Teaching With A Tablet Pc, A New Technology For The Classroom And Academic Usage

The continued emergence of Tablet PC’s with higher performance, lower price and handwriting to text conversion capabilities make this a potential teaching tool for the modern classroom. This paper will document methods that can be used in the classroom and for personal/professional and academic usage. As a teaching tool, a tablet PC can be used to pre-post lecture notes and then during class time, adding additional information to the general outline. This would eliminate the old method of J.I.T. teaching (writing on the board and students copying into their notes). Any Microsoft document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) can be “imported” and then written on top of in a live, or distance learning environment. The usage of OneNote software to coordinate professional or academic activities allows the user to have information on hand and no longer requires printed documents to be collated, stored in folders and in drawers of file cabinets. Demonstrations of these teaching methods along with an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of this technology will be presented in this paper.