http://www.microsoft.com/business/peopleready/overview/greatestasset.mspx
Monday, April 17, 2006
Get your feet wet with AJAX
This tutorial is geared towards PHP developers, assuming no JavaScript knowledge. (Non-Programmer + This tutorial = Nice)
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kassemi20050606.php3
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/kassemi20050606.php3
An Intro to AJAX (& then a sales pitch)
This is a sales pitch video, but it explains quite well AJAX within the big picture of web development.
http://www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?registered=on&pid=57
http://www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?registered=on&pid=57
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
WIPTE 2006: Origami
At the Microsoft booth at WIPTE 06. Eliot was kind enough to snap a picture and email it back in a snap. Eliot was the MSFT rep. Cool conference!
Friday, April 7, 2006
WIPTE 2006: GoBinder for NoteTaking
Vermont Academy, Small & Beautiful, with special programs for learning challenged and non-Ivyish students.
Agile GoBinder... Outlooky Application, that is more than just PIM.
Its like the marriage of PIM applications and LMS. This marriage can produce many pffsprings, but this is an ofspring that is 'PersonalLMS'.
More like OneNote+MS Outlook Calendar
the actual LMS is Moodle. GoBinder and Moodle are unable to talk right now. GoBinder SDK is available. Moodle is open source. so its just waiting for a matchmaker to marry them.
GoBinder is possibly working on linking to WebCT, Blackboard but Moodle may not be their priority right now. I mean, if they did develop it, that would be cool, because a lot of institutions would love to go into a free LMS and then GoBinder sales would go up.
---just me 10 cents from me fantasy as the GoBinder Strategic manager.
Features:
- Calendar/Tasks etc.
- Searchable database
- Ink/Text combo
- Scheduling/Gantt Chart
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: TabletCasting. Agile is working on capturing audio synced with notes. Now were talking business Baby! plus, GoBinder is free for faculty.
Agile GoBinder... Outlooky Application, that is more than just PIM.
Its like the marriage of PIM applications and LMS. This marriage can produce many pffsprings, but this is an ofspring that is 'PersonalLMS'.
More like OneNote+MS Outlook Calendar
the actual LMS is Moodle. GoBinder and Moodle are unable to talk right now. GoBinder SDK is available. Moodle is open source. so its just waiting for a matchmaker to marry them.
GoBinder is possibly working on linking to WebCT, Blackboard but Moodle may not be their priority right now. I mean, if they did develop it, that would be cool, because a lot of institutions would love to go into a free LMS and then GoBinder sales would go up.
---just me 10 cents from me fantasy as the GoBinder Strategic manager.
Features:
- Calendar/Tasks etc.
- Searchable database
- Ink/Text combo
- Scheduling/Gantt Chart
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT: TabletCasting. Agile is working on capturing audio synced with notes. Now were talking business Baby! plus, GoBinder is free for faculty.
WIPTE 2006: Utilizing the Tablet PC to Enhance Group Work in a Learning Community
PACE U is in Brooklyn. They are seeing whats going to happen if TabletPC were given to freshmen and see its effect on groupwork.
They were also funded by MSFT Tablet PC grant, bought 5 Tablet PCs with it.
Computer/Humanities profs collaborated to create a new course
Content of the collaborative course in Computers and History:
How are computers (esp Security) potrayed in Movies?
There were other interesting things they were looking at as threads from the above topics (Security arrangement at Wall St.; Computer/Forensics)
**** for meeting w/Nallee-dmendez-CRLT
23 Students / 5 Tablet PCs
1 Tablet PC: 4-5 Students do group activities during class time only.
Sometimes Tablets were checked out on the weekends by individuals who were more artistically inclined. this was allowed to allow individual inking skill development.
They were using Windows Journal (raised some eyebrows amongst the audience). (People generally use Office OneNote with an LMS.)
LMS by Pace: Blackboard
Activities for evaluation:
Peer reviews: Presentations, Essayes, ProgrammingCode
Method (Non Tablet Based): 4-5 people group, computer operator is not the author, others giving feedback. This did not work. So they assigned Driver+Navigator to help driver with collection of feedback & annotation, while the peer review was in progress.
Method (Tablet PC)
So experiments were set up, read the paper for more info.
Giving the impression that the evaluation specialist was a group-dynamist rather than a instructional technologist (verify in paper).
Outputs:
Develops Leadership?
Increases Collaboration?
Helps Decision-making?
Helps non-classtime communication?
April 26/27 TabletPC user conference at Pace University
http://csis.pace.edu/csis/news/tablepcweb.htm
Questions which were not asked in this research:
Is the enhanced productivity a novelty effect or is it a true, sustainable engagement.
Do students pay attention to their work or get distracted by the technology?
They won the 2005 Tablet PC award again.
