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If you ask me what the three things are I'd like to see in my classroom for this school year, that would surely be Microsoft Teams, Flipgrid and Minecraft Education Edition. And me being a hard-core OneNote teacher I’m so pleased that I can connect all to my OneNote Class notebook.

Microsoft Teams

The first reason why I love Teams is how easy it is to set up your Class Notebook in just three steps.

Create a Team of students

And just set up your notebook

Now, not only do I have my Content Library, Collaboration Space and Student Notebooks in my Class Team

but I also have Team channels.

Penny for your thoughts is a channel for exit tickets. So, at the end of each lesson students would go to this channel and share a thought on the lesson topic.

Cloud of questions is a channel for discussion on anything that they found confusing while learning. And Sticky Words channel is for a game we can play each lesson. Students use sticky words as because, since, owing to, due to the fact to give a reason and explain why things work the way they do. Like for example we blink because eyelids clean, moisturize and protect our eyes from dust and dirt. 

Minecraft Edu Edition

I’m not an expert but just think about having a story board template in OneNote and in each box, you have a sequence of a story told by the students. But not a written sequence, or audio, not even a drawing, but a 3D model of what they have built in Minecraft.

Or a timeline of the events of a book you are reading. You can hand draw a line, mark the dates or starting point and students can embed the events of the story.

Let’s say we’ll start with a desert and a plane for The Little Prince, add a planet with the three volcanos and baobab trees, and a rose, and so on. You get the idea.

Or reimagine a simple describe and draw game with OneNote and Minecraft. It will be describe and build game. Make pairs of students, one is explaining an object from an image and the other is trying to build it in Minecraft. The students describing the objects would have permission rights to a section with images, that the ones building the object will not have. Have a section with a premade template that students can use to embed the built 3D model and the image next to it. You can even vote on the best match.

Now check out how cool an embedder Minecraft world looks in OneNote. This is a World War I Toy Soldier Box by Immersive Minds. 

Flipgrid

Add two additional sections to your Content Library section group. Name them Introduction and Exit Notes. Now you only need to create two grids, one for introducing each lesson theme and another that you will use for quick video exit notes. Just embed the grids in the sections and your work for this school year is done. All you need is add topics to the grids with lesson names.

These are just few ideas that you can hear about in the free six-week course on OneNote. The course is set in a OneNote notebook and is available free for everyone at bit.ly/OneNoteCourse . It starts September 1^st and each week a new section will be added to the notebook.

The course is sponsored by OneNote Central.