OneNote and Education information available

Good news:  Mike Tholfsen has started a "OneNote in the Education World" blog at https://blogs.msdn.com/onenote_and_education/.  This is good news on several levels.

First, it gives a different view on how to use OneNote to help schools, teachers and students now, as opposed to the line of thought that says "Here's what we're planning for five years from now."  Mike also plans to cover OneNote used outside of traditional brick and mortar academia: corporate training, adult education, etc...

Second, I've heard from several readers of my blog here that the test team should not focus only on education scenarios.  We cannot afford to (and certainly do not) have that narrow a focus in the test organization, and Mike's new work should help draw the line between the testing and the education efforts.

Lastly, meeting teachers and students is always fun and informative, and I hope I get invited to some of the meetings.  Just so long as they don't server cafeteria food...

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms can be sent to Mike here: https://blogs.msdn.com/onenote_and_education/

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2008
  I submitted the following on the education blog but was referred to this blog as owner of the OneNote calculator: I am concerned that, in an educational context, the The OneNote calculator, though far easier to use than most, can give the wrong answer e.g. 2/22=0.5 rather than 2/22=2. The inexperienced user (under pressure) may not notice such unexpected very basic computational errors and, as a direct consequence, might just fail exams, etc.! I first reported this bug via support back in early Feb. and later in Feedback expecting some priority but nothing at all seems to have happened? Should a warning be issued to users if no remedial action is imminent?

• Anonymous
  May 29, 2008
  Thanks for the feedback, Ira.  We're looking into this for future work.   John