They were also funded by MSFT Tablet PC grant, bought 5 Tablet PCs with it.
Computer/Humanities profs collaborated to create a new course
Content of the collaborative course in Computers and History:
How are computers (esp Security) potrayed in Movies?
There were other interesting things they were looking at as threads from the above topics (Security arrangement at Wall St.; Computer/Forensics)
**** for meeting w/Nallee-dmendez-CRLT
23 Students / 5 Tablet PCs
1 Tablet PC: 4-5 Students do group activities during class time only.
Sometimes Tablets were checked out on the weekends by individuals who were more artistically inclined. this was allowed to allow individual inking skill development.
They were using Windows Journal (raised some eyebrows amongst the audience). (People generally use Office OneNote with an LMS.)
LMS by Pace: Blackboard
Activities for evaluation:
Peer reviews: Presentations, Essayes, ProgrammingCode
Method (Non Tablet Based): 4-5 people group, computer operator is not the author, others giving feedback. This did not work. So they assigned Driver+Navigator to help driver with collection of feedback & annotation, while the peer review was in progress.
Method (Tablet PC)
So experiments were set up, read the paper for more info.
Giving the impression that the evaluation specialist was a group-dynamist rather than a instructional technologist (verify in paper).
Outputs:
Develops Leadership?
Increases Collaboration?
Helps Decision-making?
Helps non-classtime communication?
April 26/27 TabletPC user conference at Pace University
http://csis.pace.edu/csis/news/tablepcweb.htm
Questions which were not asked in this research:
Is the enhanced productivity a novelty effect or is it a true, sustainable engagement.
Do students pay attention to their work or get distracted by the technology?
They won the 2005 Tablet PC award again.
WIPTE 2006: Lunch, the way it should be...
Interesting lunch with folks from Virginia Tech and Clemson U.
VirginiaTech engineering is making TabletPC a requirement for incoming freshmen in their engineering school. This is their plan for supporting the technology, as per a very concerned member of their community attending WIPTE:
" Uh, Um... wha..? "
They should be scared... very scared. This kinda makes me realize, all those anti-technology forces in my world, they are doing a good job of preventing such "accidental" impositions. I feel sorry for the incoming freshmen. If I were a journalist, I would follow up this lead with an investigation. he he.
anyhoo, we moved on to an interesting conversation about microsoft and the good stuff it was doing to the world:
- TabletPC SDK - free, simple and easy to use.
- ConferenceXP - free, opensource
- supporting this first conference
We discussed the way Microsoft has made attempts to change the ways in which the world looks at it, especially geekdom.
Now when presenters take unjustified potshots at MSFT. Makes the presenters sound dated. Then we marvelled at the internal process improvement video "If Microsoft Designed the iPod:"
Linked from youtube.com:
VirginiaTech engineering is making TabletPC a requirement for incoming freshmen in their engineering school. This is their plan for supporting the technology, as per a very concerned member of their community attending WIPTE:
" Uh, Um... wha..? "
They should be scared... very scared. This kinda makes me realize, all those anti-technology forces in my world, they are doing a good job of preventing such "accidental" impositions. I feel sorry for the incoming freshmen. If I were a journalist, I would follow up this lead with an investigation. he he.
anyhoo, we moved on to an interesting conversation about microsoft and the good stuff it was doing to the world:
- TabletPC SDK - free, simple and easy to use.
- ConferenceXP - free, opensource
- supporting this first conference
We discussed the way Microsoft has made attempts to change the ways in which the world looks at it, especially geekdom.
Now when presenters take unjustified potshots at MSFT. Makes the presenters sound dated. Then we marvelled at the internal process improvement video "If Microsoft Designed the iPod:"
Linked from youtube.com:
WIPTE 2006: My Post Lunch Agenda
1pm Session
I'll be attending the Utilizing the Tablet PC to Enhance Group Work in a Learning Community presentation and try to seek answers to the many project design questions. This is good education for future grant writing, I am assuming. These people are winners of the Microsoft Tablet PC grant.
This analysis focuses on an experiment in which Tablet PCs were introduced as both a central feature of the pedagogy and as a catalyst for group work in a Learning Community...
Link to Paper
I'm going to miss the DePauw U presentation on deployment of DyKnow on thier 2300 student campus.
2pm
I'll be learning about Agilix GoBinder, a note-taking related solution on Tablet PCs.
3pm
Integrating Tablet PC Technology into the Dimensions of Learning Pedagogical Framework - presentation title speaks for itself. Interesting from the point of view of learning evaluation, education research.
I'll be attending the Utilizing the Tablet PC to Enhance Group Work in a Learning Community presentation and try to seek answers to the many project design questions. This is good education for future grant writing, I am assuming. These people are winners of the Microsoft Tablet PC grant.
