Microsoft OneNote and Remote Learning

I have just spent the week in a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration class which was delivered remotely. I sat at home and took the course, labs and all. It worked quite well and my brain if full. One if the things that I did was to use Microsoft OneNote (the one program Microsoft got right) to take notes. I used it to capture slides and add my notes to a notebook. At the end of the class, I converted the notebook to PDF and posted it on our SharePoint 2010 support site on the corporate intranet.

I used a dual monitor set up so I could keep the presentation up and still take notes on OneNote. I put the screen capture look into the quick access toolbar so that I could quickly capture the slide information and relied on the auto-save feature to keep me from having to worry about saving my notes. I added a page for each lesson and it came out great. Now, with very little effort, I have notes which I can share with team mates from the class.