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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The increased interest in classroom response systems is intriguing to me. Breaking the mold of straight-up, non-stop lectures by polling the audience has obvious benefits, like getting a glimpse at knowing what your students know (and don’t know) in real-time. Previous experiments in the 1970s with ...