This analysis focuses on an experiment in which Tablet PCs were introduced as both a central feature of the pedagogy and as a catalyst for group work in a Learning Community...
Link to Paper
I'm going to miss the DePauw U presentation on deployment of DyKnow on thier 2300 student campus.
2pm
I'll be learning about Agilix GoBinder, a note-taking related solution on Tablet PCs.
3pm
Integrating Tablet PC Technology into the Dimensions of Learning Pedagogical Framework - presentation title speaks for itself. Interesting from the point of view of learning evaluation, education research.
WIPTE 2006: Interdisciplinary Project Using TabletPC
So the speaker just went into a monolog, monotone... and I could catch a few words: laptops, iPaq... and someone asked at the end of the presentation... "Um, what is an iPaq?"
that summarises the sad state of the presentation. Its a powerful and good project, but there could have been a different presenter to the project.
Its how they say "On Coffee"... jittery and scary presentation.
Good stuff: Its an ambitious project. Java application to build project management features by a team of undergrads and profs. MS Project wasn't good enough on multiple devices.
that summarises the sad state of the presentation. Its a powerful and good project, but there could have been a different presenter to the project.
Its how they say "On Coffee"... jittery and scary presentation.
Good stuff: Its an ambitious project. Java application to build project management features by a team of undergrads and profs. MS Project wasn't good enough on multiple devices.
WIPTE 2006: High Schoolers Developing Apps Using TabletPC SDK
Firstly: this session has a wow! factor.
Rapid Prototyping with the Tablet SDK – Software Development Experiences for High School Students
Authors: Jeffrey L. Popyack
Dept. of Computer Science
Drexel University
& More Authors
There is a special program for talented high schoolers in PA called the "PA Governor's Sch of Info Technlgy" (PGSIT).
Pretty strong line-up of classes. (Visual Studio programming, distributed computing and networking, HCI, Information Ethics, S/W project management).
Tour of the TabletSDK
>>> C# is the language of choice.
>>> Lots of good examples to work with in the SDK (Freely available from MSFT)
>>> Very light code for these simple applications.
>>> e.g. Its so easy - a simple ToString methods converts ink to text!
>>>
Where did the inspiration come from? From the author's trip to TechEd conference.
Rapid Prototyping with the Tablet SDK – Software Development Experiences for High School Students
Authors: Jeffrey L. Popyack
Dept. of Computer Science
Drexel University
& More Authors
There is a special program for talented high schoolers in PA called the "PA Governor's Sch of Info Technlgy" (PGSIT).
Pretty strong line-up of classes. (Visual Studio programming, distributed computing and networking, HCI, Information Ethics, S/W project management).
Tour of the TabletSDK
>>> C# is the language of choice.
>>> Lots of good examples to work with in the SDK (Freely available from MSFT)
>>> Very light code for these simple applications.
>>> e.g. Its so easy - a simple ToString methods converts ink to text!
>>>
Where did the inspiration come from? From the author's trip to TechEd conference.
WIPTE 2006: Friday Morning Keynote (Day 2)
"You higher ed people should tell us - you want incoming students to use TabletPCs"
This is an urge by the morning's keynote speaker.
Joel Backon
Director of Technology and History Teacher
Choate Rosemary Hall
It was a misdirected address, given the crowd which was largely higher ed. However, higher ed needs to listen to a new perspective. His attempts at "bringing down the system" were motivated by popular fiction works. I can't even recount how many weak sources he tried to quote to motivate the crowd. They may be revered in some circles, but did not seem to "OOh! and AAh!" the crowd.
I or anyone could have made the same mistake in presentation situations. Its forgivable. I am not big at criticism, but sometimes its sad to see a Keynote not do a Keynote's job.
I look forward to keynotes as being inspirational. Giving hints for a future path. Something fresh, connected to established norms.
"I wish there were handwriting recognition that would do math equation" --AAAAARGH! People in the audi scoffed... which he instantly picked up and said something like.... "yea, works for me but not for my Math teachers...".
I am no Microsoft employee, but if there are MSFT reps in the audience, the speaker feels it's open season for hunting. Picking on easy targets may not create a positive impression. Beating up MSFT employee for audience entertainment is an aging technique.
Pedagogical dwelling on note-taking was quite enlightening. I could connect with this part. But again, the argument had a predictable follow up. Given all the sessions yesterday, the tone could have been "So, hey, you do this" and move on. There is no need to expand on solutions which have marinated our brains yesterday.
Why am i so crnky? Is he making me cranky? I am not usually cranky.
In general, I think we need fresh thinkers, not product peddlers. Standford's Mechanical Engineering professor was fresh and inspiring to listen to. Yesterday's keynote from Clemson U was engaging.
"Why do people call me to follow up an email?" Huh!!!
