Educational Application of Digital Inking

Being able to digitally ink in a vast variety of Microsoft Products provides many applications for the classroom teacher. Some of these include the following:

Note-Taking: Students can download a template for taking Cornell notes and write note during a live presentation, a video, or an OfficeMix presentation either in class or at home during a flipped lesson.
Graphic Organizers: Students can download a graphic organizer from OneNote or Canvas and then complete it using digital inking. There are a variety of graphic organizers that can be utilized in class from Venn diagrams, fishbone diagrams, and vocabulary Sketches
Brainstorming: Gives the students the ability to collaborate and brainstorm ideas using either a blank Word document or PowerPoint slide. Then they can keep their work to refer back to it. This is important at the beginning of a project or unit to asses background knowledge and at the end of a project to review content and brainstorm presentation ideas as well as topics for papers.
Data collection: Using the inking ability in Word or OneNote students can jot down data and observations during science experiments and since the information would be in a Word or OneNote file, the students would not lose the information because OneNote automatically saves all information.
Maps: Students can download maps to illustrate and complete. They can mark landmarks on the maps as well as follow travel routes.
Diagrams: They can complete scientific diagrams and color diagrams and then save the documents for review later
Images: Students can annotate images and pictures using the inking features in Microsoft Office and Windows 10.
Sketches: Students can make initial sketches for art projects or engineering projects using the inking functions.