[ED-TECH] Lunch and Learn: Creating On-Screen and On-Line Demonstrations: Teaching with a Tablet PC

Ed-Tech list members,

Do you work out problems during class? Whether you currently use the board, an overhead projector, or a document camera, come and see how a Tablet PC can be used as a projected writing surface and how the entire process can be captured for later viewing by the students. Below is the complete description of the Lunch and Learn session where I will demonstrate the teaching features of a Tablet PC. After using one for three years now, I wouldn't want to have anything else. Attend this session Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 12:20 PM - 1:10 PM, Whitten University Center, Room 226 A/B (Flamingo Ballroom), to learn why. Lunch will be served. Registration is required, and limited. Use the On-Line Registration Form to register.

Bill Vilberg

305-284-3944

Creating On-Screen and On-Line Demonstrations: Teaching with a Tablet PC

William R. Vilberg
Instructional Advancement

How can we help students learn technical processes that require symbolic manipulation? For example, how can we help statistics students solve problems, music students arrange harmonies, English students rewrite paragraphs, and chemistry students balance equations?

One learning tool that we can provide is a step-by-step sample solution that the students can watch and listen to repeatedly. Such samples can easily be created using a Tablet PC and software such as Camtasia. The Tablet PC allows the instructor to write on the screen, just like on a piece of paper. The Camtasia software captures everything on the screen and everything the instructor says. The instructor works the problem while explaining what steps are being taken and why they are being taken, saves the recording, and makes it available on the Web for students to review as needed.

The same process can be used to capture entire lectures. Rather than working problems on the board, overhead, or document camera, work the problems on the Tablet PC. Everything can be shown in real time on a projector and also captured and made available for later viewing by the students so they can understand exactly what you did, how you did it, and how you explained it.

This presentation will demonstrate how the Tablet PC can support your teaching and help achieve student learning outcomes.

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
12:20 PM - 1:10 PM
Whitten University Center
Room 226 A/B (Flamingo Ballroom A/B)

Lunch will be served. Registration is required, and limited. Use the On-Line Registration Form to register.