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2. Try sample notebooks: Check out these Onenote notebooks to get some ideas of how to use OneNote in school and in your personal life.
   • Student personal workbook: Sample personal notebook for a student.
   • Teacher math workbook: Example of how teachers can store their workbook information for math classes in OneNote.
   • Student school workbook: Sample notebook for a university student.
   • Shared notebook for a group project: Example notebook to manage shared project information.
   • 3rd grade teacher's mathbook: Sample of a teacher’s workbook for a 3rd grade math class.
   • Student's semester notebook: Example notebook of how a student could organize their work and activities.
   • Digital portfolio: Sample digital portfolio of a teacher that contains multiple sets of student work, stored and organized within OneNote. Includes homework, quizzes, tests and projects.
   • New employee handbook: Example of a new employee handbook for a company. This could easily be tailored for new students or new teachers.
   
   
   
3. Learn from people using OneNote: Watch how teachers and students are using OneNote in the classroom.

   Students and teachers using OneNote at Forest Ridge
   Students and teachers have been using OneNote to keep organized, work together, and improve the ways they can succeed in class.

   
   
   
   After learning how OneNote has helped teachers at Forest Ridge School, watch a video of four teachers demonstrating how they used OneNote in the class and for faculty projects.
   
   

Collaboration using OneNote 2007
Learn how you can use share notebooks in OneNote to work together on projects with other teachers and students.




4. Use OneNote to match different learning styles: Watch a video and read about Dr. Ole Lauridsen's presentation on OneNote and Learning Styles. The information focuses on how OneNote can addresses multiple types of learners from Dunn & Dunn's Learning Styles model.

   • Watch video
   • Read the brochure (.pdf, 425 KB)
   
   
   

5. Watch how-to videos for teachers: These how-to videos were created specifically for teachers. Note These videos require Windows Media Player.

   • Explore the OneNote user interface
   • Use the OneNote toolbars
   • Create a notebook
   • Notes page basics
   • Take notes in OneNote
   • Search your notes
   • Take screen clippings
   • Use side notes
   • Work with OneNote and Microsoft Office Outlook
   • Schedule Outlook appointments and meetings
   • Create Outlook Tasks and Contacts
   • Add note tags
   • Work with page templates
   • Share your notebooks
   • Live sharing sessions
   • Work with printouts
   • Organize notes
   • Insert hyperlinks
   • Insert pictures
   • Create tables
   • Use drawing tools
   • Use the Calculator
   • Format text
   • Working with Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office PowerPoint
   • Record audio and video notes
   • Protect your notes
   • Publish your notes as PDF and XPS
   • Print your notebooks
   • OneNote resources