The plugin doesn’t work… AT ALL and saving it as a webpage creates one REALLY REALLY LOOOOONG page.

I’ve made entire sections of my curriculum into PDFs and then had them download them… the thing is that I am evolving the class as I go… to suit their needs… and to fit their capabilities. I also want to be able to add to these sections as I progress as a teacher.

The primary issue is that I’m teaching Commercial Art and Graphic Design…. on Macs… the school has Office 2007 on the school PC’s (I was on 2003 on my PC up until I raised a stink about it this week.) But as I said, my kids are on Macs… running MS office… whatever the available version is… but onenote isn’t crossplatform I don’t think, in fact I couldn’t find onenote at all for the mac….. so far I think I have two choices.

Manually copy out all the content… a page at a time… creating tabs in a web platform… OR…. figure a way past the firewall… so my kids can access skydrive.

If microsoft wasn’t so darned proprietary about their stuff this would be MUCH easier… I should have compiled my little notebook in Adobe InDesign… at least there I could print it… I could save it as HTML… and I could make PDFs… I’d even have better font and layout control.

Anyways… if you come up with something by all means shout out.

Thanks.

Adam

Does your school have any sort of intranet? Can you place the notebook in an intranet folder and give students read-only access to that one specific folder so they can grab a copy of the notebook, either section by section or by creating a single file package (File -> Save as -> Notebook -> Single File Package) that will unpack the entire notebook onto the students’ computers?

There is also a plug-in to export your notebook as an interactive website but I’ve never used it.

@Tami Brass That sounds like a lot of notebooks open for a teacher, especially if they are teaching 5 section of 20 or more kids! Do you have any screenshots of what a teacher’s OneNote looks like with all those shared notebooks?

We create skeleton notebooks for the first day, consisting of the usual first day handouts (class expectations, assessment criteria, etc) as well as sections for each of the units that we will be covering for the year. If the teacher is super organized, it might even contain the first few classes worth of material. As teachers need to give resources to their students, they place it on our SharePoint portal, create a link on the class wiki and direct students to the required link. Students then open the file (Word files, .pdf files, or OneNote files) and insert them into their notebook! There is definitely a learning curve for students and new teachers, but we’re getting there!

We share notebooks with our students via our network. In our most common configuration, teachers create a notebook for each unit. Students create a notebook on the server in their portfolio folder, shared with teachers. The teacher puts a copy of the unit notebook in an area accessible to students who then paste a copy of it into the shared notebook, making it a notebook section. Took a bit to work out, but ROCKS!

I used onenote to put together (from multimedia, online sites, tutorials and other materials) a great curriculum…. and I’ve come up on a brick wall.

My class has blocked all SkyDrive sites (public schools block stuff) …. and the one note file (now about 1200 pages) is only viewable outside the school… OR off of my machine which has the current version of Office.

The school isn’t up to speed with Office… I think they are using 2007.

What to do? I’d like to turn the whole thing into a website…. but that would be A TON of free work…. I could turn the whole thing into a pdf… but then I lose my tabs and subtabs…. and sub notebooks.

~A

No present wiimote programs have native vectoral pens, so the Inkseine, inkscape or free versions of commercial IWB programs can give you better writing, but you will see an improvement with the the non JC Lee programs, because, with total props to Johnny, it is the first version, and if there is no improvement on his open source code, there is no need to make a new program with it.

As for your questions:
1) We use the OneNote single file package mostly at the beginning of the year. Ideally this package would include the skeletal framework for the student notebook plus any initial handouts that the teacher would want to give, such as classroom expectations, grading procedures, etc. It could also include any units that have been prepared in advance, particularly if some students are self-motivated. On a day-to-day basis, OneNote pages are saved onto our portal and linked to via class wikis.

2) By ‘texting’ do you mean students starting their own Live Sharing session and chatting back and forth? I don’t think there is a (technological) way around it, to be honest. If students are disengaged, they will find ways to occupy their time. The best solution is to employ some new-age classroom management strategies. Of course, you could also preempt them and have them chat in class as a backchannel!

1) Has anyone been using the “unpack” feature in OneNote for saving files to internal networks (for students to retrieve at the beginning of a class)?

2) Has anyone found a useful way to limit “texting” use of shared files in OneNote?