Wireless Tablet Computing in the College Algebra

Classroom

Lamar University Pilot Project 

Vision Statement

Based on Feedback from Students in College Algebra Course (Needs Assessment), LU Provost and Professor Dr. Stephen Doblin supported by Dr. Michael Dobe (CIO) Seeks Greater Mobility in College Algebra Classroom to Share Mathematics Equations with Students While Untethered from Computer Workstation at the Corner of a Large Lecture Hall.  Dr. Doblin Also Seeks to Record and Share Equations Via Blackboard for Student Review.

Time and Scope

•Mondays and Wednesdays, 4 - 5:15 p.m.  First  class day is August 23 and last class day is December 8.  There will be 30 class meetings.

•Projecting content wirelessly from tablet through a wireless VGA bridge to an Echo 360 appliance, which projects content onto screen from the tablet via overhead projector, records tablet content and uploads content on an automated schedule to LU's hosted Blackboard instance for students to review in Blackboard.

Computing Support Requirements

•Dell Tablet PC: ITS - Personal Computing Services•Wireless Bridge - Personal Computing Services •Echo 360 Appliance & Computer Control Station? •Blackboard 9 Software - Center for Distance Education •Echo 360 Software for Equations (Uploading to Blackboard

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Although a Late Entrant Into the Market, Dell Now Offers a 2nd Generation Tablet PC

See Above Dell Tablet PC - official announcement

Tablet PC: Dell XT2 Tablet PC

Wireless From Tablet to Screen and to Blackboard

VGA Bridge to Echo 360 Appliance Instead of Wireless Projector

Wireless USB to VGA Adapter

Dell Tablet With Wireless VGA Bridge

Echo 360 Lecture Capture Appliance

Looking at Instructional Spaces for Wireless Tablet Computing

Multimedia Inputs in Corner Workstation

•Echo 360 Appliance With Wireless VGA Bridge to be Added to the Workstation Configuration

•Wireless Bridge Between Tablet PC and Echo 360 Appliance, INSTEAD OF USING A WIRELESS PROJECTOR!

Lucas 119 Updates

Summer 2010

New Floor Eliminates Dip in Front of Classroom

New View From the Podium

Other Side of Lecture Hall