1. Zdeslav Hrepic Fort Hays State University Physics Department

2. Tablet PC Intro Gem from Ken  http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/ http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/ Presentation: The Benefits of Tablet PC’s for Educators  http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/edutablet.ppt http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/tablet/edutablet.ppt

3. Overview  Tablet PC as a stand alone teaching tool  Beyond the fancy blackboard: The guiding principles  Defining the “killer app” through abilities  In search of the killer app … presenting candidates  Laptop vs. Tablet

4. Short intro – encountering the tablet  Fall 2004: Saw applied at “New faculty workshop” (at University of Maryland, for physics faculty in first two years of tenure track)  Early Spring of 2005 Grant resources (Paul Adams) available to buy equipment Bought clickers and tablet  Spring, Summer, Fall 2005 Used in Physical Science, Physics II and Atomic physics classes

5. Using Tablet: added possibilities Annotations + Wireless  Walking around the classroom – attention, interaction  Selecting “presenters” – expectation and alert Equipotential Curves for a Charge Pair

6. Creating versatile presentations Interference of light passing thru 2 slits n=1 dark n=0 dark n=1 dark n=1 bright n=0 dark n=0 bright n=1 bright n=2 bright Light from single source hits both slits in phase - slits behave as 2 in-phase sources

7. Versatile presentations The Michelson-Morley Experiment

8. Derivations Simultaneity and clock Synchronization

10.  Eg: A Young’s interference experiment is performed with blue-green argon laser light. The separation between the slits is 0.500 mm, and the interference pattern on a screen 3.30m away shows the first maximum 3.40mm from the center of the pattern. What is the wavelength of argon laser light? Problem solving

11.  Eg: A Young’s interference experiment is performed with blue-green argon laser light. The separation between the slits is 0.500 mm, and the interference pattern on a screen 3.30m away shows the first maximum 3.40mm from the center of the pattern. What is the wavelength of argon laser light?

12. Tablet – specific demo software  http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/interwritesoftware.htm

13. Interwrite software  Ready templates for variety of courses  Screen capturing needed to capture custom templates/pictures or web applications

14. Beyond the “ordinary”  Gavin’s urge to push beyond already possible... or … “Yeah, but …”  Prompted to start by defining guiding principles (Spring 2005):  Engagement  Collaboration  In class learning  →Devised simple but possibly effective teaching strategy – wireless tablet specific

15. Integrating Engagement, Collaboration and IN class learning

20. The killer app  Enables SELECTIVE streaming of inputs (files, text, drawings, pictures, sound) in all directions in real and virtual classroom.  Instructor and participants see the user list and can select whom to work with in a break out sessions – pick and share common files.  The selected groups work together on a same or different problem - markups show up on all screens within the group simultaneously AND not elsewhere.  Separate windows in instructor’s view show participant list and files  The instructor can pick one file at the time and show it to the rest of the class or give targeted feedback.  Students can than download their work as well as workouts of other students who worked on other problems.  On the BB discussion point: Add to the whish list

21. In search for the killer app - candidates  Microsoft’s Live Meeting Compatible with variety of files, nice interface Primarily for one way flow, saving whole meeting easy but not specific parts  Groove Virtual Office one way streaming – corporate meeting oriented application  Blackboard Virtual Classroom (one) shared electronic whiteboard, file and saving issues  Microsoft’s One Note (one) shared electronic whiteboard, file and saving issues  UW (University of Washington) Classroom presenter Complicated and limited file managing, otherwise great  Lotus virtual Classroom great promises, great price

22. Live meeting instructional presentation  z@hrepic.com  S7X6ft  Your first meeting has been created for you with an instructional presentation already inserted to help you learn about Microsoft Office Live Meeting. To go directly into your first meeting, visit:  https://www.liveMeeting.com/cc/lmtrial2005/present?cn=Zdeslav+Hrepic&id=z.quickstart&pw=p855dh https://www.liveMeeting.com/cc/lmtrial2005/present?cn=Zdeslav+Hrepic&id=z.quickstart&pw=p855dh

23. Live meeting

24. Participant Management in Live Meeting  When you move the mouse to the upper left- hand corner of the screen, a menu sidebar appears to the left of the application-sharing session that lets you see who's attending, switch to a presentation or another application, pause sharing, and assign control to other attendees.

25. During and after the meeting  Interactive Tools:  Whiteboards, text slides, polls, web slides, snapshots, annotations, chat, question manager, audience seating chart, mood indicators)  Recording and Reporting  Live Meeting Recording captures everything in the meeting including the live demonstrations, annotations, notes, visuals and even live web slides.  Live Meeting lets users quickly and easily record and save a copy of their meeting.  Recordings are automatically hosted from the Live Meeting service making them instantly available with the click of a URL.  http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/3/803f9ba6-5e12-4b40-84d9- d8a91073e3dc/LiveMeetingGuide.doc http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/0/3/803f9ba6-5e12-4b40-84d9- d8a91073e3dc/LiveMeetingGuide.doc

26. Groove Virtual Office http://www.groove.net/home/index.cfm

27. UW Classroom Presenter  Video presentation:  http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/videos/asx/Presenter_1M.asx http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/videos/asx/Presenter_1M.asx  File uploading – need to create a Slide Deck (.csd), individual work on the tablet, file saving managed by instructor  http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/ http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/

28. Lotus Virtual Classroom - A promising candidate (brochure promises much…)  With Lotus Virtual Classroom one can … Create assessments and surveys. Deliver a presentation. Demonstrate software. Use audio-video to add more interactivity to virtual sessions. Register participants online. Send additional reading materials to students before and after a classroom session. Catalog learning materials, presentations and content. Track attendance and assessment results. ftp://ftp.lotus.com/pub/lotusweb/product/G325_2016_01_FINAL.pdf

29. But most importantly with VC one can …  “Assign participants to breakout sessions for small group work … Initiate breakout sessions to divide students into virtual groups and monitor their progress using instant messaging.”  “Share any application running on either their desktop or a student’s desktop”  Supports 35+ file formats  No demo version available Price: 76,375.00 per processor

30. Other: Discipline specific applications - Physics  Magic Paper will let computer tools capture and understand ideas that are today captured in pencil on scraps of paper.  http://icampus.mit.edu/MagicPaper/

31. Other: Discipline specific applications - Physics  Microsoft Physics Illustrator for Tablet PC A motion simulator for the Tablet PC that demonstrates physics by using objects that are drawn by the user. Simply draw two-dimensional bodies, connect them in various ways and apply forces, then watch as animation makes the bodies move, collide, and interact. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56347faf-a639-4f3b-9b87-1487fd4b5a53&displaylang=en

32. Technical issues  Unstable connectivity this semester  Tech support people Great attitude Every effort made to make prompt fixes Overloaded and understaffed

33. Laptop vs Tablet  For these methodologies - Students also need tablets, not laptops  Decision might be area-dependent  Sciences, Engineering, Arts - Tablet PC incomparably more useful than a laptop alone – extra cost well justified  Might not be as necessary in social sciences and languages.

34. More Information? Feedback? Zdeslav Hrepic: zhrepic@fhsu.eduzhrepic@fhsu.edu