HP Mobile Technologies at MSU

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HP Mobile Technologies at MSU
Moscow State University Department of
Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Moscow,
Russia Sergey Berezin, Boris Berezin, Anatoly
Gulyaev http//microsoft.cs.msu.su/hptt
PROJECT ABSTRACT We are using HP mobile
technology to build Digital Workbook TabletPC
application and introduce it to educational
process. We hope than it will bring new
experience both for teachers and students when
reading lectures on subjects with rich multimedia
content such Computer Graphics and when
conducting practical lessons and tests on
mathematical subjects such as Differential
Equations.

• Impact on Student Learning
• Courses on Computer Graphics and Differential
  Equations are both read to three hundred of
  students. Part of these students will receive
  Tablet PCs with our application on lectures and
  practical lessons.
• Digital Workbook application will be made freely
  available for students with their own Tablet PCs.
  These will extend representative group.
• We plan to collect and evaluate two metrics
• Formal Comparison of marks
• Informal Opinions of students (survey)

• Technology Implementation
• Our Digital Workbook application turns Tablet PC
  into learning tool consolidating all of the
  students materials including
• Lectures
• Practical lessons tests
• Document library with markups
• Digital Workbook application is based on
  Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and fully utilizes
  power of Windows Presentation Foundation with
  Tablet PC support, Windows Communication
  Foundation and new XPS document format.

Impact on Teaching Our goal is to unite strong
sides of classical blackboard and paper
approach with modern presentation and
computer. In field of Computer Graphics well
introduce new kind of lectures where main
statements, complex formulas and rich and,
possible, interactive media is prepared by
teacher and translated to students, who embed
teachers content into lectures written on Tablet
PCs. On practical lessons on Differential
Equations we replace paper with Tablet PCs. That
will enhance set of tools available to students
and will help to better keep track of students
work. We plan to apply our approach to other
subjects such as Scientific Visualization and
Numerical Methods.
Keywords Electronic documents, digital
inks, markup, Computer Graphics, Differential
Equations
Results are gathered on server for later
semiautomatic checking by teacher