Teaching with Tablets

List of suggestions for managing your classroom in a technology-rich environment

Watch a teleconference between educators from the Forest Ridge Sacred Heart School and the East Asian Regional Conference of Schools. The meeting focused on the use of Microsoft Office OneNote and technology in the classroom.

Students and teachers give real examples of how they are using OneNote 2007 to be more efficient at school.

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.

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).

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

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.

Teacher Tech Tuesdays - Get connected and collaborate in your Classroom with Office OneNote Live Jan 20 1:00PM-2:30PM Pacific Time

After playing with a prototype of Intel's Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there's a reason why it's aimed at schools.

A Tablet PC is a unique type of computer that allows the user to "ink" his or her input - words, sketches, diagrams and even math and science notations - and have them saved digitally. It can offer teachers new solutions for teaching and engage students so they are excited about coming to class - or doing fieldwork - and learning. The key to innovation is in their flexibility and mobility. This eBook provides information about them and classroom examples that show how they are taking educational computing far beyond the capabilities of the conventional notebook and where they are making a difference in teaching and learning. We hope you will enjoy reading about this exciting new technology.

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.

Many of us carry a notebook around to take notes for business, school, or personal projects. But can you easily find the info you need? Is it convenient to share your notes with others? This demo shows how you can take control with Office OneNote 2007, the easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program.

WIPTE 2008 will be held on October 15-16, 2008