This seems to me, to be a really nice fit. I have just read an article about 
Organized Home.com and how it has MANY free printable forms for household activities. When you take this and the abilities of OneNote 2007.
I plan on looking into this further!
So the news has hit the feeds… Dell is making the move to the Tablet PC layer of the “computer atmosphere”.
jkOnTheRun has had the information on their site:
More information surfaces from Dell on Tablet PC rumors
Quite a few people have been hoping that PC maker Dell would come out with a Tablet PC. Not only would a Dell Tablet PC help validate the platform it would also make it easier for companies who use Dell computers exclusively to make Tablet PCs available for those employees who prefer them. There have been rumors of a Dell Tablet PC for months and I recently received some additional information that sounds very credible. A jkOnTheRun reader who wishes to remain anonymous recently discussed the Dell Tablet with two Dell representatives at two different public events and this is what he was told by Dell:
Dell will release a Tablet PC in the September/ October 2007 time frame
The Tablet PC will be based on the Latitude D420 notebook computer and will be a convertible Tablet.
It will be compatible with all Latitude D series accessories such as docking stations, power adapters, etc.
This Tablet PC will be the last system released in the popular Latitude D series.
The Dell Tablet PC will have an active digitizer only.
Wireless Broadband will be an option
Widescreen display
Even Engadget has had the news “covered”:
Dell Tablet PC coming this Fall?
Posted Apr 22nd 2007 12:07PM by Peter Rojas
Filed under: Tablet PCs
We’ve been hearing rumors about a possible Dell Tablet PC pretty much since the day the first Tablet PCs went on sale, is it finally going to happen now? None of this is officially confirmed or anything, but jkOnTheRun (which has tons of cred when it comes to this stuff) reports that Dell is probably going to roll out a Tablet PC sometime around September or October of this year and that it will most likely be a convertible-style Tablet based on the Latitude D420 and come with a widescreen display and optional WWAN.
Mobility Site has a nice write-up about it…
Has anybody brought up the fact that Dell now appears as a “Sponsored Link” when you do a google search for “Tablet PC”.
I found this site, through an RSS feed. This looks very interesting and when you think of it’s uses in the educational “realm”, it is very intriguing.
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I was reading a post by Marc Orchant in regards to a specific feature set in OneNote 2007 & Outlook 2007. It is really a nice feature that I haven’t used yet, but plan to in the future!
How to: Link Outlook and OneNote by ZDNet’s Marc Orchant — Eddie VanDerbeck at GottaBeMobile.com offers a short and sweet tip on using the new Outlook-OneNote integration. This is one of my favorite things about the Office 2007 upgrade and I use it all the time. In fact, at last week’s ETech Conference I subscribed to the event calendar, added the sessions I was interested in [...]
~Eric
I found this “ditty” on the Net a couple of weeks ago… It helps to “feed” my latest fascination with Microsoft OneNote!
Getting Things Done With OneNote 12
Getting Things Done With OneNote 12
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
8:23 AM
A year ago, I wrote about how I used OneNote flags to coordinate tasks according to the “Getting Things Done” philosophy. OneNote 12 goes worlds beyond the original OneNote as a platform for “GTD,” so I thought I’d write about how I’ve adapted my original system.
One of the essential ideas in “GTD” is maintaining as few “collection buckets as you can get by with.” Within Office 12, the two programs that are most likely to be used as collection buckets are Outlook and OneNote; my premise is that while Outlook has “tasks,” OneNote is by far the superior program for managing them. In my system, Outlook is used for its Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts list, while OneNote is the central organizing tool.
The key to using OneNote as a GTD tool is that OneNote can instantly gather and summarize flagged items and group them by name, and filter them so that only unchecked items are visible. Once set up, this gives you immediate access to your “next action” items:
To do this, you have to customize your OneNote flags, a simple process that is marred only by the fact that instead of acting on the underlying notebook (which you’ll share between computers, as we’ll discuss later), customization is on a per-machine basis. So you have to perform this process on every machine.
In “GTD” every multistep task is a “project,” every single task is an “action,” and the next physical action you need to do is the “next action.” The heart of GTD is breaking projects down into actions and next actions, so that your to-do list is a set of achievable tasks “Buy 10 pounds of nails at Home Depot” rather than overwhelming things like “Build the house.”
