Teaching with Tablets

This would be great on a tablet or IWB!

Free 2009 calendars that you can download, customize, and print. Calendars are available in PDF and Microsoft Word formats. Would be great for OneNote or if you're using a tabletpc to ink notes on a calendar.

it will have a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, a 60 GB hard drive, and Windows XP. The clearest improvements have been made to the 8.9-inch screen's touch interface. We complained last time that: Because the Windows XP Home OS is not meant for tablet use, we had to install a few of our own freeware programs to take full advantage of the touchscreen. Turns out Intel had some pretty interesting plans up their sleeve and now the notebook is preloaded with lots of software that takes advantage of the touchscreen including a program called Vision Objects Pen Input, which turns handwriting into editable text and contains a virtual keyboard. And that is just the start of it. Intel plans to team up with software vendors to preload the laptops with a stack of touch-focused applications.They are also teaming up with content providers, such as McGraw Hill, to package the laptops with learning tools. Beyond the software additions, the accelerometer has really been fine-tuned. Turning the netbook vertically adjusted the screen orientation in under 2 seconds. So sure the Convertible Classmate is meant for children and isn't a netbook that adults will want to carry around, but its implementation of touch technology on a netbook is what we hope to see from the mainstream netbook vendors that plan to bring touch to the smaller screen. A simplified home screen menu (so you don't have to dig through XPs menus), preloading touch-optimized software and a speedy accelerometer are some of the Classmate's solid features that we want to see in adult touch-enabled netbooks.

What it's like to be a tester on the Microsoft OneNote test team, day to day life as an SDET in Office, and Microsoft life in general.

Export OneNote 2007 notebooks as interactive websites - very cool

Lemon Grove uses an "e-Pad" rather than traditional laptop

Tablet PC's are growing in popularity for teaching and learning. But why would a school start a one-to-one program with tablets or scrap a laptop program for this more costly hardware?

video of a teacher at Forest Ridge school on how he uses OneNote. it's pretty long - i need to watch the whole thing. one thing i already learned from it is how you can paste files onto a page

sorry if someone else has already bookmarked these blogs to this diigo group.

another msdn blog on onenote

an official microsoft blog

OneNote - A planner available for 2009

This would be a great website for use on a tablet

Twitter Group I just created for teachers using tablets

Some of these might be useful forms for use on a tablet

The ZDT (Zhongwen Development Tool) is a program written in Java using the Eclipse RCP to help users study mandarin chinese. It currently contains a Flashcard plugin, a Dictionary search plugin and an Annotator plugin (for translating chinese text).

A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.

Scanner/Touchscreen Input Handwriting Recognition Software: A handwriting recognition program for Windows that is able to recognize both images from a scanner and data from a touch screen. It also works as an OCR program.