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One Note is a fantastic tool for use in schools. While I have never used this application before today and already I can think of many ways that I could utilise it in my teaching. I also believe that it is a great tool for teachers to use in order to improve their collaborative planning. In my school we have three of each class group and the teachers often plan together throughout the year. One note would make this much easier and accessible.
One Note could be particularly useful in SET. I am thinking of a particular child that I taught last year with dyslexia who would greatly benefit from the different media forms that can be included by using One Note. Even the simplicity of the highlighting features would ensure that the lesson is much more appealing and accessible to many learners, not only those with dyslexia. I am really looking forward to using One Note in September with my second class students.
<p style=”box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #163c42; font-family: ‘Hind Madurai’, sans-serif;”>Microsoft teams was certainly very useful for remote teaching and staff meetings during lockdown. We did mostly use zoom though as not every staff member had a microsoft account. However, I have seen through this course today that there is stiill a place for teams in our ‘post Covid’ teaching. Teams can be used to deliver lessons, give assignments and also to deliver meaningful feedback to students.</p>
<p style=”box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #163c42; font-family: ‘Hind Madurai’, sans-serif;”>In my school we used microsoft powerpoint to create and deliver online assemblies over the past two years. All of our staff and students have become very familiar with the features of powerpoint now and they are very capable at uploading their videos and photos to powerpoint. I think teams could be another great way to deliver these kind of directives in future. The screen recording feature is however new to me and I can see how it would be very beneficial for delivering lessons and presentations online.</p>The 21st century skill that I have focused on for this module is Collaboration. As many have alluded to already, collaboration is very trendy in today’s classroom, but it does often lead to one or two children taking the lead and leaving the other two or three in the group cruising through. With 6th class I enjoy giving the children a budget and having them plan a holiday for the group. This project allows for many different tasks and areas of research is necessary to successfully complete the project. The children that are stronger with numbers tend to lean towards the budgeting side, where as the children that are visual learners prefer to research activities and places to visit during their holiday.
The children will work together to create a powerpoint showcasing their holiday for the rest of the class to see. When all powerpoints have been seen, we can vote on the best holiday. I believe that this project is a great opportunity to allow for true collaboration to occur and the children can also display great ICT skills throughout the process.
Using ICT and Digital Technology in my classroom really enhances students learning. Last year when the PE team were reviewing our teaching and learning, we decided that we could really benefit by including digital learning into our lessons. We now share the PE homework videos which are available in scoilnet through seesaw weekly. This has given the children a guide for when they are at home. The children are also encouraged to record themselves completing the same activity and send the video back on seesaw. This is an excellent way for teachers to assess the new skill acquired also. During PE lessons, children are invited to bring the IPADs to the hall to watch the demonstration of the new FMS that they are learning. In pairs, they record eachother on the first week trying the new skill. The children give feedback and pointers to eachother to help their partner improve. On the 6th week we bring back the IPADs to the PE lesson and once again we record in pairs and then we can compare the improvement that the children have made.
One Note is a fantastic tool for use in schools. I have never used this application before and already I can think of many ways that I could utilise it in my teaching. I also believe that it is a great tool for teachers to use in order to improve their collaborative planning.
One Note could be particularly useful in SET. I am thinking of a particular child that I taught last year with dyslexia who would greatly benefit from the different media forms that can be included by using One Note. Even the simplicity of the highlighting features would ensure that the lesson is much more appealing and accessible to many learners, not only those with dyslexia. I am really looking forward to using One Note in September with my second class students.
Microsoft teams was certainly very useful for remote teaching and staff meetings during lockdown. However, there is stiill a place for teams in our ‘post Covid’ teaching. Teams can be used to deliver lessons, give assignments and also to deliver meaningful feedback to students.
In my school we used powerpoint to deliver online assemblies over the past two years. All of our staff and students have become very familiar with the features of powerpoint now. The screen recording feature is however new to me and I can see how it would be very beneficial for delivering lessons and presentations online.
The Microsoft quiz app is a fantastic way to do a quick assessment with the whole class or a small group and you have an instant record of the results. This could be used for any subject at all and images etc can be added so that children could have to view and image and then select an answer, or write their own.
Sway is very useful for social stories. Where I would have used PowerPoint in the past to create these kind of social stories I will now use sway in the future. They would be great for introducing a new topic to children to give a very simple introduction.
Microsoft have so many tutorial videos, it’s fantastic and will be a big help to revise any forgotten content. As we are switching to one drive this year, programmes that are more compatible with Microsoft will make things much easier.
