Tablet PC Enhanced Curricula

University of WashingtonRichard Anderson

http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/

2. Students write answers on slides on their tablets and send them back to the instructor

Classroom Networks• Increase student engagement by providing

logistical support for active learning

• Provide instructor feedback on student understanding

• Allow students to contribute materials to the public display to support classroom discussion

• Take advantage of flexibility of digital ink to support rich communication

Classroom Presenter is free for educational and non-commercial use. It is available from:www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/

For more information contact: Professor Richard AndersonDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Washingtonanderson@cs.washington.edu

1. Instructor displays a slide with an exercise for the students to work

3. Instructor receives student answers in a film strip view for preview

4. Instructor selects student submission to show on public display for discussion

Presentation slides designed for use with digital ink

Student Submissions

Classroom activities from pilot use of the system

Classroom Presenter• Tablet PC based classroom interaction

system

• Supports inking on slides to integrate slide based content with digital ink

• Student devices may be used to make contributions to the instructor which can be shown to the class

• Designed for classroom use

• Embedded instructor notes

• High quality digital ink

• Flexible navigation features

• Ability to capture and export student and instructor writing

• Used in a wireless classroom

• Build to top of ConferenceXP 3.1

Data Structures Curriculum• Develop slides to support ink-enabled

curriculum

• Lecture slides designed for inking

• Student submission exercises

• Deploy and test materials in University of Washington courses (CSE 326, CSE 421)

• Refine Tablet PC based pedagogy

• Develop best practices guide

• Distribute course materials