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I found this one of the most interesting aspects from Hattie's research. I am a teacher in which likes to walk around the classroom and not sit in my chair or desk as much as I can. I've observed in some class's where the teacher has just stood up the front or sat down and I can see the students much more disengaged and trying to get away with sneeky things.

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When completing AT1 this was one of the best papers I found. I am a very reflective person and I always take a minute to look back on my lessons. I ask myself what went well and why and also what can I work on. This allows me to understand what I need to get help from a senior teacher or mentor to improve on.

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What is the SAMR model? A powerful conceptual tool to think about technology integration-and edtech's best uses-is the SAMR model, developed in 2010 by education researcher Ruben Puentedura, who was the 1991 recipient of a Phi Beta Kappa teaching award. Ruben R. Puentedura has an excellent example of how this is used in geography; Substitution,...

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Quizizz is a fantastic tool in which teachers can create a quizz for their students based off content throughout the term. Quizizz has fantastic features such as, creating a quiz from uploading a worksheet, using AI to create a quiz from a YouTube video or a link from a website. This is a fantastic form of formative assessment and game-based learning for students to be engaged in. This can also be student-based learning as they could create their own quizzes for the class to compete in, based on their learning throghout the term.

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Wayground - The world's most engaging learning platform

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Find and create gamified quizzes, lessons, presentations, and flashcards for students, employees, and everyone else. Get started for free!

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This is one of the best resources, as well as Blooket, for formative assessment. You can create an account and run quizzes on all topics! I get students to put their initials as their name and this allows me to sift through the data it spits out at the end. This allows teachers to understand which questions students struggled with and what students did well on.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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This is one of the best resources, as well as Kahoot, for formative assessment. You can create an account and run quizzes on all topics! I get students to put their initials as their name and this allows me to sift through the data it spits out at the end. This allows teachers to understand which questions students struggled with and what students did well on.

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Working as a PTT, I have a grade 10 class which are trailing a BYOD program starting this year. We are using Q-Learn as our basis for accessing content and communicating with students. I have found it a great resource as you can create quizzes each week, you can upload worksheets, powerpoint presentations and many more. You are able to access it from home, so students who may be away are able to catch up on any work they missed. With assessment tasks, students are able to work on them with teachers being able to access and give feedback.

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​QLearn is the department's new digital learning management system for student learning that has replaced The Learning Place.

QLearn is a simple, engaging and reliable learning ecosystem that can support every student and learner at every stage of their learning journey.

The QLearn Learning Ecosystem is comprehensive and includes the following.

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Importantly, QLearn integrates seamlessly with MS Office 365 allowing for the best of both worlds. Students can use MS Office 365 documents, spreadsheets or presentations for Canvas Collaborations.

The following are coming later this year.

Students

QLearn supports students' different learning needs

QLearn integrates with a number of the department's enterprise platforms.

QLearn enables differentiated learning by delivering:

capacity for both synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Being real-time, synchronous learning allows students to engage with class materials and their peers at the same time, giving them a more immersive connected environment. With asynchronous online learning, students have the flexibility to learn in their own time at their own pace

learning pathways within learning material, with progress guided by meeting requirements and achieving prerequisites

Mastery Paths so that teachers can layout different learning pathways within modules related to student capacity and ability. This can help increase student choice and meet learners where they are.

Later in 2023, adaptive learning system Cerego will be included to leverage cognitive science and artificial intelligence (AI)​ which will strengthen knowledge retention and skill development for individual students.

QLearn is preparing students for the future

Later in 2023, students will have access to an eportfolio through Canvas Student ePortfolios. This can be used to collect, curate and showcase the results of learning activities in QLearn, as well as in outside activities. Using an ePortfolio will encourage thoughtful reflection on learning outcomes and experiences.

Students will also have access to Canvas Credentials. This will enable badges to be earned for achieving learning milestones in QLearn and these milestones can be connected in pathways to guide and reward student learning.

Learning is a partnership with parents

Coming later in 2023, parents with a QParents account will have observer access to their child's learning in QLearn, enabling them to:

keep up to date with their child's learning via notifications

plan for a successful year by viewing the course calendar

be more engaged in their child's classroom activities

track their child's learning progress via access to assignment, feedback and grades.

