Monthly Archives: September 2007

Where Men Teachers Work

Veteran teacher Nancy Flanagan recently asked where are the men in education? She comes to this question with notable credentials: 31 years as K-12 teacher; a Teacher in Residence with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 1993 Michigan Teacher … Continue reading

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Integrate Tablet PCs into High School Math

Torrey Pines High School integrated Wolfram Research Mathematica 6.0′s software into its curriculum for advanced mathematics students with Lenovo x60 Tablet PCs. Students used pen and touch technologies to manipulate interactive graphics and to develop complex data models. The class … Continue reading

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Call for Content: Microsoft Mobile PC News!

The editors of Microsoft Mobile PC News! Newsletter issued a call for content. Follow the link on WhatIsNew. Although we scour the globe looking for relevant material, we may very well miss your announcements and accomplishments. Don’t be shy. Tell … Continue reading

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Tablet PC Changes Classroom Dynamics

Lora shares her fascination with stories people post about how they use Tablet PCs for teaching and learning. I am continually fascinated by what education tools and applications people see as valuable. But my favorite part is hearing stories about … Continue reading

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Tablet PCs Increase Teaching-Learning Efficiencies

Stacy Grant and Jason Crist (2005) outlined ways Tablet PCs increase efficiency while lowering costs of teaching and learning. Teachers and others responsible for increasing learning rates while decreasing costs may find their observations useful. In short, they argue that … Continue reading

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Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum Revisited

Christine Alvarado and others offered a thoughtful overview of Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum offerings three years ago. When integrating Tablet PC technologies with other advances in the computing sciences, undergraduate computing educators must re-think what we teach students and … Continue reading

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Tablet PC with Three Monitors

tboehme describes how he uses two external 19″ monitors with his Tablet PC Thinkpad X61t. He uses the Matrox DualHead2Go to make the connections. That gives him three working monitors with almost independent images at the same time. It appears … Continue reading

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UMPC Review Useful for Educators

Steve “Chippy” Paine offers a thoughtful review of Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) that educators may use to identify who uses them and for what purposes. Teachers familiar only with desktops and cell phones will find that Chippy’s review offers a glimpse … Continue reading

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Map Animal, then Human Behavior

Tanya Berger-Wolf, Daniel Rubenstein, and Jared Saia received a grant from the National Science Foundation of $900,000 to create computational tools that provide a broader, more dynamic picture of animal social interactions. Their software may help ecologists devise new techniques … Continue reading

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Mobile Internet Devices at IDF 2007

Lora summarizes mobile internet devices (MID) highlighted during Anand Chandrasekher’s keynote at Intel Developers Forum 2007 in San Francisco. ASUS, Samsung, Fujitsu, and BenQ are some of the more familiar brands that will use Intel’s Menlow (for release 1H CY08). … Continue reading

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