Economic Writing Contest

2013 Creative Writing Contest http://www.clevelandfed.org/Learning_Center/For_Teachers/contests_for_students/writing/2013/index.cfm

Tips for leaders of online programs

Tips for college leaders to make online programs work http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/11/tips-college-leaders-make-online-programs-work

Design may be coming full circle

Tablet PC Review reports that the Samsung Galaxy Note includes a pen.  A pen for taking digital ink notes.  This is a great step in the right direction.  I love the flexibility of the tablet (iPad, Zoom, etc), but without a pen I would not consider them.  Add the power to run compatible software to my Tablet PC and the perfect traveling machine is born.  Online learning, including interacting with the lecture in the classroom, might be enhanced with more of these devices.  Let's see.

Campus Technology misses the Tablet PC

Are you kidding me?

Campus Technology has a product focus on interactive whiteboards as a collaborative tool.  It also has a long list of alternative technologies, but they miss the ultimate collaborative tool.  Each of the technologies are involved in trying to get the written and drawn image on a white board projected or saved and transmitted electronically to students in the classroom or at a distance.

How can they miss the Tablet PC?  Really folks, I can write or draw on my tablet screen and broadcast it anywhere.  One can simply use Microsoft Journal to create a white space to write on or write on any of the Microsoft Office products and with other apps can write on anything.   I have been doing this for years to great success.  When the screen in the classroom is in front of the classroom whiteboard as it is in almost every classroom I walk into, the Tablet PC is both the projector of content and the electronic whiteboard.

I think this reaches a new height with using DyKnow Vision in a 1:1 computing environment.  Each student needs a computer to receive the message and a free client download and they do not have to be Tablets.