Tablet PCs
In this Teaching with Technology Tuesdays session, Themba Flowers, manager in the Educational
Technology Group, discussed using Tablet PCs both to annotate lecture notes in Word, PDF, PowerPoint or image document formats to increase in-class student participation while eliminating undesired competition for attention from email, web-browsing, etc.
A Yale Economics class taught by Professor Donald Brown, Philip R Allen Professor of Economics,
served as a test-case for tablet PC usage. Themba examined how classroom management software along with the interactivity of the TabletPC provided an opportunity, as Professor Brown put it, “to send all of the students to the blackboard at the same time.”
This session showcased the Collaborative Learning Center’s recently purchased TabletPCs and collaborative software.
For a more detailed treatment of this topic, please see Themba Flowers’ Power Point Presentation on Tablet usage:
