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Thomas Nicholas

Resistive touch vs. digitizer (and the new Classmate tablet) - 32 views

Thanks for info. I did see the ASUS Eee tablet, and my concern with it (though I am excited by it) is the same as with the Classmate... that resistive digitizer. My students don't use tablets on ...

resistive touch screen active digitizer classmate pc

Tami Brass

OneNote Tips & Tricks : Tracking Activity in Shared Notebooks - 0 views

  • Another thing that OneNote is great for is shared note taking. What? You mean other people can share my notes? Well...only if you want them to.
  • Tips: Right-click a note to see who made the most-recent change to it and when it was made. You'll see a menu appear. Just look at the last 2 items at the bottom of the menu. It contains the date and time the note was last modified and the name of the individual who made that change. If 2 people have made a change in the same location and at the same time, a conflict occurs. OneNote does not preserve one users notes, while deleting another's. But rather, a hidden page, affectionately deemed a conflict page, will be created containing all unmerged changes. When this happens, a notification will appear at the top of the page. Simply click on it to reveal the page containing the unmerged changes. Or alternatively, you can click the icon that appears on the page tab itself. When you click the notification or the icon, the page expands to reveal the hidden page. On your page you'll see the final note that made it onto the actual page of notes, like this: When you click on the conflict page, you'll see the note that didn't make it onto the page highlighted in red, like this: What happens from here is completely up to you. If you determine that none of the unmerged changes are necessary, you can delete the conflict page and move on. Just select the page and press the <Delete> key, or right-click the page and select Delete from the menu. Once this happens, the conflict notification icons are removed from the top of the page and from the page tab. If you decide that you want to salvage the conflicting note, just copy the contents from the conflict page to the actual page of notes. Or, if you're not sure, just leave it. You can click the icon again to collapse the conflict page so it stays out of site. All conflicting changes will remain intact until you decide to take action.
Tami Brass

Enhanced classroom presentations with a Tablet PC - 0 views

  • provide an interactive, multimedia digital blackboard
  • Students in the class describe, comment and "draw" on (annotate) images related to course topics, and complete such activities as filling in missing words in paragraphs and exercises. Professor Karagoz also has students use her Tablet PC during group writing activities, in which they use Windows Journal to complete short exercises.
  • Instead of using an overhead projector with transparencies, he used the computer to annotate slides and charts, marking the screen up in different colors to highlight key points or data as needed.
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  • She was able to immediately address student requests for more explanation and context because she was able to sketch and label during class.  She could then distribute these notes after class to her students.   
Tami Brass

Dongwhan Kim | HCI Portfolio : TabletPC Math Whiz - 0 views

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    Tablet PC does provide the ideal platform for implementing interactive applications where instant feedback reinforce education. However, current system was developed with little attention to UI considerations of the target user and web application. Our project team is challenged to redesign the current UI to support better tablet-pen based activities and make it as close to a paper/pencil environment as possible.
Tami Brass

Kerpoof™ Home - 0 views

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    Try drawing with SuperDoodle! Kerpoof is testing a new activity! You can be the artist in Super Doodle. Paint, choose and mix colors and more. Play in Super Doodle
Michèle Drechsler

Socialbookmarking and Education. A survey - 2 views

Hello I am preparing a thesis in information sciences and communication at the University of Metz. (France). My research focuses on the practices of socialbookmarking in the field of Education. As...

socialbookmarking Education survey

started by Michèle Drechsler on 12 Jul 09 no follow-up yet
Tami Brass

Teaching with Tablets - Laptop Learning Community - 0 views

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    This Ning hasn't been very active since last summer, but it can be useful as a place to network with other teachers using laptops in the classroom.
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    This group is for educators who use tablets as a learning tool. Please join if you're interested in tablet computing, are a teacher with a tablet, or teach at a school where students use tablets. This Ning is specifically dedicated to teachers who teach in schools using laptops.
Tami Brass

OneNote and Education : OneNote and Learning Styles - Dr. Ole Lauridsen - 1 views

  • learning communities are not aware of the enormous learning potential that is to be found in this “electronic notebook”
  • many learners are simply not capable of choosing among the many features available in OneNote in a qualified way
  • eNote is the one that embraces most learning styles elements and does it in the most direct way
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  • m a constructivist point of view, all learning implies the transformation of information into knowledge, and this goes for teaching, too, in the modern – i.e. constructivist – sense of the word: Creating an adequate environment for learning.
  • OneNote is a very strong learning tool that may be completely personalized in accordance with to the users’ needs, not least their learning styles needs.
  • OneNote supports the auditory strength by allowing users to work with audio files. Whole lectures, group meetings, and also thoughts, ideas, brainwaves, can be recorded and stored for further processing, provided with relevant annotations (the latter as “sticky quotes” created through a mouse click on the OneNote icon in the notification area).
  • The use of text and all kinds of pictures obviously supports visual learners. OneNote contains many visual elements, and creative users can design their own as well.
  • Tactile learners benefit from the mere use of a computer and thus of course from the mere use of OneNote. Drawing, making audio or video recordings, scrolling, following links, etc. are important activities for tactile learners and strongly support their focus and their learning process.
  • Verbal learners often like to talk to themselves, and they may support this preference by using OneNote’s recording tool. Mentally, recording speech is more binding than saying words that just vanish into thin air; consequently, a recording has a much larger learning impact than mere speech that is not recorded.
  • The smooth interaction with other Microsoft Office applications (first of all, Outlook and Explorer) makes it easy to switch between tasks; furthermore, the program as such with its notebooks, sections, subsections, and many features gives the multitaskers fantastic opportunities to meet their individual needs.
  • OneNote supports the learners’ preferences whether they want to work alone, in pairs, in a peer groups, or teams, and whether or not they need to consult a person of authority while working and, finally, whether or not they prefer variation between these options,.
Tami Brass

SUSD Tablet Pilot Program - 0 views

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    Sample screen shots of activities done in class with corresponding tools
Tami Brass

UW Classroom Presenter - 0 views

  • The ability to link the instructor and student devices, and to send information back and forth provides a mechanism for introducing active learning into the classroom and creates additional feedback channels.
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    A tablet-specific tool for classroom collaboration and screen-sharing
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    Potential use in place of DyKnow for schools on a budget?
Tami Brass

Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life - 0 views

  • 1. Defrag regularly
  • 2. Dim your screen
  • 3. Cut down on programs running in the background.
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  • 4. Cut down external devices
  • 5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory. 
  • 6. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse. 
  • 7.  Keep the battery contacts clean: 
  • 8. Take care of your battery - Exercise the Battery.
  • Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge. (Discharing is only for older batteries with memory effects)
  • 9. Hibernate not standby - Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. 
  • 10. Keep operating temperature down
  • 11. Set up and optimize your power options - Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).
  • 12. Don’t multitask - Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery. 
  • 13. Go easy on the PC demands - The more you demand from your PC.  Passive activities like email and word processing consume much less power than gaming or playing a DVD.  If you’ve got a single battery charge - pick your priorities wisely.
  • 14. Get yourself a more efficient laptop
  • 15. Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ - Keep the battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries (which most laptops have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.
  • Bonus Tip #1: Turn off the autosave function. 
  • While it saves battery life in the beginning, you will want to make sure your work is saved when your battery dies.
  • Bonus Tip #2: Lower the graphics use.
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    How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.
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