OneNote Review

While I am admittedly becoming a Google girl, there were a few intriguing aspects about OneNote that I could apply to my organizational practices in teaching. OneNote is a cloud-based note-taking program which is designed to organize meeting notes, lesson plans, and any other documents.  It is accessible by any device which could be helpful for teachers who plan at both school and home.

The feature that I found most interesting was the ability to take screenshots while lesson planning. As I do not have a set of student curriculum books, I often draw information for lesson and unit planning from sources I find online. It can sometimes be tedious copying information, keeping track of websites, and once the website is listed, remembering which website contains which information. The result is having to go back through my research to find what I want. Using OneNote, however, I was able to take a screenshot of a website and save it for later reference.

The other feature I found to be helpful is the 'to do list' feature. I am constantly jotting notes or lists down in many different places (paper, my computer, my iPad, etc). It is never all in one place. With OneNote, I can save it on one device and access it on another.

Overall, I think this program is interesting, and I can definitely see how it could help me (or any other teacher) stay organized in my professional life!