Tablets are like laptops, but you can write on the screen with the special tablet pen. You can throw away your three ring binders and take all your notes with the virtual note-paper. You can write on any digital document (e.g. Microsoft Word files, PowerPoints, PDF documents) just like you might mark up a piece of paper with a pen or highlighter. The tablet pen or "stylus" is both a mouse and a writing instrument. With a tablet, you can manipulate hand-written notes and drawings with the same kinds of electronic advantages that make word-processing better than typewriters. These advantages include revision, moving things around, cut & paste, emailing, resizing, multiple copies, etc. The tablet note-taking software has many capabilities not possible with paper-based note-taking. There are also a variety of interesting applications just for the tablet. At this station, there are four adventures you can try. It does not matter what order you do them in, so dive right in and try your hand at tablet computing!
Objective: You will create a page in OneNote Notebook
DIRECTIONS
Open OneNote NAIS notebook and write a few notes about how you think you could use tablet PC's in your 21st century classroom.
Explore the various pen features (highlight, color, size etc).
What are ways that you can align your classroom with 21st century learning, literacies, themes, and skills.
Try the record feature that is built into OneNote. This feature will allow you to take notes while recording the presentations. These audio notes are indexed with the text notes as you write. Go ahead and try it. This is Very Cool!
How are Notes and Notebooks organized? Can you make new tabs?
Objective: You will explore the windows tablet journal by adding information to an existing journal document
DIRECTIONS
Open the Windows Journal document: "Innovation Adoption" and make a little dot to show where you fall on the graph. Save the file
Open a New (Blank) Journal document and explore writing (inking) with the pen. Can you turn the hand-written notes into text? Explore the tool. Have fun!
Check out Physics Illustrator. It is as simple as that. What is this program? What can you do with Physics Illustrator and how can it be used in the 21st century classroom with tablets?
Watch this video that shows some of the things you can draw in Physics Illustrator
See what you can draw!
Save your physics illustration in the folder on the desktop and feel free to look at others!
Tips
Drawing an arrow anywhere on the background creates "gravity" in whatever direction your arrow points.
Drawing arrows off of a shape give it force in that direction
You can connect shapes by drawing a line between them.
You can make an object stationary by drawing a check mark on it.
