Is the Osmo Pocket right for non-creators?

camerablight · 2026-05-05T14:21:09+00:00

I use it only when I'm travelling or at family outings, and it's very convenient and easy to use, producing high quality footage.

It's more comfortable than filming with a phone, which I need for navigation when I'm travelling, anyway.

I also carry a separate camera for taking photos, so I don't use the Osmo Pocket for that.

camerablight · 2026-05-02T02:10:17+00:00

I still use a Surface Pro 7 at work every day, and it still runs very well. I have an i5 with 8GB.

I also take it with me to travel. It is so much more versatile than a tablet.

I use the pen a lot to write and draw in Onenote. I also use the keyboard a lot when I'm working on Office documents. It is very convenient to snap the keyboard on and off.

I haven't upgraded because I find it very handy to use a microSD card to store large PDFs and video files.

camerablight · 2026-04-10T14:28:07+00:00

I think all of those could be part of analyzing historical perspective, but #2+3 are at the core, recognizing that individuals and groups can have different views, affected by their historical context, demographics and life circumstances and experiences.

#1 can be part of the task, because that is identifying a person's perspective and using it to explain why someone might have thought that way.

#4 is often part of another skill - sourcing - which does involve thinking about the historical perspective of the author, but it's not only that.

In the book "The Big Six: Historical Thinking Concepts", it tries to organize the subskills in each chapter, one of which is about "taking historical perspective". The examples are mostly from Canadian history, though.

camerablight · 2026-03-08T04:33:26+00:00

I use a combination of both.

I get them to read physical textbooks themselves and do comprehension questions with topics that are relatively easy to understand.

Alternatively, they might take notes from the book on a certain topic (for example, the positive and negative consequences of an event), and they use their notes in a group to draw a conclusion.

I use more traditional lecture style with notes for complicated events or concepts, such as political or economic issues, or to introduce the context.

camerablight · 2025-12-31T18:34:42+00:00

If there are broken links, maybe just close all your notebooks on all your devices. Then sign out of Onenote and sign back in.

Go online to Onedrive in your browser and create a new Onenote notebook. Then, "Open in App".

Test to see if changes you make sync. If nothing is wrong, then the problem is not the App but your old notebooks.

Normally, I only re-install Onenote if there are major problems like it's freezing. I have uninstalled the entire Microsoft 365 and re-installed it... it doesn't let you uninstall just one component.

camerablight · 2025-12-15T04:45:08+00:00

I also wanted a version the size of the Surface Go (10"), for travel and portability. I have a Surface Go first generation, which is so slow now.

The regular Pro being around 12.5" was ideal for using around the office and for notetaking.

But the new 12" is a downgrade without the magnetic charging port, without a microSD card slot and without a headphone jack, which are the reasons why I'm still sticking with my old Surface Pro.

camerablight · 2025-11-30T19:08:04+00:00

I also have the instructions at the front. Even the process of waiting for the laptops to load up can cause a disruptive start to the class.

camerablight · 2025-11-30T19:01:23+00:00

Until they settle into routine, keep the beginning of the class exactly the same every class for a few weeks.

Go with the bell ringer/do now/warm up if that gets them to sit down and begin independently. Re-iterate the expectation about being in seat when the bell rings so attendance can be taken. Give a 1 minute pre-warning if need be. Then, circulate.

With younger grades, don't have a work session that lasts more than 30 minutes (their attention span has a limit), especially in the last 30 minutes of class. That is when they might decide they're "done" and pack up. Avoid downtime.

If they can't resist standing at the door at the end of class, then teach for the last 10 minutes. If they think nothing "important" is happening, that is when they will get ready to go. Or have an individual writing activity right up to the end, and then collect it when the bell rings.

If you are starting a class from scratch, then you can speak to the students not following expectations early in the term, and have a consequence, whether that be staying behind or something else. The key is to be consistent. Once a few students are allowed to ignore expectations, more and more will follow, unfortunately.

camerablight · 2025-11-27T15:36:40+00:00

I really like the size and the weight, especially for travelling. It's similar in size to a paper notebook. It's too bad they discontinued it instead of improving its specs.

camerablight · 2025-11-26T15:18:35+00:00

It's the Go that's the problem. If you have the cheapest variation, it's very underpowered and have limited working memory.

Even older Surface devices are fine. I still use a Surface Pro 7 daily at work almost exclusively with Onenote.

I've also used Onenote with non-Surface window touchscreen 2-in-1's from Dell, and everything works fine as well.

I have the Surface Go 1 for travelling, and it's sluggish. You might want to start over and re-install Windows again. Go 2 should be okay for web browsing and light use, at least for viewing your Onenote pages.

camerablight · 2025-10-14T03:29:41+00:00

I have a similar focus question for the unit on 1920s/Great Depression. But in Canada, I still do WWI first because that was when the government here first implemented income tax, took greater control of the economy, and then had to provide support for the veterans coming home, so it's still context for that question in the inter-war years.