Additionally, I break down my projects into 3 categories: “Urgent” projects on which I should be concentrating, “Ongoing” projects, and “Deferred” projects (some people call these “Fallow” projects).
With that in mind, I customize my note flags. I use open checkboxes for actions, and starred checkboxes to indicate projects. I use green, blue, and yellow to indicate urgent, ongoing, and deferred categories:
You’ll notice that I additionally have a “Waiting” flag assigned to Ctl-9 and that the “Next Action” and “To Do” flags have an @ prepended so that they “sort” to the top of my “Note Flag Summary” view. Another important keyboard shortcut is Ctl-0, which clears all notes on an item. So now, you have assignment of actions and projects near at hand.
Organizing Projects
The original OneNote had a design philosophy of using a single notebook, with many sections, many pages, and many subpages. OneNote 2007 has a much more flexible philosophy, with multiple notebooks and hierarchical sections. One of the biggest decisions you can make in a OneNote-based GTD system is how you will organize projects — with notebooks, sections, or pages/subpages?
To be clear, you can make a project just using a hierarchy and note flags:
But generally, “real” projects involve gathering data and thoughts and meeting people and lots of sub-projects: in other words, they typically involve gathering all the other stuff OneNote excels at. And this is really the key reason why OneNote is perfect for “Getting Things Done”: it’s not just a “To Do List” manager or an outliner. Unlike dedicated outliners, it doesn’t impose an outline or hierarchy on everything you do. That’s very important: to be able to take the note, capture the thought, etc. before it’s categorized / placed within a hierarchy.
For me, projects are best organized as either page/subpage combinations or as sections/subsections. Do not create a section for every project: it clutters your notebooks too quickly. Currently, I primarily use page/subpage combinations for personal projects and ongoing themes (blog entries, exercise goals, shopping lists, etc.) and use section/subsections to organize clients and projects (as a contractor, I create a subsection for each billable contract, and use “Print to OneNote” to keep convenient copies of the estimate / invoice / payment process.
I use a minimum of notebooks: Personal, Work, and Archive for my GTD-oriented activities and then a couple of others dedicated to my creative outlets and hobbies. When a task is checked completed, it is filtered out of the “Note Flag Summary,” but during the Weekly Review, I delete completed trivial tasks and move finished projects / sections to the Archive notebook. (Of course, I visit and re-prioritize my projects and tasks.)
Perhaps my favorite feature in OneNote 12 is sharing notebooks between machines. With 7 machines, including 3 Tablet PCs, I may be an outlier, but even if you just have two machines, shared notebooks are an incredible boon. Essentially, this is one of those “it just works” facilities — when you create a notebook, say that you are going to share it between machines, and, bang!, OneNote keeps them synchronized — even when both are open simultaneously! It’s fantastic, I can be writing on my Tablet out on the porch, get stuck, go inside and do some keyboard-intensive research, pasting into OneNote, go back outside, and everything is synched perfectly.
Special bonus productivity program:
The other essential program to keep me productive is Sciral Consistency, which is almost perfect for tracking repeating tasks with soft deadlines.
As you can probably infer, you create a task and set “minimum” and “maximum” days for each cycle: do the bills every 10 to 15 days, exercise every 1-2 days, download Website logs every 20-40 days, etc. Here, you can see that I haven’t been exercising enough
and that I should haul trash and sweep the driveway in the next couple of days.
There are only two improvements I’d desperately love for Consistency: a version for my PDA (synchronized, of course) and the ability to attach a note to a “check,” which would make Consistency an awesome training log.
Created with Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 (Beta)
One place for all your information
I found this site through my “Netvibes.com” homepage.
What Does Your Browser Reveal About Your Personality
Posted by Will on August 21st, 2006
This is a funny post about the browsers people use, and what they say about those who use them. Go there to read the whole thing, but here are clips from the article about IE 6, Firefox, Opera and Flock. As I have mentioned earlier, I use Opera (about 75% of the time), Flock (24%) and IE7beta (only when I absolutely have to).
