{"id":218283,"date":"2016-04-20T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=218283"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:47:22","slug":"onenote-class-notebook-as-an-e-portfolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/onenote-class-notebook-as-an-e-portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"OneNote Class Notebook as an e-Portfolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post was written by Edita Rabizaite, <\/em>ESL teacher and ICT coordinator at the Kaunas Kazys Grinius Progymnasium School in Lithuania.<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been working with kids, teachers and parents since 2012 on the concept of portfolio. A few years ago, I chose OneNote<\/a> to create portfolios for my students and teachers. Back then, I was looking for a simple solution for kids and teachers to understand. OneNote, which looked familiar to teachers and students (like a digital notebook) proved to be a great tool for portfolios. It was easy for teachers and students to learn how to use. Many tools used for portfolios were technically hard for teachers to understand and for students to find all their work in one place and not scattered. OneNote helped me to create a class portfolio where all students and teachers in one class were connected in one place. It is hard to imagine it now, but in 2014, I created a folder in my OneDrive with 24 OneNote files for each student in that class, and then made a list in Word Online with students’ names and family names and links to each student\u2019s portfolio, and shared that Word document with teachers who worked in that class and students. The practice of a few years proved that the methodology of a portfolio has a positive impact on students’ learning, creativity and motivation. Students like to compare their work from the last year and see how their knowledge developed this year.<\/p>\n

The OneNote Class Notebook<\/a> tool is simple to use and to create portfolios for students, because it builds off the structure of OneNote automatically with a the push of a few buttons.<\/p>\n

If you would ask me, “What is a OneNote Class Notebook?” I would say that for me it is the digital space that connects students and teachers of one class into a virtual learning community.<\/p>\n

In 2015, I started using OneNote Class Notebooks to create e-Portfolios for 5th<\/sup>-grade students to foster autonomous learning and 21st<\/sup>-century skills. With a teachers\u2019 leadership group, we have tried various scenarios of teaching, which were shared with 35 schools in Lithuania. As one of our aims is to have each student\u2019s learning e-Portfolio for at least four years, it is highly important to organize all materials in it and make them long-lasting, easy to find and to take it from storage anytime a student finishes studying in a school.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go through the main elements of an e-Portfolio and discuss how OneNote Class Notebook as a technological tool helps to implement it. The Collaboration Space area in Class Notebooks serves as storage and a workspace where students of a particular class learn together: share ideas, talk, create, reflect and interact. Each student\u2019s notebook is used to store class work, notes, records and assessments. In the Collaboration Space, students learn and interact with peers and get feedback on their learning, and it serves as workspace for collaboration. The Content Library fulfills the function of storage as all materials that teachers share in that Class Notebook are stored for a period of several years. Students\u2019 notebooks serve as:<\/p>\n