1. 1 © J.G. Tront Tablet PCs & WriteOn Joseph G. Tront Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Virginia Tech jgtront@vt.edu Copyright Joseph Tront, 2006. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

2. 2 © J.G. Tront Your Classroom Thinking Points:  What can rich communications do for your class? Collaboration, competition, consultation, discussion, note capture, etc. Peer to peer, multicast, broadcast, reflectors; draw the reflector

3. 3 © J.G. Tront Your Classroom Thinking Points:  What can e-ink do for your class? Increase teacher/student expressiveness Questions to ask yourself during discussion

4. 4 © J.G. Tront State Diagrams  Example: 2-bit video driver/counter 00 01 10 11 0/0 1/1 0/0 1/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 1/1 BA State definition

5. 5 © J.G. Tront State Diagrams  Example: 2-bit video driver/counter 00 01 10 11 0/0 1/1 0/0 1/0 0/0 1/0 0/0 1/1 BA State definition

6. 6 © J.G. Tront Your Classroom Thinking Points:  What can e-ink do for your class? Increase teacher/student expressiveness Impromptu examples or problem modification Questions to ask yourself during discussion Color for emphasis or expression EMPHASIS What else do you need?

7. 7 © J.G. Tront WriteOn e-Ink Application for Presentations:  Overlays display with a virtual transparency  Allows ink on top of active presentation  Punch through allows operating program to be affected by stylus/keyboard  Save application image plus annotation as composite  Net composite to students via Conference XP  Insert composite into OneNote pages  Transfer composite via clipboard

8. 8 © J.G. Tront WriteOn Example  Software simulation program  Code is being executed step by step  Animation shows memory changes, processor operation  WriteOn overlays display  Instructor annotates operation  Important display and annotation information is captured and stored

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14. 14 © J.G. Tront Potential Classroom Uses of Tablets  How can you use the tablet in your classes?  What do you hope to accomplish?  How do you know when you are successful?

15. 15 © J.G. Tront WriteOn Available Free Available for download from: www.ee.vt.edu/~jgtront/writeon For more information or usage examples contact: jgtront@vt.edu

16. 16 © J.G. Tront Also Using CLASSROOM PRESENTER Available for download from: www.cs.washington.edu/education/presenter/ For more information or usage examples contact: jgtront@vt.edu

17. 17 © J.G. Tront Cornell’s 3D Journal Available for download from: www.cornell.edu/3djournal For more information, contact: jgtront@vt.edu

18. 18 © J.G. Tront Other Tablet Tools Available for download from: wwww.microsoft.com Search for Power Toys For more information, contact: jgtront@vt.edu