IE 6.0: You probably don’t know what a “browser” is and you think Internet is IE. You have no clue about technology, and you are generally afraid of computers. You also use your machine only for IM, chat, email and myspace. Your friends keep telling you about that “Fried Fox” thingy but you don’t really understand this stuff and never really had time to look into it.
Firefox 1.x: You are most likely a little bit geeky and proud of it. You are a strong supporter of the Open Source movement, and you think that RMS is “the man”. You really don’t care if FF is faster, or safer than IE – you would use it even if it performed 10 times worse. You are just happy that you have a free, open source browser with a huge community that is supporting it. At any given time you have installed at least 7 extensions that you couldn’t live without.
Opera: You really don’t care for the Firefox hype. What you want is the best browser there is – and for you that’s Opera. You actually used to pay them when the browser was add supported. If a Firefox fanboi starts talking smack about your browser you quickly shoot him down by proposing the ACID2 test. You know what you want (a fast, standards compliant browser) and you know where to get it. Browser wars do not interest you at all, although you kinda hope that Firefox wins so that fewer web developers make IE only pages.
Flock: They might as well call you Mr. Web 2.0. You are all over flickr, del.icio.us, youtube and dozens of other websites, and your browser reflects it. You think that Firefox is OK, but it does not include all the blogging, photo sharing, tagging and bookmark sharing tools right there at your fingertips. You wish you could get a chip implanted in your brain so that you would stay connected to the web and be able to moblog 24/7. When the small minded people tell you that Flock is just a fork of Firefox you dismiss them saying they are not seeing the big picture.
I find this humorous… I’m the “Opera Browser Type”… Although, I have to admit, I didn’t pay for the add supported version. I was “Freeloading”!
This was from Will’s Blog @ http://faith2hope2love.wordpress.com/
tags: firefox, opera, internet+explorer, flock, browser, personality, types,
I’m sitting here at the Tech Office. I am one of the two instructors that are teaching the WebQuest class for our professional development “platform”. It is really exciting; last week we worked with 18 energetic, excited teachers. Well they were when they completed the project ! It was a class for the “beginner user”. As I instructed them at the beginning of the class, “We haven’t lost anyone yet!” They all made it through, had their WebQuests posted online, etc. I’m sure it had much to do with the WONDERFUL/HIGHLY TUNED TEACHING SKILLS of the instructors <gsh> but, it was probably more because they were determined!
This week we are teaching the class for the Advanced User. They are flying with their ideas… Definitely more of a “facilitator” this week, than a trouble shooter from last week!
We use MS Word to create the WebQuests, it’s just the easiest platform to train with… plus, it is already installed on our school notebooks, which makes it accessible!!! Very important, if they are going to do more with it in the future!
As I sit here, watching them work, thinking of the time they are offered to complete the projects, I think of how fortunate we are to have a school district that offers this opportunity. Our class is PDE Certified as a 2 credit class. They have to fulfill 30 hours, and they earn every minute of it! It really is a great opportunity!
Back to the main question of the post… What is technology in the Middle? It is a “catch all”… We are taking students from 5 separate elementary buildings and pulling together the “strings” as best we can, to accomplish a main goal. Some teachers take the approach of technology as a vehicle to get them there, some utilize many great teaching strategies (i.e., differentiated instruction), and some blend the two. I am on the side of “blending”… Within the structure of the room, we have many students (more and more each year) who are computer savvy. They can do many things on the computer. It’s getting them to do things in an appropriate manner (i.e., word & sentence structure Thank you IM!). Don’t get me wrong, I believe that the fact that they are communicating is a wonderful thing, we just have to harness it and help them “use it for good” HA!!!
I am in the mindset of educating, not taking things away. Many people will come back with, we aren’t there parents, that’s who should be taking care of this… Well, if we left it totally up to the parents… things would be rather scary in the classrooms today
I will post more on technology in the middle later!
No this isn’t going to be a post about Soccer… You can thank me later! I have been using Office 2007 for some time now and felt as thought it was time to create a blog.
I was “debating” whether or not to create a site with WordPress. I will eventually get there, but I wanted to start something now! (Have to wait till next paycheck to get domain name, etc.)
I was fortunate to have our IT department install the beta of Office 2007 on my school notebook computer! It is GREAT so far! Again, I will update with many posts in the future!
~Eric
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