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Tweet this! Ask anyone who has attended an online webinar presentation, a live "broadcast lecture", or viewed a lecture that has been video podcast, and chances are they were multitasking - big time. Let's face it: Without actually engaging the audience, a lecture is highly ineffective...
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Tweet this! I recently had the privilege of introducing 50 middle school teachers to their new tablet pcs. It was great fun, and everyone left with something simple they could try the first time they fired up their tablet in class. If you've just acquired a tablet pc to enhance your teaching, or...
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Tweet this! The "Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education" (WIPTE, usually pronounced "WHIPPED-tee" by attendees) is a great event for anyone looking for innovations in education through the use of pen technologies such as tablet pcs. This year, the conference is...
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Tweet this! In their project, " Enhance Project-Based Team Learning in the Mobile Computing Curriculum with Tablet PC's" , the faculty at Virginia Western Community College are using tablet pc's in their college level programming courses taught ONLINE, and for face-to-face robot control...
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Tweet this! Calculus is a "gatekeeper" course for many technical degrees, and failing calculus often results in dreams denied. Thankfully, many of the HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients have redesigned the calculus learning experience, with measurable improvements in student academic...
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Tweet this! There's nothing like making physics and math real by giving students a design challenge that's engaging and exciting - and you know you're making progress when you have students saying, "The best part about this is you are learning - but you don't even realize you are...
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...better than what? OK, the full title should have been "Eleven Reasons Why a Tablet PC + Digital Projector is Better Than a Whiteboard or Overhead Projector... and Sometimes Smarter Than a Smartboard". I'm still frequently asked what a Tablet PC can do. Once I explain that they do everything...
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The tablet pc project at Clemson University continues to grow. With grants provided from the HP Technology for Teaching initiative, teaching and learning is taking on new forms - with measurable improvements in student success. Marilyn Reba, Lisa Benton, and Barbara Weaver (all from Clemson) took the...
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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...
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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...
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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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Clemson University first received an HP Technology for Teaching grant in 2006. Based on their excellent progress and initial results, they received a follow-on Leadership grant in 2007. Now their students have created a short video that shows the impact. It's fantastic... The use of Tablet PCs at...
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Any educator who is using a tablet PC should know about WIPTE, an acronym derived from the original Workshop on Pen-Based Technology in Education that was first held at Purdue. It's a great venue to learn from other tablet-using-educators, and a great place to share your own research and innovations...
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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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OK, I admit I was a doubter years ago when I first heard about Second Life. No more. Having just participated in tonight's "ISTE Speaker Series" event held on ISTE Island, I have to say that the experience was FAR more fun and "human" than most "slide sharing" webinars...