Tablet PC's in Distance Learning (DL) at Georgia Tech Savannah

This video shows how Tablet PCs and Dyknow software are used to facilitate a showdown of academic prowess in a distributed learning environment affiliated with the Savannah campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT-S). In this circumstance, students belonging to the Georgia Institute of Technology are placed regionally in the state. One group of students is located in a classroom on the GT-S campus (in Savannah, GA) while another group of students are connected via video-conference from a room at Georgia Southern University (in Statesboro, GA). The video shows interviews with the students regarding how the use of Tablet PCs has impacted their learning experiences in this distributed setting as well as a competition between the two sites in regards to which group of students can answer the most questions in a quiz bowl for extra course credit. The students use the Tablet PCs to write their answers on the computer and then are able to submit their answers to the professor via a panel management system in a software utility called Dyknow. This project was made possible through funding from HP and Microsoft.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Tablet PC's
• classroom
• statistics
• Georgia Tech
• Distance Learning

[jillison]

Outstanding! I could watch it again and again!

[shardiman12]

Not your usual mundane note taking!

Go Statesboro!

[spencerburch]

laurel285, I totally agree. The students in Savannah are so smart!

Seriously though, the video looks awesome. This was a great experience that I am glad that I was able to be a part of. Technology in the classroom has come a long way from chalk boards and overhead projectors.

[laurel285]

love the video! good job putting it together, not to mention the awesome and highly intelligent students in Savannah who won!!

[bdsklein]

Great way to get the students fired up about math - good old-fashioned competition. Cool stuff!

[spectreds]

This is excellent!!  Great to see student interaction facilitated by technology!

[GTSavannah212]

Great Video!