"The good way to sell your product is to showcase successful users" - Sounded right until he said - "This is a message only to vendors in the room" - Huh! 2 minutes ago he was prasing DyKnow as the killer app of TabletPCs.
"Standardize your pens, you vendors" - This made good sense. Good Keynotey stuff.
Would I invite this guy to speak at my party? Not in his current avatar. Is is strong? No, weak arguments.
This is an urge by the morning's keynote speaker.
Joel Backon
Director of Technology and History Teacher
Choate Rosemary Hall
It was a misdirected address, given the crowd which was largely higher ed. However, higher ed needs to listen to a new perspective. His attempts at "bringing down the system" were motivated by popular fiction works. I can't even recount how many weak sources he tried to quote to motivate the crowd. They may be revered in some circles, but did not seem to "OOh! and AAh!" the crowd.
I or anyone could have made the same mistake in presentation situations. Its forgivable. I am not big at criticism, but sometimes its sad to see a Keynote not do a Keynote's job.
I look forward to keynotes as being inspirational. Giving hints for a future path. Something fresh, connected to established norms.
"I wish there were handwriting recognition that would do math equation" --AAAAARGH! People in the audi scoffed... which he instantly picked up and said something like.... "yea, works for me but not for my Math teachers...".
I am no Microsoft employee, but if there are MSFT reps in the audience, the speaker feels it's open season for hunting. Picking on easy targets may not create a positive impression. Beating up MSFT employee for audience entertainment is an aging technique.
Pedagogical dwelling on note-taking was quite enlightening. I could connect with this part. But again, the argument had a predictable follow up. Given all the sessions yesterday, the tone could have been "So, hey, you do this" and move on. There is no need to expand on solutions which have marinated our brains yesterday.
Why am i so crnky? Is he making me cranky? I am not usually cranky.
In general, I think we need fresh thinkers, not product peddlers. Standford's Mechanical Engineering professor was fresh and inspiring to listen to. Yesterday's keynote from Clemson U was engaging.
"Why do people call me to follow up an email?" Huh!!!
"The good way to sell your product is to showcase successful users" - Sounded right until he said - "This is a message only to vendors in the room" - Huh! 2 minutes ago he was prasing DyKnow as the killer app of TabletPCs.
"Standardize your pens, you vendors" - This made good sense. Good Keynotey stuff.
Would I invite this guy to speak at my party? Not in his current avatar. Is is strong? No, weak arguments.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
WIPTE 2006: TabletPC Give Aways: I won a Tablet PC!!!!
YESSSSS! I am a winner of a Tablet PC.
I want to thank my....
I want to thank my....
WIPTE 2006: Corp Panel w/Online Blog
4pm
So the corporate panel is about to begin and there is a real-time, online blog:
http://wipte.blogspot.com
Jane Prey's 5 Minutes from Microsoft invites creative ideas
4 14pm
HP's Jim Vanides: "Technology is about what students produce, not what students consume" - from one of his interactions in K-12 schools.
4 17pm
DyKnow's Laura Small
The history of DyKnow and its wide application & experience. The product is mature and so is the service.
4 20pm
HP has funded tabletPC studies in Italy and Australia in fields of Nursing...
4 36pm
Any new Ink Features in Vista?
Elliot from MSFT "Vista is Coolness"
- Added Ink Analysis APIs (Uncharted, no books available)
- Text Recognition, Hndwriting Personalization (90s technology from handhelds)
- discontiguous selections in file folders (automating Ctrl+Click) with AJAX style selection.
4 45pm
Q to Panel: What is the 5 year vision?
one gem answer (MSFT): Desktop's survival is threatened. February was the first time that laptop sales exceeded desktop sales.
4 57pm
Annotation is golden. Path to annotation (animated annotations) is Platinum. -- HP's Jim
So the corporate panel is about to begin and there is a real-time, online blog:
http://wipte.blogspot.com
Jane Prey's 5 Minutes from Microsoft invites creative ideas
4 14pm
HP's Jim Vanides: "Technology is about what students produce, not what students consume" - from one of his interactions in K-12 schools.
4 17pm
DyKnow's Laura Small
The history of DyKnow and its wide application & experience. The product is mature and so is the service.
4 20pm
HP has funded tabletPC studies in Italy and Australia in fields of Nursing...
4 36pm
Any new Ink Features in Vista?
Elliot from MSFT "Vista is Coolness"
- Added Ink Analysis APIs (Uncharted, no books available)
- Text Recognition, Hndwriting Personalization (90s technology from handhelds)
- discontiguous selections in file folders (automating Ctrl+Click) with AJAX style selection.
4 45pm
Q to Panel: What is the 5 year vision?
one gem answer (MSFT): Desktop's survival is threatened. February was the first time that laptop sales exceeded desktop sales.
