Promoting Student Engagement with Classroom Presenter

1. Promoting Student Engagement with Classroom Presenter Richard Anderson University of Washington

2. Draw a picture of something from Pennsylvania

3. Student Attention vs. Time Attention 10 20 30 40 50 60 Time 3

4. What will the higher education classroom look like … • If all students have computational devices • Laptops, Tablets, Ultra light tablets, PDAs, Cell Phones, Gameboys . . . • If the devices are all connected • If the devices are integrated into classroom instruction

5. Wide range of potential classroom applications Presentation Demonstration Simulation Accessing external resources Note taking Feedback Active learning Peer communication

6. Classroom Technology Vision Classroom Pedagogy Student Centric Applications Sustainable Device Deployment

7. Classroom Presenter

8. Classroom Presenter Instructor Note • Distributed, Tablet PC Application • Initial development, 2001-2002 at MSR • Continuing development at UW • Collaboration with Microsoft • CP3 under development • CP3 Beta released, May 30, 2007 • Simple application • Ink Overlay on images • Export PPT to image • Real time ink broadcast • UI Designed for use during presentation on tablet • Presentation features • Instructor notes on slides • Slide minimization • White board

9. Deployment StudiesUniversity of Washington • Computer Science • Algorithms, Data Structures, Software Engineering, Digital Design • College of Forestry • Environmental Science and Resource Management • Classroom set of HP 1100 Tablet PCs • Average of one activity based lecture per week • Remaining lectures standard slide based lectures • One to three students per tablet

10. Key results • Successful classroom deployments • Regular use throughout term • Generally positive evaluation by all participants • Effective tool for achieving instructors’ pedagogical goals • Lecture – Activity model • Alternating lecturing with activities • Avg. 4 activities per lecture (50 min. classes) • 4 min work time, 2 min discussion time per activity • 50% of class time associated with activities

11. Classroom Activities • Pedagogical Goals • Classroom Activities

12. Discussion Artifact • Use student generated example to explore different aspects of a topic • Assess overall understanding • Diagnose misconceptions

13. Western Pennsylvania Precipitation and Temperature 80 4 60 3 Temperature Daily average, degrees F Use Blue Precipitation inch per month Use Red 40 2 20 1 0 December January Student Submission

14. Discovery Activity • Have students derive a concept from an example

15. Topological Sort • Given a set of tasks with precedence constraints, find a linear order of the tasks • Label vertices with integers 1, 2, . . ., n • If v precedes w, then l(v) < l(w) 321 322 401 142 143 341 326 421 370 431 378

16. Find a topological order for the following graph H E I A D G J C F K B L

17. Collective Brainstorm Generate student ideas for discussion Build a list of ideas Analyze and evaluate responses

18. Special problem: Large Size List at least three problems trees must face (& solve) because of their large sizes. 1. 2. 3. 18

19. Problem Introduction • Have students explore an instance of a problem before topic is introduced

20. Determine the LCS of the following strings BARTHOLEMEWSIMPSON KRUSTYTHECLOWN 20

21. Submissions

22. Challenge problems Competition in getting solutions Simultaneous work Submission and discussion

23. Handwriting Recognition:Identify the following words

24. Recognition results

25. Submission examples

29. Classroom Usage • Data from Undergraduate Algorithms course • Logged data – timings of submissions • Work time – students working independently on activities • Discussion time – student work shown on public display • Average work time 4:29 • Average display time 2:41 • Participation Rates • Percentage of students present submitting work • Min 11%, Max 100%, Average 69% • Some students would answer without submitting • Resubmission common

30. Collaboration One to three students per tablet Interaction between students often encouraged Instructors would survey and occasionally comment on student work during activity phase Student work a key part of classroom discussion

31. Anonymity Work displayed on public display without any identification Limited information about submission displayed on the instructor machine Anonymous display valued by the students Students often believe the instructor can identify their work Tagging behavior observed

32. Results • Comparison with classroom networks • Classroom response systems, “clickers” • Single display of rich responses versus aggregated, finite responses • Support different classroom goals • Comparison with paper based activities • Most of the activities can be done with paper! • Improved logistics with digital system • Anonymity • Key is ability to incorporate into public display

33. Classroom Presenter 3 • Beta Release – May 30 • 3.0 Release – any day now! • Current builds available from • www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/downloads/CP3/ • Most significant changes from CP2 • Support for TCP/IP networking • Improved ink support • Direct import of PPT (no need for deckbuilder) • For more information contact • Richard Anderson, anderson@cs.washington.edu

34. Any questions? For more information, contact Richard Anderson (anderson@cs.washington.edu) http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/

35. Acknowledgement • This work has been supported by NSF, HP, and Microsoft Research External Research and Programs • Classroom Presenter users have provided incredibly important feedback to the project • Many people have contributed to the project including Ruth Anderson, Crystal Hoyer, Jonathan Su, K. M. Davis, Craig Prince, Valentin Razmov, Oliver Chung, Julia Schwarz, Fred Videon, Jay Beavers, Jane Prey, Chris Moffatt, Natalie Linnell, Steve Wolfman, Eitan Feinberg, Peter Davis, Beth Simon

36. History of Classroom Presenter • Developed has a presentation tool for a distributed classroom project • Motivation • Address instructors complaints about using PPT for distance learning courses • Replace Netmeeting for PowerPoint and SmartBoard with application to integrate slides and ink • Initial work done while on sabbatical at Microsoft prior to release of Tablet PC

37. Classroom Presenter 1.0 • Feature set • Inking • Synchronization of slides • Slide minimize • Geometrical highlighting • Feedback menus • Scrollable mylar

38. Classroom Presenter 2.0 • Filmstrip with previews • Multideck model • Instructor notes • Student submissions • Export to HTML • Quick poll • Remote cursor • Full screen erase (with undo) • Archive with replay

39. Networking Issues • Multicast networking • Built on networking for ConferenceXP • Leverage networking for Audio-Video Conferencing System • Multicast – broadcast without retransmission • Lost packet problem • Performance in wireless environments could be awful

40. Application vision • Integrated presentation and student note taking • Students would take notes on instructional materials on their machines • Student control of their workspace • Peer to peer communication model • Student submissions sent by students • Students could send a subset of their inking

41. 10 reasons why Classroom Presenter is better than PowerPoint Richard Anderson Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington

42. Simple pen based UI Instructor Notes Film strip navigation Slide previews Lecture export to HTML Extra writing space Distributed Presentation Full screen erase Multideck model Default Inking 10 reasons why Classroom Presenter is better than PowerPoint

43. Classroom Presenter 3.0 • From scratch rewrite of CP 2.0 • Aging code base • Clean up the code architecture • Discard unnecessary features • Improvements • TCP/IP Networking • Improved Ink Performance • Direct Import of PPT