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She was able to immediately address student requests for more explanation and context because she was able to sketch and label during class.  She could then distribute these notes after class to her students.   

m a constructivist point of view, all learning implies the transformation of information into knowledge, and this goes for teaching, too, in the modern – i.e. constructivist – sense of the word: Creating an adequate environment for learning.

OneNote is a very strong learning tool that may be completely personalized in accordance with to the users’ needs, not least their learning styles needs.

OneNote supports the auditory strength by allowing users to work with audio files. Whole lectures, group meetings, and also thoughts, ideas, brainwaves, can be recorded and stored for further processing, provided with relevant annotations (the latter as “sticky quotes” created through a mouse click on the OneNote icon in the notification area).

The use of text and all kinds of pictures obviously supports visual learners. OneNote contains many visual elements, and creative users can design their own as well.

Tactile learners benefit from the mere use of a computer and thus of course from the mere use of OneNote. Drawing, making audio or video recordings, scrolling, following links, etc. are important activities for tactile learners and strongly support their focus and their learning process.

Verbal learners often like to talk to themselves, and they may support this preference by using OneNote’s recording tool. Mentally, recording speech is more binding than saying words that just vanish into thin air; consequently, a recording has a much larger learning impact than mere speech that is not recorded.

The smooth interaction with other Microsoft Office applications (first of all, Outlook and Explorer) makes it easy to switch between tasks; furthermore, the program as such with its notebooks, sections, subsections, and many features gives the multitaskers fantastic opportunities to meet their individual needs.

OneNote supports the learners’ preferences whether they want to work alone, in pairs, in a peer groups, or teams, and whether or not they need to consult a person of authority while working and, finally, whether or not they prefer variation between these options,.

Supporting multiple learning styles:

Conversion of hand-writing to text:

Powerful projecting:

Collaborating:

students can gather around and work together on one tablet and (in conjunction with a projector) display their group’s work to the classroom

Users can communicate and share from within their notebooks, and import content from other applications into their notebooks.

Ink annotations:

Note-Taking Capabilities:

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Ease of erasing and making changes:

Expanded note-taking:

Organization:

Microsoft OneNote Capabilities:

Search notes:

Flagging notes:

Record audio:

Side-note screen clippings:

Email notebook pages:

Seeing the sequence of note-taking or diagramming

Write on any document:

PDF files

electronic textbooks

Highlighting on web pages

e-books, educational software, pictures, and scanned images.

Reusing templates:

Emailing documents:

Posting to the web:

Screen-capture software

DyKnow screen sharing

Manipulating electronic presentations and textbooks

Subject Area Examples/Uses

Unique applications

To view a list of useful keyboard shortcuts that make accessing OneNote tools, commands, and dialog boxes faster and easier, click Keyboard Shortcuts on the Help menu.

If copying and pasting text and graphics from a Web page to a page in your notebook doesn't seem to properly retain the formatting, try capturing the information in a screen clipping instead. On the Insert menu, click Screen Clipping, and then drag the pointer to create a rectangular selection around the content on your screen that you want to capture.

To see when a block of notes was last written or updated, right-click the paragraph handle preceding the text in any note container. The last two items on the shortcut menu will show you when the text was created or updated, and by whom.

To move an item, such as a block of text or a picture, so that it appears over or under another item on the page, hold down ALT while moving the item.

You can easily modify the templates that are included with OneNote and create a custom design of your own. Start by applying an existing template to a new, blank page, and then add or change anything you like. On the Format menu, click Templates. In the Templates task pane, click Save current page as a template.

Before sharing your notes, check for spelling mistakes. Press F7 to open the Spelling task pane and start the spell check. If the task pane is already open, click Start Spell Check.

you can save notes as a Web page. On the File menu, click Publish Pages. In the Publish dialog box, click Single File Web Page (Publish a copy) (*.mht) in the Save as type list. After the file has been created, you can send it in e-mail, copy it to a shared location on a network, or publish it on a Web site.

Use different colors to identify participants in a live sharing session. Ask each person to use a specific pen or font color when he or she adds notes to the shared page. For example, you can type your notes in blue text and use a blue pen to mark up a diagram. Another person can use green text or a green pen. Add a list of names and corresponding text colors at the top of the shared note page so that session participants know who is typing or writing.

Use OneNote to help you study for an exam. If you take notes by using an outline format, collapse your outline down to the highest level of information, and then quiz yourself about the details hidden in the collapsed levels. To work with outlines, turn on the Outlining toolbar. On the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Outlining.

To quickly open a side note, even when OneNote isn't open, press the Windows logo key+N.

To help you line up items on your pages (for example, note containers or pictures), OneNote automatically snaps the items to an invisible grid as you move and reposition them. To temporarily disable the grid, hold down ALT while you move an item on the current page. To permanently turn the page grid option on or off, click the Snap To Grid command on the Edit menu.

If you use OneNote on a portable computer or a Tablet PC, you can optimize the amount of battery power that OneNote consumes. On the Tools menu, click Options. In the Options dialog box, click Other, and then select the Optimize for the following battery life option that you want.