4 57pm
Annotation is golden. Path to annotation (animated annotations) is Platinum. -- HP's Jim
WIPTE 2006: DyKnow DyKnow everywhere
It is high time that I learnt about DyKnow... its been a subject of discussion and expenditure in many areas.
This particular session is The Calf Path*: One University's Experience with Pen-enabled Technologies where a Title III Strengthening Institutions grant for $1.7 million focused on infusing technology into general education courses was awarded to UCA in October 2001.
Here is the full paper from U of Central Arkansas:
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/wipte/Papers/cone_charlotte.pdf
So, what's new for me? Not the technology but this animal that I encountered: A title III grant:
Having seen the Winona State presentation and then this presentation, it looks like smaller institutions have much more maneuverability, as Universities. As a University, UM is big and decentralized and a lot will depend on how our decentralized units choose to believe and think. the eLearning retreat should be a critical milestone - no points for saying that.
This particular session is The Calf Path*: One University's Experience with Pen-enabled Technologies where a Title III Strengthening Institutions grant for $1.7 million focused on infusing technology into general education courses was awarded to UCA in October 2001.
Here is the full paper from U of Central Arkansas:
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/wipte/Papers/cone_charlotte.pdf
So, what's new for me? Not the technology but this animal that I encountered: A title III grant:
The purpose of the Title III grant is to accomplish a twofold goal: to infuse technology into instruction while simultaneously enhancing interaction among all classroom participants.
Having seen the Winona State presentation and then this presentation, it looks like smaller institutions have much more maneuverability, as Universities. As a University, UM is big and decentralized and a lot will depend on how our decentralized units choose to believe and think. the eLearning retreat should be a critical milestone - no points for saying that.
WIPTE 2006: TabletPC Utopia: 100% TabletPC Deplymnt
Ken Graetz is director of distance at Winona State, MN
His job is to make all these people use them:
they are not pilot testing - everyone (staff + students) have one! Whoa?
Background:
7500 tablets deplyed currently working with Gateway (6000 undergrads, 1000 grads)
Students/Faculty offered choice: Mac iBook or Gateway? 3% chose iMacs.
M275s were the starting Gateway. Now replacing them with M285.
50% of faculty integrated Tablets in their instruction. Using OneNote instead of the projector.
LMS is http://www.desire2learn.com/
The Pedagogy:
- Turn in statistics homework as one file, which is a blended mode file with text, handwriting, screen captures from SPSS etc.
- the idea is that the homework is being turned in as it should have been with complex formulae, SPSS graphs and text as one digital file
- Used dropbox feature of LMS (D2L)
- Grading using digital ink.
Trends:
58% assignment submission used Word
40% assignment used OneNote
Many students stopped using OneNote
--- Why? Less familiarity
--- No training in how to set up notebooks in OneNote
--- Mis-submitting personal notes due to lack of traiing (Homework + Mom's to-do list + grafitti) - Really funny!
His job is to make all these people use them:
they are not pilot testing - everyone (staff + students) have one! Whoa?
Background:
7500 tablets deplyed currently working with Gateway (6000 undergrads, 1000 grads)
Students/Faculty offered choice: Mac iBook or Gateway? 3% chose iMacs.
M275s were the starting Gateway. Now replacing them with M285.
50% of faculty integrated Tablets in their instruction. Using OneNote instead of the projector.
LMS is http://www.desire2learn.com/
The Pedagogy:
- Turn in statistics homework as one file, which is a blended mode file with text, handwriting, screen captures from SPSS etc.
- the idea is that the homework is being turned in as it should have been with complex formulae, SPSS graphs and text as one digital file
- Used dropbox feature of LMS (D2L)
- Grading using digital ink.
Trends:
58% assignment submission used Word
40% assignment used OneNote
Many students stopped using OneNote
--- Why? Less familiarity
--- No training in how to set up notebooks in OneNote
--- Mis-submitting personal notes due to lack of traiing (Homework + Mom's to-do list + grafitti) - Really funny!
WIPTE 2006: Does the Pen Really Matter / DyKnow Demo
DOES THE PEN REALLY MATTER?
David Mutchler, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/wipte/Papers/mutchler_david.pdf
Paper shows results from survey about things like, giving Tablets to students, use of Tablets for undergrads, some controlled studies of students using Tablet PCs.
Live interactive "Wiki" Whiteboard - DYKNOW - developed with a HP grant at
http://www.dyknow.com/
A live ice breaker excercises using DyKnow:
The client is free. Similar to classroom presenter.
David Mutchler, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/wipte/Papers/mutchler_david.pdf
Paper shows results from survey about things like, giving Tablets to students, use of Tablets for undergrads, some controlled studies of students using Tablet PCs.
