Teaching with Tablets

The Music Notepad is a system for entering common music notation based on 2D gestural input. The key feature of the system is the look-and-feel of the interface which approximates sketching music with paper and pencil. A probability-based interpreter integrates sequences of gestural input to perform the most common notation and editing operations. The paper presented at UIST '98 described the user's model of the system, the components of the high-level recognition system, and a discussion of the evolution of the system including user feedback.

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Using the digital pen to mark up slides is easy - and it sure is more effective than using a laser pointer. When you're done with your lecture, you can save the marked up slides and share them with your class. I also think this reduces (but doesn't eliminate) the cognitive load on students when they're taking notes, as they don't have to scurry to transcribe EVERYTHING you've written on the whiteboard.\n

Lausanne Laptop Institute 2007 - My Tablet Changed My Life\nSaint Mary's School Faculty have had tablets for two years and students have had them for one year. This provides an overview of the program including funding, hardware, and software and a look at what teachers are doing in the classroom with tablets.\nPowerPoint Handouts

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The Tablet PC is an intriguing new development in portable computing technology. This article describes the Tablet PC, gives some technical details, compares the Tablet PC to other forms of computer, provides an example of actual classroom use at the University of Illinois, and suggests further research on, and potential applications of, this technology in classroom instruction.