I use a double screen, touch screen PC Tablet along with a digital stylus and touchpad. I have a growing collection of productivity and educational software installed.
My hardware and software allow me to:
- Provide Quality
- increase the scope and depth of lessons
- access and share excellent resources such as graphics, simulations, virtual experiments, videos, presentations, etc.
- foster student interest through interactive learning
- Be Efficient
- cover more material in less time
- quickly pull up pre-written notes relevant to a student’s question
- email notes and spare students from the hassle of copying down notes
- build a library of notes and share it with other students
- scan or download students’ class notes or other documents in order to quickly crop, edit, annotate and solve
- use a graphing calculator emulator so that students can follow along with my steps
- instantly solve and/or graph a variety of functions to enhance conceptual understanding
- reduce or eliminate time wasted on hand writing notes and manually graphing all illustrations
- Tailor My Approach
- have students read and critique notes in real‐time if and when they need to be produced
- supplement with images for visual learners
- help students with projects, presentations, spreadsheets, essays, etc.
- provide distance learning
- Be Better
- keep all material neat and organized
- save trees