Live interactive "Wiki" Whiteboard - DYKNOW - developed with a HP grant at
http://www.dyknow.com/
A live ice breaker excercises using DyKnow:
The client is free. Similar to classroom presenter.
WIPTE 2006: Some Take Aways: Tablet PC Recommendations
[From some brainstorming usin DyKnow]
Whats the best Tablet PC?
Electrovaya SC-3100 ($2100 – $2600) [& others]
Lenova X41 ($1800 - $1900) (IBM)
Whats the best Value Tablet PC?
HP TC4200 ($1550)
Gateway ($1000-1300)
Whats the best Tablet PC?
Electrovaya SC-3100 ($2100 – $2600) [& others]
Lenova X41 ($1800 - $1900) (IBM)
Whats the best Value Tablet PC?
HP TC4200 ($1550)
Gateway ($1000-1300)
WIPTE 2006: Ubiquitous Presenter - Classroom Presenter
Classroom Presenter & Ubiquitous Presenter
General
-- Very Hot technology!
-- Eliminates the need for clickers!
-- feedback is instant, anonymous, and
-- Very similar to centra's functionality with whiteboard and annotated slides
-- includes polling and instantaeous graphing of responses
-- Ubiquitous presentor is independent of ConferenceXP
-- Its a Java based technology (push tech?).
-- Instantaneous feedback is OK unless the cognitive load of the feedback on the instructor does not disable him!
Ubiquitous Presenter at UV
- Web based networking
- Supports PDA, Laptop, Cellphone,
- 3 Second polling
- They are providing server for use right now!!! http://up.ucsd.edu
- Summer they will release code for setting up our own server.
- Abilty to review later stroke by stroke
- Stores instructor work as well as student work.
- Ink – Requires Java
- Text Only version – enter text in boxes and move it around.
- Multiple choice – pop quizzes
- Student have the option of engagement:
o MC
o Text
o Draw
o Etc.
Paper – SIGCSE paper available through their digital library – GET IT
THEY WANT COLLABORATORS in various disciplines
No statistics yet on learning evaluation, they are open to collaborate on student learning.
Page hits increase steeply during the mid-terms. Actually 2 days before… and really between 12am and 9am before the midterm. – People are using it in CS classes in UCSD.
The review does not include audio, but they are interested in collaborating with people who could work with them to build those capabilities.
Interesting: Students go back and review other student submissions because they want to see how level is their playing field. They go back and see other student's submissions and gain self efficacy.
General
-- Very Hot technology!
-- Eliminates the need for clickers!
-- feedback is instant, anonymous, and
-- Very similar to centra's functionality with whiteboard and annotated slides
-- includes polling and instantaeous graphing of responses
-- Ubiquitous presentor is independent of ConferenceXP
-- Its a Java based technology (push tech?).
-- Instantaneous feedback is OK unless the cognitive load of the feedback on the instructor does not disable him!
Ubiquitous Presenter at UV
- Web based networking
- Supports PDA, Laptop, Cellphone,
- 3 Second polling
- They are providing server for use right now!!! http://up.ucsd.edu
- Summer they will release code for setting up our own server.
- Abilty to review later stroke by stroke
- Stores instructor work as well as student work.
- Ink – Requires Java
- Text Only version – enter text in boxes and move it around.
- Multiple choice – pop quizzes
- Student have the option of engagement:
o MC
o Text
o Draw
o Etc.
Paper – SIGCSE paper available through their digital library – GET IT
THEY WANT COLLABORATORS in various disciplines
No statistics yet on learning evaluation, they are open to collaborate on student learning.
Page hits increase steeply during the mid-terms. Actually 2 days before… and really between 12am and 9am before the midterm. – People are using it in CS classes in UCSD.
The review does not include audio, but they are interested in collaborating with people who could work with them to build those capabilities.
Interesting: Students go back and review other student submissions because they want to see how level is their playing field. They go back and see other student's submissions and gain self efficacy.
WIPTE 2006: Screencasting in Stanford
Ed Carryer - Mechanical Engineering - Stanford Univ
Used Acetate for 18 years - because loves annotations. Likes to whip out annotated overheads whenever students ask questions.
1989/90 SITN (Stanford Instr Television Network) started a course.
-- televised... ok
-- recorded... lots of review value
-- taught in an empty 200 capacity auditorium (similar to engineering's DL classroom).
-- PIP format
Students like it:
-- TIVO effect (watch later)
-- Review (watch again)
Revolution in Fall 2002:
- Camtasia (Persistent Ink)
- Co-teaching with a Powerpoint proficient co-instructor
- Tablet PC ended hand eye co-ordination issues with separate tablet (case for instructors who tape at home as against in class where sympodiums are available).
- Tablet Extensions for Microsoft Office.