The quality of discussion between the school and home will grow with increased visibility and in doing so, will contribute to each child reaching their potential.

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​QLearn is the department's new digital learning management system for student learning that has replaced The Learning Place. QLearn is a simple, engaging and reliable learning ecosystem that can support every student and learner at every stage of their learning journey. The QLearn Learning Ecosystem is comprehensive and includes the following.

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Pros

Rich with features

Can extract text from images

Generous free version

Plenty of storage

Equation solving

Cons

Can be slow and clunky

So-so sharing options

Web clipper needs improvement

When it comes to choosing the best note-taking app, there are two clear winners: Microsoft OneNote and Evernote. Both are PCMag Editors' Choices, and both have pluses and minuses. OneNote is much better if you want a free app. Evernote has a different structure that makes it easier to organize, tag, find, and share information, as long as you're willing to pay its steep price. While the following review of OneNote isn't a head-to-head comparison with Evernote, it's hard not to match them up in at least in a few respects. Overall, and compared with everything else on the market, OneNote is clearly one of the best note-taking apps. Whether you'll prefer it to Evernote comes down to what you value in an app and how you use it.

How Much Does OneNote Cost?

To use OneNote, you need some kind of Microsoft account, but it doesn't have to be paid. Merely having a free Outlook.com login will do.

OneNote is available to download for free on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. There's also a web app. You can use it for free with almost no feature restrictions. You do get a handful of extra features-such as Sticker and Math-if you have a paid Microsoft account. Free OneNote users get 5GB of space. There's also a free edition for education that includes 1TB online storage.

For everybody else, Microsoft 365 Personal also includes 1TB storage, though you share that space with other apps. Microsoft 365 Personal costs $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year and gives you a lot of benefits beyond OneNote, including the installable Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint applications. You can also get a Family account for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year. The company also recently announced it would once again offer non-subscription purchases of Office applications sometime in 2021, though it's not clear how much OneDrive storage that option would include for syncing OneNote notes.

Price Comparisons

Evernote accounts come in three tiers of service: Basic (free), Premium ($69.99 per year or $7.99 per month), and Business ($12 per person per month). With a free Evernote account, you can only sync between two devices, and you can only upload 60MB of data each month. Evernote Premium adds more storage and features, such as business card scanning and digitizing; OCR on all PDFs, documents, and images; suggestions for content related to the note you're writing; and more.

Quip, which is owned by Salesforce, is another note-taking app that's worth considering if you're in search of something collaborative. It works something like Google Docs in the sense that multiple people can contribute to notes or documents, and everyone's contributions and comments are neatly organized. Quip pricing starts at $30 per month for five people, or $12 per person per month for larger groups.

There are other note-taking apps on the market, many of them free, but none comes close to OneNote or Evernote in features, compatibility, and power. Zoho Notebook (free with unlimited storage) is the only one to keep an eye on. It looks more adept with every update, although it still falls short on collaboration.

Google Keep is free as well but severely limited in what it can do when you compare it to OneNote. Plus, its web clipper is disappointing. If all you need is a place to jot down ideas, it's fine, as is Apple Notes. But you can't effectively organize information and pull it up quickly no matter where you are, the way you can with OneNote. Simplenote is another option if you're only interested in a stripped-down note-taking app.

OneNote's Structure

OneNote shares a family resemblance with other Microsoft Office apps. As mentioned, you can download OneNote for Windows, and macOS, as well as Apple and Android mobile devices. There's also a web app. The advanced features vary a little bit depending on where you're using it. The Windows app is the strongest of the bunch, unsurprisingly.

The basic structure and terminology used in OneNote is Notebook > Section > Page. Pages can also have subpages. In other apps, a Page is usually called a Note, and we use the terms interchangeably here.

Let's say we have a notebook called Recipes. Within it are sections for Sweet, Savory, and Cocktail recipes. Within the Cocktails section, we have pages for Negroni, Gin Fizz, and so forth. We can make subpages under Negroni for Grapefruit Negroni and Sparkling Negroni. So effectively, there are four levels for your categorization and organization needs.

