1. 1 http://guir.berkeley.edu Using Note-Taking Appliances for Student to Student Collaboration Prof. James A. Landay EECS Dept., UC Berkeley July 8, 1999 HCC Retreat * original prototype developed in conjunction w/ FXPAL

2. 2 Observation Students often leave class with different ideas about what was discussed & what was important. They also spend a lot of time copying information. Can we improve this by encouraging collaboration?

3. 3 Vision Take notes on note-taking appliances * & combine after class along with lecturer’s slides! * electronic devices suited primarily for writing notes

4. 4 Vision

5. 5 How NotePals Works Meet in the classroom Take free-form ink notes on PalmPilots or CrossPads 1 2

6. 6 How NotePals Works Meet in the classroom Take free-form ink notes on PalmPilots or CrossPads 1 2

7. 7 How NotePals Works (cont.) Dock PalmPilot/CrossPad with PCs & Synchronize Review notes on the Web 4 3

8. 8 Reviewing Notes on the Web

9. 9 Sharing Notes

10. 10 Graduate Note-taking Experience

11. 11 Graduate Note-taking Experience

12. 12 Graduate Note-taking Experience

13. 13 Advantages of our Approach  Lightweight infrastructure *no expensive hardware or special rooms  Lightweight interface *free-form ink lets students focus on class  Lightweight sharing *share load of taking notes *not limited to a single perspective

14. 14 Current Work  Performing a larger-scale classroom experiment *study how note-taking behavior changes (partners?) *results may depend on the style of the professor’s slides, testing methodology, & privacy  Creating a NotePals service w/ new UIs *anyone on the web could start a NotePals “group”  Developing note-taking clients for new devices *Vadem Clio, PalmPC  Making it easier to annotate other types of objects or media w/ notes

15. 15 “Sharing notes using NotePals can help groups of students collaborate more easily” http://guir.berkeley.edu