Will OneNote Do This For Me

[MarieCarmen]

I am a teacher. I make notes on a seating chart during conferences. My
seating chart is typed on a sheet of labels. Each child has a label. At the
end of the week when I have conferenced with every student, I peel off the
label for each child and place it on their individual conference sheets. We
are required to keep conference notes on each child.

What I envision is a seating chart on a PC Tablet. When I tap on the
students box, it opens up to a new page where I can write the conference
notes for the day. When I tap out, I return to the seating chart. Now the
seating chart reflects in some way that I have made notes on that student. A
date would be nice!

Can One Note do this for me?

I have the trial version 2003 Student/Teacher version.

Thanks.

 

[me]

Not sure what you mean here when you say conference. I'm in the UK, I suspect
you're in the USA? Conferences here mean a load of people go to a venue to
hear lots of people talk about a topic!

Ignoring that point... my view is 2003 won't do this, but 2007 comes close
as it has hyperlinks. In 2007 you could have a homepage with the seating
chart on it, hyperlinks going off each seat to a page per pupil and take it
from there. I suggest you buy the beta for $1.50 and download the B2TR (tech
refresh).

 

[Chris Roth [MVP]]

Hi Marie,

You can create hyperlinks in OneNote, but they're less than elegant. You
have a big ugly path like:

<file://C:\Documents and Settings\Chris\My Documents\My Notebook\Side
Notes.one>



I can't see a way to hide it behind nice text, like a normal hyperlink. And
you don't seem to be able to link to specific pages within sections, but
that might be okay.



You can add groovy check marks (note flags) to each item, which is handy for
you, because you need to make sure you've dealt with each child for your
various duties.



You can also drag and drop pictures inside of each Note block. It's kind of
neat how you can have check boxes, text, links, and pictures all in one



According to a OneNote MVP, "hyperlinks are high on the wish-list" for the
next version of OneNote, so that feature might become more elegant and
powerful very soon...I don't know the inside scoop, though.


--
Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

More Visio shapes, articles, development info and pure diagramming fun at:
www.wanderkind.com/visio

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hyperlinks (and not the big-ugly ones, but nice ones) were added in
OneNote 2007. I suggest you download it from the Office Preview Site for
$1.50 and download the patch for it called B2TR for free.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Jonathan]

Marie,
I have been using OneNote (on a tablet) in my fifth grade general ed
classroom and always look for new ways to put it to use. Your idea of a
top-level graphic "start page" is a nice touch, making it sound like you have
to work with many rooms so there would be many OneNote pages in back of these
start platforms.
I have been using the beta and although you may want to wait for the
official blessing final release will bring, I, too, think you will like the
way ON2007 will make these tasks easier. Think and test the ability to keep
the sound with each set of notes you make in conference. ON makes "bookmarks"
in sound data when you type (or scribble?... don't know that inking creates
these marks, actually) so you can go right too the spot in the audio where
your reaction/note was captured.
I plan to use this feature when I do running records so I have the
documentation and more experienced examiners can help me evaluate
less-obvious issues.

Generally you are asking if you can navigate a lot of data quickly in the
graphic interface used by OneNote and I think the answer is yes and I believe
the effort to get to know the program will be absolutely worth it, especially
if you have a tablet. Even if you modify the metaphor slightly in the start
image the notebooks and section tabs open quickly. For other ideas, check out
a blog entitled "Teaching with Gadgets" on blogspot by a fourth grade
Canadian teacher named BTS. Although his contributions have slowed down the
whole site is filled with OneNote suggestions from day-to-day management of a
classroom.
Look into "PDF Annotator" from a German company. It surpasses the markup
capability offered by Adobe.
But, back to your original question: yes, ON can keep data organized in a
speedy graphi interface. I have used InfoSelect which has faster text search
and an outline metaphor with good quick-thought capture but the interface
alolows data to get lost in the clutter, so you DEPEND on the hammer of raw
search. ON more elegantly keeps you organized.
One caveat: users are reporting that the ON files are large, even without
audio. Audio, it now seems, is stored inside ON files and will increase that
size a lot. This may argue for a tablet with a lot of RAM to ease the capture
session and fast-access HD space to use the resulting files in a snappy
fashion.
Excuse the typos... good luck and come back to share with us the way you
finally implemented this! I also recommend this forum for ideas and advice.

Jonathan Rawle