Food for thought

If you get a chance, please read the article below on technology and education (David Hathaway forwarded it to me).

http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21543

After reading the article, feel free to respond to my comment below:

Interesting article. Where technology has its greatest role, I think, is differentiation of instruction. We don't do enough of that. It would be interesting to see if there is a guru out there who knows something about the use of technology to help differentiate instruction. Maybe we are the guru, that is, the Tablet PC working group. Maybe we can debate this in a share session, maybe today? Anybody using their Tablets specifically to differentiate their instruction? Feel free to comment in person/on the Blog.

Tablet + Camtasia = Great when missing class

I should have posted this long ago, but I've had trouble logging in. Using Camtasia and the Tablet made it much easier for me to go on the Burch trip this year. Before I left for the trip, I taught all the classes I was going to miss. I used OneNote to write notes, and recorded the session with Camtasia. While I was gone, my students watched a lecture each day by their normal teacher and were able to keep up daily. The time investment to set everything up was difficult, but not as bad as it seems. Since there was no interaction, I could cover everything I would normally cover in a class period in about 15-20 minutes.


PS - My video about changing the brightness settings is not very useful. Unfortunately, as soon as you shut down, the computer goes back to the original default. I have not figured out how to change that.