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Tweet this! Once people discover what I do for a living, it's only natural that people want to know, "How do I get a grant from HP?" Other than the obvious, "Read the Request for Proposals carefully and answer the questions...", here are my Top Three Tips for your consideration...
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Tweet this! Those of you who have been following my blog know I'm a big fan of "knowing what your students don't know in real time" so we can help them get over their misconception hurdles. While I mostly talk about real-time graphical response through tablet pcs (DyKnow, InkSurvey...
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For those of you wondering about the significance of "digital ink", Dr. Ron Uhlig at National University (San Diego, California, USA) has collected some rather compelling evidence - and a great example of the use of tablet pcs... Dr. Uhlig is an associate professor and chair of the Department...
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Edward Price, Chuck De Leone, and Robin Marion from California State University in San Marcos, have been using Tablet PCs from their HP Technology for Teaching grant to explore how they might compare to traditional whiteboards in support of students working in groups. With the help of Ubiquitous Presenter...
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Dr. Kuldeep Rawat has been the Principal Investigator for a 2007 HP Technology for Teaching grant at Elizabeth City State University (North Carolina, USA). Their goals was to enhance student learning by increasing the "interactivity" of courses such as Engineering Technology, Circuits, and...
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Rick Reis from the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, has a great newsletter called "Tomorrow's Professor". Not long ago he shared a recent article on clickers, which was an excerpt of "Teaching with Clickers" by Erping Zhu (University of Michigan, Center for Research...
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This is one of my favorite seasons of the year. Not only is the weather in Northern California absolutely gorgeous (mornings around 65f/18c, blue skies, light ocean breeze), but it’s also the time of year when I have the joy of reading project update reports from HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients...
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The annual HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference is one of my all-time favorite events. It seems like just a short time ago we met in February for 2 days – 138 faculty from 21 countries, sharing their expertise and excitement about using technology to enhance the learner experience...
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A colleague just referred me to a thought-provoking article that ran recently in the Educause Quarterly. John Campbell (Purdue) and Diana Oblinger (Educause Learning Initiative), and colleagues, provide us with a thoughtful list of important issues faced by academic technology professionals… The article...
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I frequently get asked for examples of how tablet PCs can be used in the classroom. In addition to my own “Gallery” of higher education projects funded by HP grants, there is a second edition of what I call The WIPTE Books – featuring exemplary papers presented at Purdue earlier this summer… This most...
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We just had a fantastic HP Online Speaker Series presentation by Marilyn Reba and Roy Pargas of Clemson University, discussing " Using Tablet PCs and Web-based Software to Enable Active Learning in Mathematics Classrooms"... If you missed the session or want to share it with your colleagues, the University...
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Gary Dietz from Elluminate has posted on his blog an interview with Dr. Ricky Cox, an HP Technology for Teaching grant recipient at Murray State University (Kentucky, USA). Ricky describes how inking makes it easy to conduct real-time office hours with students. See http://elluminate.edublogs.org/2007...
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We all know how hard it is to measure learning, especially in the context of evaluating the impact new technology that is integrated into a learning experience. To help overcome this challenge, SRI’s Center for Technology in Learning has just released a draft Guidebook. It’s short, it’s practical, and...
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Last year I started asking higher education grant recipients to start creating public webpages to describe their HP Technology for Teaching grant-supported projects. The purpose is to raise the visibility of the projects while encouraging the participating faculty to reflect on the progress and impact...
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For those of us interested in making a measurable, positive impact on student learning, it’s time we take a close look at assessment. I’m not talking just about testing and grading – I’m talking about using the best of what is known about measuring learning to guide the design and evaluation of course...