Are your students tired of cookbook labs that bear little resemblance to real science? Brent Eldridge at Bluegrass Community & Technical College (Lexington, Kentucky) and his colleagues are using tablet pcs to revamp the lab experience to be field-based, dynamic, and highly collaborative... Eldridge's...
Live classroom interaction is an instructional model that is often missing in synchronous online presentations. Richard Anderson, University of Washington, shows us how he brings graphical interaction into an online course that is broadcast synchronously to three sites - one of which is a world away...
I know many of you are involved/interested in using Tablet PCs and GPS sensors for mapping. If so, you might be interested in hearing about the project that is being launched at the Nova Scotia Community College… The Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community College in Canada is one of...
For those of you who enjoyed hearing how Mark Manone at Northern Arizona University is using Tablet PCs with mapping applications in the field, I think you’ll find what Meg Stewart and Kirsten Menking at Vassar are doing to be of interest. Meg Stewart just sent me a link to a paper that she and Kirsten...
Technology is enticing, especially to students who are have come to expect everything to be multimedia and immediate. If we really care about using technology to enhance teaching and learning, we must challenge one another by continually asking, “Is this better than paper and pencil?” Let’s admit it...
HP Online Speaker Series Higher Education Technology for Teaching 28 March 2007 10:00 – 11:00 am Pacific Time “Using Tablet PCs and Pen-based Technologies for Mapping; Teaching Earth Science applications throughout an undergraduate curriculum” I am pleased to announce our next online webinar! Please...