Comments on: How to get Tablet PCs into schools

By: jk

jk — Fri, 13 May 2005 23:41:12 +0000

Tracy, I am in Houston which is not too far from your school. We need to organize some sort of demo to show off the benefits Tablets bring to students.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 13 May 2005 22:56:15 +0000

I have not seen one tablet this semester (that wasn’t mine), which is sad, since my campus is the second largest in the nation, I think. I know they’re there, but I haven’t seen them.

Agilix has been working with my school to set up BlackBoard with GoBinder, so in that case I can get a first hand look at the utility, but I’m pretty sure I could get a pretty in depth review out for y’all before then, too ^_^. Give me two weeks!

By: Trevor Claiborne

Trevor Claiborne — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:54:15 +0000

I don’t use GoBinder, but I’ll see if Tracy can get a review up of the Mobilizer.

I am seeing more tablets around Berkeley. The shift is coming.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2005 13:27:07 +0000

Student Tablet PC is an excellent resource and I look forward to being able to make meaningful contributions and having students at my school do the same. I’m really after a place for educators and technical administrators… It would be nice to see a review of the BlackBoard Mobilizer part of Agilix GoBinder for example… I may have to start my own site after our program is started if no one else yet has beat me to it.

The Vermont Slate (http://vermontslate.blogspot.com/) is another useful site, but still not quite right. Certainly forums are key!

By: jk

jk — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:10:32 +0000

Mike, an excellent resource for students using Tablet information is The Student Tablet PC blog and forums. It is run by students for students and has a ton of useful information that fits what you are trying to do. There are a number of medical students who post frequently in the forums, too. http://studenttabletpc.blogs.com/

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2005 11:05:23 +0000

I’ve posted here a couple times, mainly because one of my primary work responsibilities at this point is to evaluate the usefulness of tablet pcs for medical students. At this point, the school plans to require incoming students in 2006 to purchase a specific tablet that we will decide on. We are evaluating the HP TC1100 and the Toshiba M205. Obviously this is a little tricky since I cannot fortell what products will be available in the Fall of 2006.

Anyhow, the push is happening and other schools are doing the same. I think the marketplace is getting ready to have someone out there create an comprehensive online resource for schools using tablets. There are a lot of questions about notetaking applications, textbook ereaders and the like that could stand to be funneled into a single point… I’m not sure that resource exists yet.

By: apainter

apainter — Thu, 12 May 2005 16:04:01 +0000

Excellent stuff. I work in this field and it’s great see someone like this young lady and other youngsters taking advantage of the technology.

My AT department is investigating using Tablets to assist a few of our students. Glad to see we aren’t alone in that effort.