CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Mobile Instructional Laboratory Experiments and Their Use in Computing Sciences St. Joseph's College Bert G. Wachsmuth Seton Hall University

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Seton Hall and Computing  Catholic University in South Orange  Approximately 10,000 students  Mandatory laptop program for undergraduates (6,000 laptops)  Fully wireless campus, high-speed network backbone, LCD Projector in every classroom  Instructional support for technology via Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC)  400+ Tablets for all Science majors and faculty

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Math & Computer Science Joint Mathematics and Computer Science Department BS in Math and in Computer Science Active Faculty Research GraphTheory Day 43, 2002 MASPLAS, 2004 TFP, 2007 NSF Grants Active Undergraduate Research Derek Pope: Chaos Theory: Metaphysical and Mathematical Exploration. Kristine Joy S. Apon, et al: The MT-Scheme Compiler. Victor Encarnacion, Barbara Mucha: Paging Performance in the MT Evaluator Virtual Machine

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall The Tablet PC  No need for traditional blackboard (use Tablet PC + LCD projector)  Teach and write while facing the class  Create notes and lectures to distributed to students without extra work  Other programs (Compilers, Web resources) immediately available  Collaborative software enables “joint creative experience” Side Note: IBM launched the ThinkPad line in 1992 with the ThinkPad 700, a tablet computer, no keyboard, monochrome LCD screen, 40 MB flash memory (instead of hard disk), PenPoint OS from Go, and handwriting recognizer from IBM

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Collaboration Software DyKnow Vision  Presentation tool  Collaboration tool  Assessment tool  Easy to use … optimized for Tablets, but works with any Windows computer …

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Presentation Tool

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Presentation Tool (2)

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Presentation Tool (3)

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Collaboration Tool Users can submit panels Instructor can retrieve panels from any student Anonymous or with ID Instructor can give “ink control” to one or more students – their writing will then appear on everyone’s panel

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Collaboration Tool (2) Instructor posed question, then turned control to student Student answered question, visible to everyone

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Collaboration Tool (3) In “demonstration mode” can share a life image of any program running on any participant’s screen. Can also embed screenshot(s) into current session

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Collaboration Tool (4) Can divide participants into work groups (even randomly) that can collaborate on shared panels

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Assessment Tool   Can prepare a quiz on one or more panels   Quiz will appear on all student laptops   Students can fill out quiz on their laptop/tablet   Students can hit “panel submission” to submit their work   Instructor can save all quizzes and grade them on his/her Tablet   Instructor can (asynchronously) return quizzes electronically by clicking “return panels”   Instructor maintains a record of all graded quizzes

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall DyKnow as Assessment Tool (2)   Support for anonymous “instant feedback” questions

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Survey – Faculty with Tablets

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Survey – Students with Tablets In your opinion, the DyKnow software _________ in understanding the course material [in Calc 2].

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Is it Worth It?

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Student Quotes “All I needed was my Tablet + I had everything” “I enjoy the fact that the notes are electronic and I can concentrate more on the material” “You are able to pay attention in class instead of being distracted by taking notes” “I guess, though, that sometimes writing something down yourself can help you learn it […]”

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Contact Info Bert G. Wachsmuth Math/CS Department Seton Hall University Web:

CCSCE 2007 Bert Wachsmuth, Seton Hall Handwriting Recognition?