Beginning in 2016, Nossal High School began to focus its professional learning for staff on the use of Microsoft OneNote as complementary teaching and learning software to the MH Blackboard Learn environment we have run for the last 5 years. In this time, the speed and depth of the take up of OneNote and its impact on the teaching and learning experience of staff and students has been dramatic. Not only have our students fully embraced OneNote from a learners' perspective, all teaching and support staff are using Microsoft OneNote to record their own professional development, maintaining an ongoing conversation with the college executive and collecting evidence for their personal records. This rapid adoption has forced us to consider closely what OneNote elements overlap with Bb Learn, which features are complementary with Bb Learn and ultimately, what part these two software solutions will have within our overall teaching and learning program. During the presentation, I will be looking at the features of Bb Learn and OneNote that we intend to keep unique to each environment, as well as the elements that we are comfortable in having some overlap. Our overall aim is to ensure we are promoting to staff the most effective software solution for any given purpose whilst ensuring our students are not confused about the location of resources and information from class to class. I will conclude with what we currently see as the most effective arrangement for the use of these two software packages going forward.

1. Using Blackboard Learn and
Microsoft OneNote
- the overlaps
- the complementary features
- the consequences
Stuart Fankhauser
Director of Digital Development & Innovation
Nossal High School

2. Areas Covered
 Brief InstitutionContext
 Staff Professional Development
 The Introduction of Microsoft OneNote at our Institution
 Staff Performance and Development Process
 Teaching and LearningAdoption
 Changes in the use of Blackboard Learn
 Overlaps
 Complementary Elements
 Possible and Probable Consequences…

3. Nossal
High
School

4. Nossal
High
School

5. Blackboard is
NEO

6. GeekSquad

7. Starter Activity
o Bright and Shiny Surprise Guest
o Learning Styles: A Misguided Attempt to Highlight Individual Differences in
Learners
"The take home message for me after reading this review paper is that the
learning styles approach is a way too simplified conceptualization of human
cognition paired with misguided recommendations. For me this adds to the
reasons not to use them to inform education. Individual differences exist, but their
nature differ from what the learning styles approach puts forward. From the
evidence provided in the review, it is easy to see that tailoring instruction as
suggested by the learning style approach can potentially have negative
consequences for the learner."
o Data Carousels and Data Walls
Feedback
o Up to 10 minutes – a round table of members sharing what has worked for them
best over the last 2 weeks and what could have gone better.
o Do you have a challenge that the group can solve?
Activities
oLicenses, subscriptions and money! Oh My
o What would you recommend to others?
o What can you find?
oTracey Mackin's Digital Technologies Strike Force
oDigital Delivery 2
o Report Back from Year 9 & 10 Data (see below)
o Anything notes/concerns/changes to be made?
Personal Action Planning
o What are you going to try for the first time in the next fortnight and how are you
going to prepare for it?

8. Digital
Delivery
Events

9. Stylus Enabled
Technology
All Staff And
Students

10. Assessment
Practices

11. Assessment
Practices

12. Assessment
Practices

13. The Arrival Of
OneNote
(and friends)

21. Staff
Performance &
Development
Plans

22. Our Change
Management
has Changed
Managing Change
 Software Upgrade Cycles
 Systematic Introduction of
Software Features
 Systematic Introduction of
Software Changes
 Whole School PL Programs
 Staff Learning “Manageable”
Continuous Adoption/Change
 Continuous RollingCycle of
new Features and Updates
 Overnight Unexpected
Changes/Shifts in Direction
 Small GroupTailored PL
Programs
 Coaching Programs/Just In
Time Demonstrations

23. Teacher
OneNote
Adoption

24. Key
OneNote
Education
Features
 Author/History
 Live Content Synchronisation
 RealTime Content
Distribution to Student
Devices
 Homework Collection

25. Key
OneNote
Education
Features
 Author/History
 Live Content Synchronisation
 RealTime Content
Distribution to Student
Devices
 Homework Collection

26. Key
OneNote
Education
Features
 Author/History
 Live Content Synchronisation
 RealTime Content
Distribution to Student
Devices
 Homework Collection

27. Key
OneNote
Education
Features
 Author/History
 Live Content Synchronisation
 RealTime Content/Task
Distribution to Student
Devices
 Homework Collection

28. Student
OneNote
Adoption

29. Complementing
Blackboard
Learn
 OneNote integration with Learn
(Turned on, rarely used)
 Stylus enabling software
 ‘Always on’ progress monitoring (assessment, homework, etc)
 OneNote as a live connection between staff/students
 But…

30. Overlapping
with
Blackboard
Learn
 Groupings within Classes
 Wiki Style Functionality
 Journal
 Content & Content Distribution
 Blogs
 Portfolio
 Discussion
 Test/Surveys (through MS Forms)

31. Features Not
Directly in
OneNote
but….
 OneNote is not effective for information notifications from the
Institution or Classes. Learn remains our Communications Hub.
 OneNote is not particularly useful for coordinatingClubs and
Societies
 Maintaining our institutional/class calendars
 Formal Submission ofWork Process
 No Grade Center
 No Rubrics
 No proper Content Management System
 No SafeAssign or equivalent
 Collaborate Ultra Integration

32. Features In
MS Teams for
Education
(free…)
 OneNote is not effective for information notifications from the
Institution or Classes. Learn remains our Communications Hub.
 OneNote is not particularly useful for coordinatingClubs and
Societies
 Maintaining our institutional/class calendars
 Formal Submission ofWork Process
 No Grade Center
 No Rubrics
 No proper Content Management System
 No SafeAssign or equivalent
 Collaborate Ultra Integration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Kind of
Yes

33. Probable
Consequences
 No competitor to Collaborate Ultra
 Increasingly less dependence on Learn 9.1
 Growth of OneNote, further evaluation of Office365
 Adoption of MSTeams for staff communication/replace internal email
Staff
63%
Students
22%
External
15%
Email Breakdown
Multiple
Recipients
56%
Single
Recipients
44%
All Email

34. Possible
Consequences
 MSTeams adoption for maintaining Student OneNotes centrally
 Transition from BB Learn 9.1 to BB Learn Ultra ASAP
 CMS move from MH BB Learn 9.1 to MSTeams

35. Disruption
For Nossal HS
 Unintentional displacement of existing tech solutions
 Very short time frame
 Forward planning… Huh, what forward planning?
 Can’t put Genie in Back in Bottle 