them.” (source)
“The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies had to be more selective. You can’t write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them.” (source)
You may be familiar with a Surface Learning, evidence-based instructional strategy. This strategy is notetaking and enjoys an effect size of 0.51. Remember that standard growth has an effect size of .40, so anything greater than .40 is beneficial.
Learning how to take notes yields the following benefits:
Learning how to take notes yields the following benefits:
Increased engagement
More generative learning
Greater self-efficacy
To take full advantage of notetaking, students have to learn the skills involved in taking good notes. This means that note-takers engage in an active process to work through material. Also important is making connections or relating it to their existing knowledge (source).
An Active Notetaking Process: 3 Steps
An Active Notetaking Process: 3 Steps
You may ask, “What does an active process of notetaking entail?” It is not transcribing verbatim. In other words, just having students copy notes that the teacher created is not effective.
Instead, students must paraphrase and summarize what they are learning, whether it is from the teacher, a resources like a textbook or website, or each other. These processes stimulate “deeper semantic processing,” and result in generative notetaking.
- Generative notetaking pertains to “summarizing, paraphrasing, concept mapping.”
As students take notes, it’s important that they put what they see and hear in their own words. That is, paraphrase and summarize concepts. This means a three-step approach may be useful when considering digital notetaking.
OneNote Features
OneNote Features
Add annotations to any YouTube video
Add colors, lists, bold, and other styles
Take screenshots of the video and draw on it
Your notes get saved to the cloud, so no need to worry if they disappear.
Digital Notetaking: A Three-Step Process
Digital Notetaking: A Three-Step Process
When employing digital notetaking tools, you want to discourage verbatim transcription of information. Instead, encourage students to do the following:
Step 1: Take notes with paper and pencil.
Step 1: Take notes with paper and pencil.
The benefit of watching a video on the computer and taking notes by hand can stimulate learning as the deeper semantic processing gets the long-term retention results.
Step 2: Type up notes using OneNote.
Step 2: Type up notes using OneNote.
Once you have jotted notes down on paper, review them. Type them up in OneNote as you watch the video a second time. Again, the goal is to revisit your notes over time to take advantage of spaced vs massed practice effect.
Step 3: Create a quiz on what you viewed.
Step 3: Create a quiz on what you viewed.
Take advantage of the practice testing (a.k.a. retrieval practice) strategy. Create a quiz using one of the many tools available, such as Blooket, Vimboard, Podsie, or Knowt.
For example, with Knowt, you can copy-and-paste your OneNote notes into it. Knowt will then create a quiz for you or your students.
Two Other Strategies You Can Use
Two Other Strategies You Can Use
There are two additional strategies you can leverage when encouraging students to engage in the use of OneNote. Those include Outlining and Summarizing (d=0.66), as well as Spaced vs Mass Practice (d=0.65).
a) Outlining and Summarizing (d=0.71)
a) Outlining and Summarizing (d=0.71)
Definition: Identifying the main ideas and rendering them in one’s own words. The core skill is being able to distinguish between main ideas and supporting ideas. Or, main ideas and examples. Combine outlining with Summarization, a surface learning strategy that promotes deeper semantic processing. That is, semantic processing occurs when you encode the meaning of a word, then relate it to words with a similar meaning.
Definition: Identifying the main ideas and rendering them in one’s own words. The core skill is being able to distinguish between main ideas and supporting ideas. Or, main ideas and examples. Combine outlining with Summarization, a surface learning strategy that promotes deeper semantic processing. That is, semantic processing occurs when you encode the meaning of a word, then relate it to words with a similar meaning.
Tips for This Strategy
Tips for This Strategy
- Scan the reading selection
- Identify Main Ideas and Support Ideas, listing key vocabulary words
- Re-read first and last paragraph of the reading selection
- Set the main idea of the reading selection as Roman numeral one
- Add sub-topics or big ideas, then
- Repeat process until complete
- Develop a summary in your own words, adapted from your outline
b) Spaced vs Mass Practice (d=0.65)
b) Spaced vs Mass Practice (d=0.65)
Definition: Students are better able to commit information to memory. This happens when they study that information in spaced (or distributed) intervals. Studying “massed” interval(s) does not work as well as spaced.
Definition: Students are better able to commit information to memory. This happens when they study that information in spaced (or distributed) intervals. Studying “massed” interval(s) does not work as well as spaced.
Example: Spaced vs Massed Practice + Retrieval or Practice Testing
Example: Spaced vs Massed Practice + Retrieval or Practice Testing
Spaced vs Massed Practice has us space out over time the intervals when we study information. This ensures that significant learning occurs. Combined with retrieval practice, you can make long-term memory connections for new information. Flashcards, practice problems, and writing prompts can improve learning. Learn more here.
Guided Notes
Guided Notes
When using guided notes with stuents, the teacher will give them an outline of material in a presentation or resource. However, the outline has space left for students to fill in missing concepts and/or vocabulary. Research shows that this practice can increase student achievement across all grade levels, including students with disabilities (Haydon, Mancil, Kroeger, McLeskey, & Lin, 2011 as cited in source). See A Quick Guide to Guided Notes Creation.
When using guided notes with stuents, the teacher will give them an outline of material in a presentation or resource. However, the outline has space left for students to fill in missing concepts and/or vocabulary. Research shows that this practice can increase student achievement across all grade levels, including students with disabilities (Haydon, Mancil, Kroeger, McLeskey, & Lin, 2011 as cited in source). See A Quick Guide to Guided Notes Creation.
3- The Basics of OneNote
3- The Basics of OneNote
Adding and formatting Notebook Content
Adding and formatting Notebook Content
Applying formatting to Notebook Content
Inserting Images and Audio into a Notebook
Adding Quick Notes and Links
Using Drawing Tools
Embedding and Attaching Files
Embedding Excel Spreadsheets and Tables
Attaching Other File Types
Configuring Password Protection and Notebook Properties
Inserting Page Templates
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You can easily open another window in OneNote using the "Ctrl-M" key combination on your Windows device. In this way, you can refer to one page in OneNote while working on another.
You can easily open another window in OneNote using the "Ctrl-M" key combination on your Windows device. In this way, you can refer to one page in OneNote while working on another.
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Resources
TCEA TechNotes Blog & Others
TCEA TechNotes Blog & Others
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Great @Teachercast Podcast
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