Gave birth to “screencasting� in January 2003 (video captures of screen action)
- Started small – small class, changed a few lectures.
- Moved to screencasting entirely in Spring by notchng upto graduate class.
His choices in technology:
- 12� felt like an overhead, 10� was too small
- Felt need for more buttons, and need to turn of edge buttons.
- Recommends USB mics - on board soundcard is crap (just like our experience)
- He actually instructs in class wearing a headset mic.
- Produced Windows Media + Stanford’s Own Streaming Server
- 5 fps
It was interesting – when his Tablet crashed during the presentation, his keypad was useful to tab between windows and recover from the error.
Surveying:
- Paper Survey: Twice per “quarter� – After midterm and after finals.
- Other results – students hated ppt without annotations, because it felt “canned� and not that worth the while.
Versus Overheads:
- 96% students think that they Somethat/Strongly agree that the images due to TabletPC Projection was much better (67%) Somewhat/strongly agree.
- Readability: 95% Strongly Agree, 67% Strongly Agree
- 69% in-class students go back and review the materials (guessing, foreign students who are not that slick with English).
Next Steps – Future:
- Cursor Visibility (he turns on mouse trails to make the cursor more visible – we should do this)
- Alternate delivery – Classroom Presenter – Very exciting –
o Remote Screen
o Big Crosshar cursor
o Cannot use Camtasia and Classroom Presener at the same time because Camtasia wants H.W acceleration turned off and Presenter wants it on (otherwise becomes sluggish).
Questions:
Does he do distance ed?
- No because 75% of students are in the lab
- Lab and the community-sense
Podcasting of videos?
- Yes, he is probably going into it…
Attendance Problems?
- No problems… students like to be in class and ask questions in class
- Some people with class conflicts are taking this class 100% online, and results will be available at the end of it.
Gave a DVD of all his lectures at the end of it.
Used Acetate for 18 years - because loves annotations. Likes to whip out annotated overheads whenever students ask questions.
1989/90 SITN (Stanford Instr Television Network) started a course.
-- televised... ok
-- recorded... lots of review value
-- taught in an empty 200 capacity auditorium (similar to engineering's DL classroom).
-- PIP format
Students like it:
-- TIVO effect (watch later)
-- Review (watch again)
Revolution in Fall 2002:
- Camtasia (Persistent Ink)
- Co-teaching with a Powerpoint proficient co-instructor
- Tablet PC ended hand eye co-ordination issues with separate tablet (case for instructors who tape at home as against in class where sympodiums are available).
- Tablet Extensions for Microsoft Office.
Gave birth to “screencasting� in January 2003 (video captures of screen action)
- Started small – small class, changed a few lectures.
- Moved to screencasting entirely in Spring by notchng upto graduate class.
His choices in technology:
- 12� felt like an overhead, 10� was too small
- Felt need for more buttons, and need to turn of edge buttons.
- Recommends USB mics - on board soundcard is crap (just like our experience)
- He actually instructs in class wearing a headset mic.
- Produced Windows Media + Stanford’s Own Streaming Server
- 5 fps
It was interesting – when his Tablet crashed during the presentation, his keypad was useful to tab between windows and recover from the error.
Surveying:
- Paper Survey: Twice per “quarter� – After midterm and after finals.
- Other results – students hated ppt without annotations, because it felt “canned� and not that worth the while.
Versus Overheads:
- 96% students think that they Somethat/Strongly agree that the images due to TabletPC Projection was much better (67%) Somewhat/strongly agree.
- Readability: 95% Strongly Agree, 67% Strongly Agree
- 69% in-class students go back and review the materials (guessing, foreign students who are not that slick with English).
Next Steps – Future:
- Cursor Visibility (he turns on mouse trails to make the cursor more visible – we should do this)
- Alternate delivery – Classroom Presenter – Very exciting –
o Remote Screen
o Big Crosshar cursor
o Cannot use Camtasia and Classroom Presener at the same time because Camtasia wants H.W acceleration turned off and Presenter wants it on (otherwise becomes sluggish).
Questions:
Does he do distance ed?
- No because 75% of students are in the lab
- Lab and the community-sense
Podcasting of videos?
- Yes, he is probably going into it…
Attendance Problems?
- No problems… students like to be in class and ask questions in class
- Some people with class conflicts are taking this class 100% online, and results will be available at the end of it.
Gave a DVD of all his lectures at the end of it.
WIPTE 2006: Notes on Keynote
Barbara Weaver, Clemson University
Tablet PC keynote address -
Clemson is a agricultural/animal husbandry type of university.
Started the laptop initiative in 2002. Work started in earnest in June 2002.
Implementation of Tablet PC by an English teacher in Clemson University
Hired 6 grad students for faculty development program.
