Referencing my earlier post about no longer using my Tablet for grading papers, none of that means that I think you shouldn't ask for a Tablet.
I write all over my PowerPoint slides during class, and the touch screen makes it very easy to jump around to different slides when using PPT's presenter view (http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/powerpoint-2007-presenter-view/). You might also want to check out Classroom Presenter (CP) as an alternative to PowerPoint. See: http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/classroom-presentations-unplugged. CP was designed for Tablets. While you lose some PPT features (like hyperlinks and embedded video), you gain some power. You can broadcast your presentation over your college's wifi. Any student in your class with a laptop, can 'grab' your presentation. Not only can they see everything you write in real time on their own laptops, they can add their own notes to the screen. Then... you can have students send a particular screen to you with the click of a button. You can then choose to display, anonymously, some of those screens to the rest of the class. If you had a class where students did a lot of group work, I think this would be a great feature. You would only need a handful of students to make this worthwhile. For instance, the next time I teach Research Methods, I can see myself giving my students small group activities to which this technology would lend itself nicely. As a little bonus, CP comes a built-in polling feature. You start a poll, and your laptop-wielding students can click A-E with their response. A small warning. Classroom Presenter hasn't been updated since August 2008, so I don't know what their plans are for this program. Powerpoint 2010 comes with a broadcast feature, but students aren't able to communicate back to the instructor, take notes on the slides, or save the slides after the presentation. I'm hoping this will change in the next incarnation. Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange (ToPIX) APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology APA's p...@cc Committee --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2702 or send a blank email to leave-2702-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
