I got One Note just when I was in the middle of a professional transition. I was in the process of moving from a school where I was the only music teacher, to a new school in a different district. The teacher who was replacing me had never taught before, so it was very important to me that I left her a very well organised situation. One Note was the perfect tool for organizing my thoughts. I had one notebook for my old school and one notebook for my new school. I added content to each notebook daily as I thought of important information the new music teacher would need or questions concerning my new assignment. Now I regularly use it for long-range planning. I use it as a place to keep any links to music I preview along with comments and ideas.
It would seem that OneNote Classroom is a sort of LMS. My district recently acquired a district-wide licence for Office 360, but I had not seen OneNote Classroom. Through some exploration, I did find out that I do have access to the program through my school account, but given that my school is already involved in using an LMS from another vendor, it seems that in my case OneNote Classroom might be somewhat redundant. I also noticed that in order to be added to the class or group, students must have an email address. In my district, students are not given a district email address until the sixth grade. Even so, I was very pleased to see the Draw feature as it was new to me. It seems that this would be ideal for use with touch screen laptops. I was also excited to see that OneNote is available for IPad. Using OneNote in combination with an iPad or tablet along with an Apple TV and projector would help facilitate an active board environment for my classroom that to date has not been possible. OneNote for IPad
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