Many of you already use OneNote a lot for your school work. Here's a way to make OneNote even more useful. If you go to this website then you can download some add ons to your OneNote. This works no problems for windows, but for those of you with Mac computers it might not be possible.
Once you have the add ons downloaded you will see that you have an extra tab on the end of your top bar menu called 'Learning Tools'. Here you can click on 'immersive reader'. With immersive reader you can have your own notes or the material written by your teacher read out loud to you. You can also select 'dictate' and then speak out loud and OneNote with write your spoken words down for you. Give it a try!
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School practice examinations are not that far away. Commercially available study guides can be really useful to help support your study. They have a wealth of practice questions/tasks for you to work through, and they have extra notes and ideas for how to tackle tasks that complement what you have learned in class. Look for them in bookshops.
Still struggling with formatting a bibliography correctly? Here is a link to a style guide that tells you in detail how different resources need to cited. You can also set up an account which will help format a bibliography for you. It's free for 3 days. This could be especially useful for you if you are writing a substantial report for example, a Humanities research assignment or an Extended Essay for IB.
One great way to keep on top of your learning is to regularly do a KWL chart, for each of your subjects. A KWL chart involves asking and answering three key questions about your learning:
If you can regularly ask yourself these questions and answer them, you are:
This simple 15 minute exercise is an effective and efficient homework task. Parents - this is a great one for you to do with your daughter. A KWL template is attached below for your use.
Dyslexie is a font style that is designed to make reading easier for people with dyslexia. For example, letters that are commonly confused are made more distinguishable, there are larger spaces between letters so they do not blur, and capital letters and punctuation are automatically shown in bold to help give a visual structure to a piece of writing. It can be used to write assignments in (the font can be changed at the end to Times New Roman before handing in), and electronic notes from teachers can be converted into this Dyslexie to make them easier to read. A great tip from one of our students that will be useful for many others.
Google Keep is a great app to help students with their learning and organisation. You do need to set up a google account which only takes a few moments, then download the app onto your phone. The app enables you to keep lists, photos, audio recordings and anything else you can think of all in the same place. For example, you could keep a photo of some notes taken on the board, a list of steps you need to take to complete a homework task, and a audio recording of your teacher answering a tricky question you have about an assignment. A particularly great feature is that when you audio record, it writes the spoken words down for you in a note.
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