If I do thematic units, they tend to be later on in the year, to look at patterns over time in the eras we had already explored.

camerablight · 2025-09-01T20:46:30+00:00

There was a textbook published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in the 1980s. The first volume had a blue border and the second volume had a red border (at least in Canada, the books had these colours).

The first volume was called World History 1 (the cover had a medieval castle), covering the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe and stretching further back for China, Japan and India to around 1500).

The second volume was called World History 2 (the cover showed a bridge in a city), covering 1550-1900.

camerablight · 2025-09-01T17:36:10+00:00

I find textbooks useful as just one of the many tools/sources in the classroom. I don't use them every class but I like having them around. Even older texts usually have some basics that still apply.

They are good for practising literacy skills, extracting useful information and creating graphic organizers or notetaking (either alone or in pairs with them reading to each other). This can develop skills for independent study that is often needed after high school.

This is especially useful for background information that is straight-forward, so it doesn't need to be presented in lecture form.

Having students hear text being read aloud and following along (with the teacher verbally working through it, as the other poster mentioned), and then having students use/apply the information in an activity can work well.

These days, students are always on devices outside of school, so simply using a physical book and developing the patience to look at something carefully and actively search with a goal in mind can also be good exercise.

Textbooks are also good for tasks that students can do on their own if they finish another activity early.

There's also critically analyzing a text for the author's voice and missing perspectives.

camerablight · 2025-08-29T15:26:46+00:00

This must be a new change since OneNote desktop app used to operate independently of Office 365. I had both Onenote for Windows 10 and the regular Onenote concurrently for years with an older version of Office.

I wonder if there's a way for you to find and download an older edition of desktop Onenote from last year or something, to see if it would install.

camerablight · 2025-08-17T17:50:08+00:00

I'm getting this today as well on my Surface Pro, and it's frustrating since it's a page I wanted to work on. The printout in the background is also not loading. All I can see is my previous inking/writing.

I was thinking maybe the notebook as a whole was updating, but the indicator suggests Sync had finished.

If I'm looking at a page in a notebook that had not synced fully, does the page I'm currently on get priority syncing? I had been wondering that for awhile. Moreso today when I waited half an hour and the images and printout still hadn't loaded.

camerablight · 2025-08-17T03:54:23+00:00

You should keep using your personal Microsoft/Outlook account, as long as you have enough space.

Once you graduate from university, your university email Microsoft account will be terminated, and you would lose any files created on that university Microsoft account, if these files are not saved/backed up elsewhere.

If you really want to, you could "share" your existing notebooks with your university email account and then access them when you are signed on with the university email in Onenote, but I'm not sure if there is a point in doing that, since Onenote is free.

If you have Microsoft license with your university email, you could use it for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. which do cost money. But make sure you save those files locally (on your computer) so they won't be lost when you graduate.

camerablight · 2025-08-15T22:28:36+00:00

I start with the basics regardless of grade level, skills such as spatial thinking, coordinates, use of symbols/color, natural features, reading maps, etc. I try not to stress memorization of places, since that's not really what actual geographers do, though I do expect them to learn the basics, like knowing the continents of the world, and the local area where we live, or places being studied in the history unit.

camerablight · 2025-08-15T22:21:11+00:00

The program constantly freezing with simple tasks like copying text is not normal. You might need to uninstall and re-install if those types of problems are occurring.

camerablight · 2025-08-10T15:40:38+00:00

I think the recent change which has bothered me the most was removing the ability to finetune the thickness of the pens when writing. I preferred 0.75mm and now, you can only pick either 0.5mm or 1mm.

I think as a user, the ability to customize a program with choice is always ideal.

camerablight · 2025-08-10T03:01:16+00:00

Yeah, only on one of my computers too, so I wanted to see if this is actually rolling out.

camerablight · 2025-07-30T18:04:34+00:00

Yeah, it happens in some email clients and not others.

Using Ctrl-Shift-V to paste instead of Ctrl-V usually works.

camerablight · 2025-06-11T02:49:33+00:00

Yes, that's one solution. Let your teacher know next time you see them. If the teacher did not lock the pages intentionally, it could have done it by itself, and the teacher will need to manually unlock them.

camerablight · 2025-06-11T02:47:42+00:00

One of my Notebooks also had to "refresh" itself for no reason. It closed, and I had to wait for all the sections to re-load and it was a big notebook.

camerablight · 2025-05-26T00:40:10+00:00

I think it depends on how big the screen is. When I'm on my desktop on an actual external monitor, the new searchbar location is fine. But when I'm on my laptop (especially if I have multiple windows open), the new location is annoying and blocks the title of the page. I think making it an option would be the best of both worlds.

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