Electronic tablets

Grayson Snydergsnyder@buffalo.edu645-2363-ext 212

GTCO Interwrite Schoolpad : wireless electronic tablet

electronic stylus rocker armon stylus = left or rightmouse button

writing and drawing tools

approx $ 450

http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/interwriteschoolsuite_casestudies.htm

USE OF ELECTRONIC TABLETS IN CASE STUDIES

Examples of uses of the tablet :

1). Portable overhead projector : filling in missing parts of textbook figures

2). Annotation of any Windows screen : writing & drawing tools

3). Drag-and-drop matching exercises in Powerpoint create mode

4). Making audio/video recordings of lectures or Internet animations

Portable overhead projector

Replacing missing elements of textbook figures

Eraser tool

Use Microsoft Windows PAINT program to edit textbook figure

Write glucose, Na+, K+, ATP, or ADP at the beginning and end of each arrow.

Put values of Ka ( 7 x 10-3 , 1 x 10-7 , 5 x 10-13 ) into the table.

Complete the two graphs for the reaction X Y in the presence of a catalyst.

ADVANTAGES :

1). Don’t have to go back and forth between computer projected Powerpoints and overhead projector transparencies

2). Students feel more anonymous (not standing at overhead projector facing their classmates

3). Better projection (overhead may be smaller, or skewed and out of focus in some regions)

ANNOTATION OF ANY WINDOWS SCREEN

new functionality : annotations made with the tablet

red pen selected

tablet’stool bar

choose pen function :draw a box

choose line thickness

choose pen color

box addedwith the tablet

DRAG AND DROP EXERCISES :

in Powerpoint creation mode

SUN

Arrange the planets in order of increasing distance from the sun.Work in the order of the visible spectrum : green -> yellow -> red .Correct answers will cover up the colored spot.

Picture(at green)

Picture(at red)

front (top)

back (bottom)

ORDER

Picture(at yellow)

Three pictures

Three target locations

1. Commercial set (Vis-Ed)

2. Paper version : Business card stock paper, 11x17 templates

3. Electronic tablet : drop-and-drag Powerpoint

4. Electronic tablet : Flash animation

BIOCHEMISTRY FLASHCARDS PROJECT

COMPLETED PATHWAY

11 structures : white10 enzymes : blue 5 favorable energy factors : yellow 4 unfavorable energy factors : red 5 comments : orange

glucose

Arrange molecular structures in their order in glycolysis.Work in the order of the visible spectrum : green-yellow-orange-red. When ALL choices are correct, all the spots will disappear.

HINT : glucose does not have a phosphate P group.

FLASH PLAYER VERSION : by Don Trainor

Match a base to G at lower left.Small goes with large.Donor (NH) goes with acceptor (N: or O:).

A = , C= , G= , T=

Top sides

Bottom sides

CNBr cuts on right side of Met (brown)Trypsin cuts on right side of Lys or Arg (red)

METHOD OF OVERLAPPING PEPTIDES

Fragments made by trypsin(cuts on right side of red type)

Fragments made by CNBr(cuts on right side of brown type)

MAKING AUDIO-VIDEO RECORDINGS

Video : anything happening on your computer screenAudio : speak into a microphone attached to your computer

Applications :Copying Internet animations that can’t be downloaded

Taping your lectures

Animation with small size : not adjustable not able to download

Tablet window : start and stop the recording

Tablet window : select full or partial screen capture

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER : with 2x expansion

view - video size - 200%

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbioac/biochem/condense.htm

Insert movie into Powerpoint : then expand size to full scale

UB’s technology classrooms :

Current : University will generate audio tape recording of your lecture Instructor generates a beeping sound when changing Powerpoint slides Audio file and Powerpoint lecture file posted at course web site Students download the two files and try to synchronize beeps and slides

Spring ’08 : University will generate an audio tape of the lecture, and generate a video tape of everything projected from the computer, and synchronize audio with video to make a movie Movie posted at course web site

Electronic tablet : 3 mb / min = 150 mb / lecture Almost too large to download from home with slow modem

Powerpoints with embedded audio tracks : 10 mb for textbook figures 40 more mb for sound tracks 50 mb / lecture : either 3 CD’s, or 1 DVD

DNA movie : taped using Rastop modeling program

ADDING ANIMATIONS TO POWERPOINT

1. Taping your own voice

2. Traveling cursor - movies viewed at home can look like classroom lectures

3. Mimicking “smart-board” effects (also given by the tablet tools) - window shade effect - spotlight

RECORDING SOUNDTRACKS WITHIN POWERPOINT

ANIMATION SEQUENCE

Play a sound trackDissolve in a rectanglePlay a movie (.avi)Slide the rectangle along a linePlay a sound trackDissolve out the rectangle

Based on insert (Ch 3), p. 57, Pratt & Cornely, Wiley (2004)

“household appliances”

WINDOW SHADE EFFECT : PROGRESSIVELY DISSOLVE OUT GRAY STRIPS

Drag yellow point toshrink or expandthe center

SPOTLIGHT EFFECT : THE DONUT SHAPE

INTEGRATING EFFECTS IN A SINGLE LECTURE

Within a single Powerpoint slide show1. Information slides 2. Clicker slides GTCO Interwrite PRS or Turning Point (embedded within Powerpoint)3. Replacing components of textbook figures (traveling “overhead” projector)4. Internet animations : movies of movies5. Temporarily change window to another program without losing clicker data

Powerpoint creation mode6. Drag-and-drop applications

Rastop molecular modeling7. Annotations possible with tablet’s write/draw tools