OneNote+Resource+Building

=Building a Resource in OneNote=

By creating an entire resource in OneNote and placing it on the school's S drive, you can easily and efficiently ensure your teaching is dynamic by using a variety of media and file formats.

Placing a OneNote notebook, section or page on the S drive means that when students download that OneNote file to work on, they bring with it all the other files, clips and media that you've embedded as part of your resource. There's no fiddling around with lots of different files, videos and images - once they've been embedded into a notebook, they'll move where the notebook goes.

Grabbing a notebook from the S drive
When asking students to drag a notebook from the S drive to their hard drive, ensure that they don't all attempt to do it at once. This bulk activity puts pressure on the network, making it slow. Have students access the S drive in small groups.

Note: if you simply try to work off the notebook that's saved on the S drive, you'll notice your OneNote window will include all the other notebooks that are currently sitting on the S drive. Dragging a single notebook to your desktop is the way to go to avoid confusion.

Simply drag the notebook you want to your desktop.

Creating and Engaging
Remember that any type of file or clip can be embedded into a OneNote page. In the example below, an activity on earthquakes is created below using a combination of a link (including a screen clipping) to an interactive website, a block of text as the general instructions, and a table for the students to record their responses.

Once you have your initial activity, you can add to it. For the example above, we might consider embedding some YouTube videos to show to the students to provide a visual representation of the effect of earthquakes, and add a Word document that serves as a worksheet or assignment sheet. Once you have laid our your unit, it's ready to be saved to the S drive, and all the links, files and images that you've embedded with that resource will be saved too.

Tips for creating a OneNote Resource

 * Choosing insert 'File Printout' instead of 'attach file' is often a better option, because it imports the actual document (word doc, PP, etc) into the OneNote page, instead of just an icon with the file linked to it.


 * Be aware of the size and number of files you're embedding into a page. The more you embed, the bigger the overall notebook will be in terms of file size. This makes saving from the S drive a more time consuming process for your students.


 * Attaching a screen clipping to accompany a link to a website makes your resource more appealing - everyone loves a good picture.


 * Always check links are working right before you present content. The internet is a fickle beast, and sometimes a website will be down for a number of reasons - and usually right when you want to access it in class.