What I can do with a pen that I can not do with a mouse Steven C. Myers Department of Economics, The University of Akron For presentation at the Celebration of Learning and Teaching The University of Akron April 14, 2006

Transitions Remember getting your first laptop after being used to a desktop? Do you now haul your laptop home and to class? –You are a mobile worker / teacher / student if so. –But so you also haul along stacks of paper, a text book or two and a few folders of notes or a large notebook?

Digital Ink Tablet PC is a Laptop plus a pen! –Slates –Hybrids –Convertibles The Pen is the mouse! (and you can use a mouse too). Best, but not only way to add a pen –SMART Smartboards and Sympodium –Wacom or Aptiek Tablet

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What can I do with a pen I can not do with a mouse? Annotate and originate live presentations Read and markup on the screen Grade electronic submissions Take handwritten notes and organize Use new and exciting software that is designed for the pen. Use the tablet as an input screen, and a second monitor, keyboard and mouse to have a desktop on steroids.

Annotate and originate live presentations PowerPoint, but active and interactive Presentations – anything on my screen plus anything I want to write projected –Wired via VGA cable or –Wireless to the projector Microsoft Journal Microsoft One Note MS Word, Excel, Outlook all accept ink Adobe Acrobat

Other Presentation and Interactive Software DyKnow.com UW Classroom Presenter Macromedia Breeze Presentation and note taking by students.

Reading and Markup Microsoft Research's Tablet PC and Curriculum, 2004 in MS JournalMicrosoft Research's Tablet PC and Curriculum, 2004 Article in pdf, from journal “marking up”Article in pdf, from journal Filling out forms example digitally signedexample digitally signed

Electronic Grading demand_suppply_exercise_marked.jnt in Journaldemand_suppply_exercise_marked.jnt module2g_questions.pdf as returned in pdfmodule2g_questions.pdf Let’s grade one. writing assignment printed to journal.jnt writing assignment printed to journal.jnt

Analog to Digital Input Store and Forward Scanned to pdf, jpg, tif, etc. faxed to digital (eFax) Document management system – your copier! – document serverdocument server Pen tablet Tablet PC the professor send via weblink (cgi script) upload to server upload to CMS (WebCT) Important: Naming Conventions

Taking Notes Journal One Note –Organization –Handwriting can be searched –Handwriting can be converted –Can record voice with note taking

Virtual Office Hours And offer Collaboration tools Macromedia Breeze

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