The IBM ThinkPad in Your Classroom

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The IBM ThinkPad in YourClassroom
Technology
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We need 10-dot thinkers
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Why?

• We live in a world of moving pictures and
  technology.
• Those faculty who will be more successful in
  this century will be those who can communicate in
  moving pictures and use technology.

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Multiple-Sense Learning

• 10 of what is read
• 20 of what is heard.
• 30 of what is seen
• 50 of what is heard and seen
• 70 of what is said by the learner
• 90 of what is said as it is done- Source Unknown

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Uses for Think Pad Technology
Suggested

• Personal Management Tool
• Presentation Tool
• Student Research Collaboration
• WebQuests
• Learning Stations tutorials, stand-alones
• On-line Course Development-Blackboard

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Personal Management Tool

• E-mail
• Grading
• Document creation
• On-line searches
• Web-mail, LOTUS Notes, MS Office Suite,Internet

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Presentation Tool

• Faculty use of
• CD-ROM Programs (off-the shelf)
• Video Clips
• Photographs
• Graphics/Diagrams
• Sound
• Student-generated presentations

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Learning Stations

• Stand-alone tutorial labs for
• Remedial work
• Reduce redundancy of ARC requests
• Math readiness
• Language drills
• Independent study
• Accounting test prep
• Advanced placement

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WebQuests Internet-Based Research
Collaboration

• Go beyond retelling tasks
• Move student use to research-based
• Cross-reference
• Synthesis
• Critical thinking

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Sample WebQuest Tasks

• Compilation Tasks
• Creative Product Tasks
• Persuasion Tasks
• Design Tasks
• Consensus-Building Tasks
• Judgment Tasks
• Scientific Tasks

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On-line Course Development

• Expand the college outreach
• JIT learning modules
• On-line college population
• Collaboration with high schools on targeted
  courses, i.e, Chemistry, Maths
• Primary Tool Blackboard

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Team Approach

• Faculty
• Instructional Technologist/Assets Designer
• Wireless Network Technologist

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Demos

• YOU ASK
• CD-ROM Tutorial on US Personnel Law
• Adult Learners
• Macromedia Director
• THIS IS IT!
• Stand-alone Learning Lab on MIDI
• Middle School Music Class
• Powerpoint