Strong competition in retaining graduate students from computer science & electronics engineering (other faculty steal students)
Had a faculty member walk upto her after faculty training and blasted her - "Nothing you said was helpful, you have wasted 2 days of my life"
Story "Larry Grimes" (Live presentation using Breeze, just for the heck of it, at a conference, and stood there and drank coffee).
Developed "Laptop Faculty Lab" for faculty learning.
Andrew Levin teaches music appreciation - wanted rich internet application for his course - with social software component. "Music Grid" was born.
"Message Grid" evolved out of various other departments wanting to add that social / discussion component to their pedagogy. (Devlpr - Roy).
Animal Vet Science were all "tablet enabled".
Change in Provost situation caused big problems (succumed to cancer after fighting 2 years). Late Provost was a big champion of laptops.
Now they wanted to go back to Ink... so there was the case of the missing ink.. stuck between traditional ink-thinking faculty and laptop driven economy.
The gap could have been filled with a Tablet PC.
She sends a call for ppl in need of help: and the same acrid professor comes back and says "all she said was proven right over time". (the highlight!!!!) the facMem asked went to a lunch meeting and couldn't stop telling her about his realization.
Now the laptop lounge became a tech lounge with Tablets, ipods, clickers.
PROBELMS!! - Current spaces are not exactly lappy/tabby friendly. (e,g, auditoriums).
So they have what are "Scale Up" rooms which are more geared towards technology:
- room for lappy/textbook
- room for instructors to move around
- Sympodiums
- best Scale Ups around
Governor says - if you put up Ink produced materials, then you have to make it 508 compliance.
- Have no idea how they are going to do it
- The only faculty not worried are `the one who are
70% students said they learnt best when faculty is annotating powerpoint slides and
75% felt they were more engaged
65% want materials to show up on thier lappys automatically.
55% want to add notes to these
45% wish they had a tablet (they are figuring out how to get there).
Her grandson Isaac - 8 year old learnt to use the tablet PC, highliting and all the
Take aways:
focus on pedagogy, not the technology.
interdisciplinary collaboration is important to really blossom application of technology.
get faculty who are willing to change.
engage students.
Personal likes:
Grading - especially eportfolios
also grading Word documents, including the comments, wherein ink can be written - this is more close to real world.
Image from the WIPTE Blog:
Tablet PC keynote address -
Clemson is a agricultural/animal husbandry type of university.
Started the laptop initiative in 2002. Work started in earnest in June 2002.
Implementation of Tablet PC by an English teacher in Clemson University
Hired 6 grad students for faculty development program.
Strong competition in retaining graduate students from computer science & electronics engineering (other faculty steal students)
Had a faculty member walk upto her after faculty training and blasted her - "Nothing you said was helpful, you have wasted 2 days of my life"
Story "Larry Grimes" (Live presentation using Breeze, just for the heck of it, at a conference, and stood there and drank coffee).
Developed "Laptop Faculty Lab" for faculty learning.
Andrew Levin teaches music appreciation - wanted rich internet application for his course - with social software component. "Music Grid" was born.
"Message Grid" evolved out of various other departments wanting to add that social / discussion component to their pedagogy. (Devlpr - Roy).
Animal Vet Science were all "tablet enabled".
Change in Provost situation caused big problems (succumed to cancer after fighting 2 years). Late Provost was a big champion of laptops.
Now they wanted to go back to Ink... so there was the case of the missing ink.. stuck between traditional ink-thinking faculty and laptop driven economy.
The gap could have been filled with a Tablet PC.
She sends a call for ppl in need of help: and the same acrid professor comes back and says "all she said was proven right over time". (the highlight!!!!) the facMem asked went to a lunch meeting and couldn't stop telling her about his realization.
Now the laptop lounge became a tech lounge with Tablets, ipods, clickers.
PROBELMS!! - Current spaces are not exactly lappy/tabby friendly. (e,g, auditoriums).
So they have what are "Scale Up" rooms which are more geared towards technology:
- room for lappy/textbook
- room for instructors to move around
- Sympodiums
- best Scale Ups around
Governor says - if you put up Ink produced materials, then you have to make it 508 compliance.
- Have no idea how they are going to do it
- The only faculty not worried are `the one who are
70% students said they learnt best when faculty is annotating powerpoint slides and
75% felt they were more engaged
65% want materials to show up on thier lappys automatically.
55% want to add notes to these
45% wish they had a tablet (they are figuring out how to get there).
Her grandson Isaac - 8 year old learnt to use the tablet PC, highliting and all the
Take aways:
focus on pedagogy, not the technology.
interdisciplinary collaboration is important to really blossom application of technology.
get faculty who are willing to change.
engage students.
Personal likes:
Grading - especially eportfolios
also grading Word documents, including the comments, wherein ink can be written - this is more close to real world.
Image from the WIPTE Blog:
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