Notion

I've heard whispers about Notion on the internet, but have never actually used it before. And, the things that I did know about it were for more personal/life organization. So, I decided to give it a go to see how it can be used for educators. (Annie)

What is Notion?

This is their definition: "Notion is a versatile, all-in-one workspace that combines note-taking, project management, and database features, allowing users to organize their thoughts, projects, and information in a flexible and customizable ways"

The first thing that is nice is that Notion is using AI technology even for the free version, and it helps you generate a specific site right when you log in. The above is a screenshot of what it looks like when you first log in, and you can see that it is a tool that can be used in a variety of different ways.

The above is what got generated after about 30 seconds, and as you can see, it has a super helpful class management system. I made some edits and added in some theoretical classes. I then decided to use the Notion AI tool to see how I could add in lesson plans.

So, using the AI suggestion, I went back to the table and added in lesson plan notes to where I felt made the most sense to me.

One of the big ticket items that people rave about with Notion is the ability to track the progress of your courses. I took to AI again to see how this can be done:

The other thing that I found that could be advantageous for educators is that Notion has community templates, and allows you to share your templates as well. This means that if you were collaborating with someone on a course, or were wanting to share helpful course content to someone taking over your course, you could share your Notion with them.

If you would like to dive in more, or potentially use this tool for your own work as an eductor, I found the above video to be extremely helpful, and he has a template that you can download (for $) if interested!

Todd's Comments

Last year I co-orgainized a community that wrote about "creative pedagogies." It was cool. We worked with some faculty at the University of Glasgow.

The Glasgow faculty I started it with created this for the month we did the work. It is built in Notion. I was pretty excited as I had not seen it used like that, so I built this for our class. Unfortunately, I did not take the time to actually figure it out and make it work in the way it is supposed to. But I will sometime. Just not for this class...

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