Stories of TabletPC uses in the classroom

Some photos from 2008 HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference

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Schedule of the project

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Stage1 (4months): the teacher staff will be trained both in the use of TabletPC and its basic applications. They’ll have to develop classroom experiences, where they can put into practice what they have learnt. These experiences will be useful to select the most appropriate software of distributed interaction.

Stage2 (4months): Design of classroom activities to be used during the third stage in the electric circuits course. The activities will be designed in order to achieve the objectives settled for the project. At the same time, we’ll continue with pilot classroom experiences by taking advantage of what was investigated in stage 1.

Stage3 (4months): First experiences of the “Electric Systems courses” will be carried out (26 courses). The results will be registered by taking into account item 4.

Stage4 (6 months): the experiences will be evaluated and adjustments will be made. Reports with the achievements will be produced and presented to the rest of the institution, members of the educational community and to other institutions.

Stage5 (6 months): Training on relevant aspects and news on these technologies that appeared during the last. Classroom experiences will be carried out at the electric systems courses by incorporating improvements detected in the evaluation process. (26 courses)

Status report of the project

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In order to carry out the first stage of the project, different teaching and learning pilot experiences –based on the use of Tablet PCs- were conducted. The 80% of the teachers carried out these experiences with the 75% of the total student population.

To plan the experience, planning meetings and teacher trainings were organized: technical and pedagogical aspects of the use of these technologies in the classrooms were dealt with.
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After these meetings, different teaching resources and materials were produced for the classroom.

During the experience, the teachers shared information at a blog, where they expressed their feelings in terms of strengths and weaknesses in the use of the new tools.

Here are the teachers’ comments: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4100939191874211635&postID=963449391995720475

After this first stage, know-how was acquired, both as a result of classroom experience and by sharing information with other teachers of the staff through the blog.

To conclude this first stage, and as an introduction to the following one, in February, teachers will be trained in issues related to educational research, especially classroom records and observation, design of rubrics and observation matrices, and also in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the information.