Reflection 3 – Presentation Tools

 

OneNote

            Within our future classrooms, we as teachers, will have students with different learners; whether they are visual, audio or kinaesthetic learners, or a mixture of two or all. Therefore, it is essential that we try to cater for all our different learners. Audio learners prefer to listen to information, kinaesthetic learners like to take a hands on approach and visual leaners like to look at information. Thus, to accommodate for all learners but in particular the visual learners, teachers must be able to use a variety of different technology to present information. The presentation tool that I decided to explore this week was OneNote.

 

          OneNote is a Microsoft program that allows the users to incorporate a variety of different technical tools into one digital platform. OneNote can be downloaded across multiple different devices such as a computer, tablet, iPad, mobile phones etc.. OneNote is like a digital notebook. OneNote allows the use to customise their workbook, pages and sections with multiple different settings such as, themes, heading, changing text font, colour and size, as well as the freedom to move text anywhere within the page. Also, users can embed videos and images into their workbook whether they are online or on their own desktop. Furthermore, OneNote allows students to record audio and embed it within their workbook. Not only can users use text, but they can also draw/sketch to create things such as mind maps.

           

            OneNote is also an easy tool to use, as it allows users to organise pages into sections and create workbooks to organise sections. As well as a search bar for users to find their notes easily. Moreover, OneNote allows users to work collaboratively with other user by sharing their workbook with other people, and they can then edit the workbook on their own device. However, the user does not have to share their original workbook they can share a copy for others to edit. Moreover, users can edit the same workbook across multiple different device and the workbook is updated across all devices. For example, a teacher could create a workbook for a Year 10 history class about the Holocaust and share a copy with their students to edit, answer questions and engage with learning activities.

 

 

            For more information about the abilities of OneNote visit:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-what-is-onenote-be6cc6cc-3ca7-4f46-8876-5000f013c563

            To put using OneNote as a presenter into context I will use the SAMR model and a Year 10 history class learning about the Holocaust. I will identify how OneNote can be used at every level of the SAMR model:

At the Substitution level teachers can use OneNote to create a mind map about the Holocaust rather than writing on the board.

At the Augmentation level teachers can share a OneNote page with students and during the lesson students can use their digital device to collaboratively add to the mind map about the Holocaust that is displayed on the board, and with OneNote the students’ additions will automatically be added to the teachers page and displayed on the board.

At the Modification level the teacher can email students a plan for the lesson about the Holocaust that they can access on their own digital device and progress through the learning activities during the lesson. Within the OneNote document the teacher can include questions, research tasks, readings, videos, virtual tours, and websites ect.

At the Redefinition level teachers can ask students to create a research task on a OneNote document that includes images, videos, text, hyperlinks ect., and use the audio record function to present their work. Once completed students can share their workbook with their fellow peers.

            As with all digital technology and the software associated with it teacher sand students need to ensure they are abiding by all legal, safe and ethical considerations. A the start of the lesson the teacher needs to remind students of the expectations, such as, not including any person information within their online workbooks (last name, school name, address) and ensuring students reference all work that is not their own. Moreover, when sharing their workbooks, the teacher should check all email addresses that the student is haring their work to.