Unlike in other note-taking apps, however, a OneNote page has more in common with a pasteboard than a word processing document. Every piece of content that's added to a page comes in its own field or box. You can resize any box or drag and drop it to change its position on the page. For some types of content, this works well, but it can also lead to messy, ugly pages.

OneNote's Design

OneNote has a familiar three-paneled layout. On the far left, you have a collapsible menu with three options: Notebooks, Search, and Recent Notes. When you click the first choice, a list of notebooks appears, and whichever one you select, its pages appear to the right. (A notebook and its pages are treated as one panel.) It's similar to a standard tree folder structure. When you select a particular page, its contents appear in the main window.

When you first set up OneNote on a new device, you likely won't see all your notebooks by default, because the app only shows recently used notebooks. To open a notebook that you haven't seen in a while, you have to hunt it down on OneDrive and load it back into the app. Finding and selecting them doesn't take long, but loading them can, depending on their size. It can be frustrating and slow down your productivity, depending on how many notes you have and how you need to organize them.

When you choose a notebook, the rest of the window reloads to display the sections and pages within that notebook. All the other notebooks disappear. To see them again, you have to back out and wait for it to reload. If you bounce between notebooks frequently, you'll find that this structure slows you down, too.

If you jump between notebooks frequently, Evernote's structure will be better for your productivity. At all times, you can see all your notebooks or stacks of notebooks (in other words, groups or folders containing several notebooks) in the far left panel. You can also collapse and expand notebook stacks to customize the view and see what you need. So in Evernote, you can view a complete list of all your notebooks at once, whereas that's impossible in OneNote's more hierarchical arrangement.

Features and Performance

Microsoft OneNote's feature list impresses. Many of the features will be familiar to anyone who has used other Office apps. A few features don't work as smoothly as you might hope, however.

The menu bar is a fine place to start. OneNote's ribbon menu bar closely resembles the one in Word Online. They're both loaded with options. You get all the formatting tools you could ever need. You can insert images, links, symbols, tables, and audio files, which you can record, not just upload. You can enlarge, shrink, and crop images that appear in notes. You can also send an image to the background and have text run on top of it. You cannot annotate images in OneNote, though, which you can do in Evernote Premium, though you can add Alt Text and descriptions.

OneNote lets you edit embedded files such as text documents. You can also pull text from an image and paste it right into the note with no special processing-one of the app's strongest features. As long as you have a good image with clear print on it to start with, it works fairly well.

A feature called Digital Ink lets you draw diagrams and images using a stylus on a supported device such as a Surface tablet. If you have a Microsoft business account, you can view upcoming meetings listed in Outlook Calendar while taking notes about them in OneNote.

When it comes to more-routine features, OneNote sometimes misses the mark. For example, you can sort pages alphabetically, by creation date, or by modification date, but not in the mobile app. The app's web clipper doesn't always work smoothly either, and it has fewer options for which sections of a page you want to clip compared with Evernote's web clipper.

If you're unfamiliar with them, web clippers are browser extensions that let you copy content from a webpage into another app, in this case, OneNote. They eliminate the need to cut and paste. OneNote lets you clip just the main content if you want, stripping out the ads and other page elements that aren't important. Another option lets you clip the whole page, while a third allows you to draw a box around a section and save just that screenshot.

OneNote can clip videos, which sounds impressive, but it's very slow. Worse, the clipper has trouble with mundane tasks such as formatting bullet points and numbered lists and preserving line breaks in poems. It doesn't suggest an appropriate notebook where you might save the clip, which Evernote does. While testing the feature, we clipped one recipe page where OneNote simply missed the last two ingredients in the ingredients list (see the image). In other test runs, the final notes had overlapping text, sloppy image placement on the page, and other problems.

OneNote has a few other neat features, such as an Accessibility Checker. It flags potential accessibility problems with notes, such as whether text has low contrast against a background or if images are missing alt text. Funnily enough, most of the accessibility warnings we saw while testing were in reference to default header fonts that OneNote applied to web-clipped pages.

Earlier we mentioned that Math is a feature limited to paying users. Math, sometimes also called Math Assistant, allows you to write mathematical equations by hand and have OneNote convert them to typed text and even solve equations. In this way, you don't need to know how to type superscript, subscript, or mathematical operators. You can write them by hand and let OneNote tidy them into typed equations.

