Oct. 17, 2003HP Mobility Conference Classroom Presentation and Interaction with Tablet PCs Richard Anderson & Steve Wolfman Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Large lecture classes Challenges Maintaining attention Communication Feedback from students Flexibility in presentation materials Conducting activities in class

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Educational Technology …in the winter of 1813 & '14 … I attended a mathematical school kept in Boston…On entering his room, we were struck at the appearance of an ample Black Board suspended on the wall, with lumps of chalk on a ledge below, and cloths hanging at either side. I had never heard of such a thing before. [Samuel J. May, 1855]

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Mobile devices in the classroom Potential to have a transformational impact by increasing classroom interaction Path of implementation Distributed application with multiple roles Path of adoption Incremental introduction Provide value at each step

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Classroom Presenter Initial focus on the instructor Clear problem to address Control adoption decision Distributed application Separation of instructor device from display machine Distributed classrooms Interaction with student devices

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Classroom Deployments Since summer 2002, it has been used in about 35 CSE courses Intro programming courses to masters’ courses Used at UVa and University of San Diego starting spring 2003.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Positive reception from instructors and students Positive comments and repeat use by instructors Student surveys Student comparison vs. PowerPoint lessno changemore Attention to lecture 4%39%57% Understanding of lecture 2%52%46%

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Instructor innovations and suggestions Taking tablet to the audience Elaborate preparation of instructor notes on second deck of slides Improved navigation Collective brainstorming

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Inking Study Careful study of recorded lectures to look at instructor’s use of digital ink Main results A substantial amount of ink is ephemeral Ink used as gestures Ink provides a linkage between spoken utterance and slide content

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Instructor Ink Examples

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Diagramatic Examples

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Integration of student devices Slides Mediate Communication Ink used to provide linkage between speech and slides Interaction of student devices with slides Classroom Feedback System Fixed messages attached to slide content Free form submission Inked slides submitted for instructor’s view Structured Interaction Planned exercises automatically displayed and integrated into slides

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Classroom Feedback System Student feedback does not scale We want to encourage participation and make it easy to give feedback Students select feedback from a fixed menu (slowdown, question, explain) attached to slide

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Classroom Feedback System Instructor view Student feedback on “not” Feedback displayed as red dot

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Student ink contributions Student viewing devices allow inking Students may submit inked slides to instructor Class exercise scenario Student submissions displayed on shared display for class discussion Free form ink submission by students Question asking

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Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Goals of class exercises Participation Discussion Active learning Student contribution and involvement Interaction Spontaneity

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Structured Interactions for Presentations Enable instructors to design presentations with interactive elements just as they currently design passive presentations: by laying out simple objects on slides and collecting these into a presentation.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Multiple choice problems Students receive a collection of multiple choice problems Result slide shows votes and proposes an ink exercise Ink exercises returned to instructor for review Instructor has choice of answers to display

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference SIP multiple- choice exercise.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference MC result + ink exercise.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Shared view of ink exercise Instructor view of ink exercise

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Text based exercises Students submit textual answers Distribute answers to students for analysis Distributed Human Computation Aggregate results for shared display

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Text exercise

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference Students evaluate each others’ ideas.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference SIP aggregates the results.

Oct 17, 2003HP Mobile Technology Conference SIP Summary Support for many types of exercises Integration of exercises into presentations unifies design process eases sharing of presentations simplifies in-class execution of exercises Scales to large classes

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