The simple tools in OneNote make for much better organization all round. And, of course, the minutes are recorded in OneNote for everyone to refer to after the event. This frequently leads to much richer discussions in the meetings. Every meeting has a OneNote page, with the details required for the meeting, and pre-meeting questions already loaded everyone who is contributing is required to not just read the meeting notes ahead of time, but have put down some thoughts and points for further discussion. The one thing I use OneNote heavily for, and more so since introducing the OneNote Staff Notebook, has been the process of pre-meeting discussions and collaborations. However, it was still worth it, for the evidence and ability to keep on top of discussions, innovations and collaborative working in the school. Effectively, you need a separate notebook for every combination of meeting and staffing committee in the organization. The one drawback was the number of separate notebooks I needed. Using OneNote to coordinate and collaborate effectively from the admin side of things was obvious from the moment I started using OneNote. I have written before on how we are using the OneNote Class Notebook to create digital exercise books, but there is another member of the OneNote stable that is revolutionizing the admin of schools-the OneNote Staff Notebook. But this is merely replacement if a teacher from the Victorian age were to come forward in time to view a normal school, they would recognize an amazing amount of the day-to-day work of a modern teacher. The chalkboard was replaced by the whiteboard, which in turn was replaced by the interactive whiteboard. For a number of years, schools have used technology to replace old ways of doing things.
OneNote has truly revolutionized the way schools can use technology to enhance and transform their processes.
Today’s post on OneNote was written by Andrew Howard, principal of the Sandymoor School in the UK.
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