Search, Tags, and Sticky Notes

The search tool in OneNote has improved recently. Formerly, when you looked for a keyword or tag, OneNote only searched notebooks that were downloaded to the device you were using. Now, it searches all your notes, even if they aren't stored locally, and lets you know if it finds a match. It then downloads the notebook and opens the matching note.

Speaking of tags, OneNote has a unique approach to them. In some websites and apps, you turn any word into a tag by adding # in front of it, as is the case on Twitter. In other apps, such as Evernote and email, you create tags first and then apply them to notes (or email messages) as you see fit. The app remembers all the tags you've made and auto-suggests them when you start typing so that you don't create near duplicates (like "tax" and "taxes"). OneNote handles this all differently.

In OneNote, you get a bunch of premade tags to start; a few examples are "definition," "question," "to-do." These tags aren't grand themes for the content. They're more like flags you put on the page to draw attention to something specific. If you want other thematic tags, you make them by putting # before any word on the page, like #marketing or #data. The problem there is you can very easily create near duplicates. It's all very unusual for a note-taking app.

When reading notes, you can create a more focused experience using Reading View. A similar feature, Immersive Reader, hides all the toolbars from view and puts only the note on screen and then reads it aloud, a nice feature for cooking recipes or for people with vision impairment.

Managing and Collaborating With OneNote

How OneNote lets you share and collaborate with others could and should influence how you set up your OneNote account.

The Notebook > Section > Page > Subpage schema is of the utmost importance here. The reason is you can only share at the notebook level. You can share a link to a section or a page, but the person you send it to must have permission to the whole notebook to access it. You can choose whether the access will be edit or view only.

You do have one other option to share only a page and not your whole notebook, but it involves sending the recipients a PDF. So that's not ideal if you want to collaborate with people.

When you share a notebook, you can give people permission to edit notes, in what's sometimes called co-authoring. That way, multiple people can edit a single file simultaneously, in much the same way they can in Google Docs or Microsoft Word. The same ability to only share a whole notebook, rather than any subsection of it, applies to co-authoring; co-authors can see everything in the notebook, even if you just want them to work on a single page.

OneNote Takes Silver

Note-taking app OneNote isn't short on features. It offers a lot for free, and you get a heck of a lot more space with a paid Microsoft 365 account. OneNote is much more advanced than almost all other note-taking apps on the market, except Evernote.

OneNote is reliable, but depending on which features you need, it could be hit or miss. It has some neat tools for students, for example, and the Immersive Reader is pretty great when your hands are full and you want to listen to your notes read aloud. Sharing can get messy, however, and the web clipper could use some work. When you look at the whole landscape of options for note-taking apps, it's clearly in the top ranks. Evernote edges it out slightly for features and functionality, but you really need to pay for Evernote to get the most out of it, whereas the free version of OneNote is more than adequate for many use cases.

OneNote is the only app that comes close to Evernote at this time, and for certain use cases, it's definitely better. Both are PCMag Editors' Choice award-winners for note-taking apps.

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Pros Rich with features Can extract text from images Generous free version Plenty of storage Equation solving Cons Can be slow and clunky So-so sharing options Web clipper needs improvement When it comes to choosing the best note-taking app, there are two clear winners: Microsoft OneNote and Evernote.

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This has got to be one of my favourite games to play with my students. I can create a Jeopardy quiz for revision where they compete to get points, it does get very competitive too!

I also break students up into 5 groups and give them a topic to focus on. I get them to create a set of questions from easier 100-point questions to 500-point higher-order thinking questions. I find this gets them very engaged in the content and they like to show their knowledge off through the questions they write.

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Periodic Table of ELEMENTS!!!!!!!!! Jeopardy Template

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What period is “He” in?, What is the element symbol for “Mercury”, How many protons does “Xe” have?, How many Groups are there in total?

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I was given this little gem from another teacher in my staffroom. It's an interactive PowerPoint with which I run group competitions. It takes a bit of time to write out the questions and answers but it gives us the chance to test students knowledge. I use show-me boards (mini whiteboards) for students to write their answers on then I get them to hold them up.

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We all love a night in watching our favourite quiz show, feeling super clever about every answer we know. But have you ever wondered how you would handle being a quiz show contestant? Well, with our free "Who wants to be a Millionaire" (WWTBAM) game template for PowerPoint you can finally find out!

