V 1.3 : ActivInspire. DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effect. The full title should have been “Eleven Reasons Why a Tablet PC + Digital Projector is Better Than a Whiteboard or Overhead Projector… and Sometimes Smarter Than a Smartboard”.
My primary point is this: People are still “discovering” what a Tablet PC can do. Once educators realize that they do everything a laptop does PLUS you can draw in the screen, then the next obvious question becomes, “How does this help me in class?” I have some practical examples to share... While many of the examples I blog about are 1-to-1 settings where all the students and the teacher are interacting through their own tablet pc, there are many examples of what can be done with ONE tablet in a classroom. Société Interwrite learning. Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii.
As of June 2008, Nintendo has sold nearly 30 million Wii game consoles.
This significantly exceeds the number of Tablet PCs in use today according to even the most generous estimates of Tablet PC sales. This makes the Wii Remote one of the most common computer input devices in the world. It also happens to be one of the most sophisticated. It contains a 1024x768 infrared camera with built-in hardware blob tracking of up to 4 points at 100Hz. This significantly out performs any PC "webcam" available today.