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Unlocking the Power of Pen: Enhancing Productivity and Collaboration

Learn how the pen can revolutionize your work and study habits. Discover the versatility of Tablet PCs, slates, hybrids, and convertibles. Harness the power of digital ink to annotate presentations, read and mark up documents, grade assignments, take handwritten notes, and utilize specialized software. Explore the convenience of using a pen as your mouse, and experience the benefits of a virtual office. Join us to discover a whole new world of possibilities!

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Unlocking the Power of Pen: Enhancing Productivity and Collaboration

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  1. What I can do with a pen that I can not do with a mouse Steven C. Myers Department of Economics, The University of Akron myers@uakron.edu http://GoZips.UAkron.edu/~myers For presentation at the Celebration of Learning and Teaching The University of Akron April 14, 2006

  2. Transitions • Remember getting your first laptop after being used to a desktop? • Do you now haul your laptop home and to class? • You are a mobile worker / teacher / student if so. • But so you also haul along stacks of paper, a text book or two and a few folders of notes or a large notebook?

  3. Digital Ink • Tablet PC is a Laptop plus a pen! • Slates • Hybrids • Convertibles • The Pen is the mouse! (and you can use a mouse too). • Best, but not only way to add a pen • SMART Smartboards and Sympodium • Wacom or Aptiek Tablet

  4. Gateway M280 • Pentium M 1.88 GHz • 1 GB RAM • XP Windows Tablet PC edition 2005 • 80 GB HD • DVD writer • Port replicator • University installed software

  5. What can I do with a pen I can not do with a mouse? • Annotate and originate live presentations • Read and markup on the screen • Grade electronic submissions • Take handwritten notes and organize • Use new and exciting software that is designed for the pen. • Use the tablet as an input screen, and a second monitor, keyboard and mouse to have a desktop on steroids.

  6. Annotate and originate live presentations • PowerPoint, but active and interactive • Presentations – anything on my screen plus anything I want to write projected • Wired via VGA cable or • Wireless to the projector • Microsoft Journal • Microsoft One Note • MS Word, Excel, Outlook all accept ink • Adobe Acrobat

  7. Other Presentation and Interactive Software • DyKnow.com • UW Classroom Presenter • Macromedia Breeze Presentation and note taking by students.

  8. Reading and Markup • Microsoft Research's Tablet PC and Curriculum, 2004 in MS Journal • Article in pdf, from journal “marking up” • Filling out forms example digitally signed

  9. Electronic Grading • demand_suppply_exercise_marked.jnt in Journal • module2g_questions.pdf as returned in pdf • Let’s grade one. email writing assignment printed to journal.jnt

  10. Scanned to pdf, jpg, tif, etc. faxed to digital (eFax) Document management system your copier! document server Pen tablet Tablet PC Email the professor send via weblink (cgi script) upload to server upload to CMS (WebCT) Important: Naming Conventions Analog to Digital InputStore and Forward

  11. Taking Notes • Journal • One Note • Organization • Handwriting can be searched • Handwriting can be converted • Can record voice with note taking

  12. Virtual Office Hours And offer Collaboration tools • Macromedia Breeze

  13. Tablet PC Resources • Tablet PC References.htm • Soon to be at http://GoZips.UAkron.edu/~myers

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