Full Game experience

We reconstructed the original look and feel of "Who wants to be a millionaire" to make it as realistic as possibly possible. The PowerPoint template is designed to look like the screens in the show and even animates neatly. The cherry on top are the sound effects, which are also original and will get you in that perfectly focused quiz mood. Here you can see the result when you start the presentation (be sure to turn up the volume!):

Free Download

Here you can download the blank PowerPoint template:

How to use the template with SlideLizard

To play the quiz, questions and answers must first be customized. If you want to enable your participants to participate with their smartphones (our recommendation!), then read on here. If you want to use the template without live interaction, you can find here a tutorial to customize it.

Audience participation with smartphone

By downloading our template, you are pretty much ready to go. You can use the template as it is and just let the contestants shout out their answers. But especially when there's more than one participant we recommend playing the game with an interactive polling tool like SlideLizard , where your attendees can vote for the right answer with their phones. SlideLizard is directly integrated in PowerPoint, so it works perfectly with the template.

Important:
The game is meant to be played with your whole audience or a bigger group of people, not just one contestant. This is the reason why the money indicator goes up after every question: there will always be people who get the answer right, just like there will be some who get it wrong. Either way, the game is designed to be played until the end, so participants answer all 14 questions and the game ends at 1.000.000$. Counting the right answers has to be done manually for now. However, soon it will be possible to count the correct answers per attendee automatically, and show an overall ranking at the end.

Customize questions and answers

1. Connect the PowerPoint presentation to SlideLizard. Go to the SlideLizard tab in PowerPoint and click "Link to SlideLizard" in the top left corner.

2. Under Polls and Quizzes, you can create quiz questions. Create as many questions as there are in the template (that is 14). IMPORTANT: Select "Single-Choice Quiz" as the type for each question. You don't have to create all the questions right away, you can edit them later.

Please note that very long questions or answers can break the template, so if possible, keep questions and answers on the shorter side.

3. In order to generate the QR-Code and link on the info slide for your audience to participate, click on "Update" in the SlideLizard-Tab.

4. Click on the box that contains the right answer. Under Shape Fill, select the light green color.

5. Again, go to the next slide (= result slide), set Action: Conduct poll; Poll: pick one of the questions you previously created. On this slide, a chart will be shown to see how many percent of the audience have chosen which answer.

6. Redo the last steps for all other questions. Then you are ready to play!

Play without interaction

1. Go through the slides and type in your questions and answers manually.

2. Click on the box that contains the right answer. Under Shape Fill, select the light green color.

3. Remove the result slides (which shows a chart showing how many percent of the audience choose which answer if you use SlideLizard for allowing the audience to participate)

4. Redo the last steps for all other questions. Then you are ready to play!

Sound Effects

The template comes with cool original sound effects from the show, which every fan will immediately recognize and make you feel like you are a live participant. All effects are configured to start automatically on each slide. However, if don't want them, you can easily remove them entirely or use other sounds which are more to your liking.
Note: There are no jokers in this template.

Deactivate Sound

If you do not want to do the quiz with the music (or if you'd like other music), you can

Simply turn off the speakers/the volume of your computer

Disable the sound effects within PowerPoint. To do so, click on the sound icons on the top left corner of the slides and delete them.

Quiz Question Ideas

If you don't feel like making up your own questions, that's not a problem! In a recent blog post we listed 50 great quiz ideas that you can simply add to our Who wants to be a Millionaire template to make the game even more fun: Creative Quiz Questions Ideas

Pia Lehner-Mittermaier

Pia works in Marketing as a graphic designer and writer at SlideLizard. She uses her vivid imagination and creativity to produce good content.

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Who Wants to be a Millionaire PowerPoint Template

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I've found Padlet a wonderful digital technology which allows for collaboration, creation and collection of articles, technologies and anything of interest. This could be used in a classroom as part of a collaborative assessment task or for students to gather information that is of their interests.

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Classroomscreen is a fantastic resource I like to use when students are completing tasks that do not require us teachers to put anything on the screen. You can add notes, timers, random name generator, poll, traffic light, noise level detector and so much more!

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Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.