Problem Solving Using Mobile Teams and

Digital Ink

2007 Conference on Information TechnologyNovember 13, 20075:00 PM – 6:00PM

Rock and Roll, Level Four, Renaissance Hotel

Who Are We?Montgomery County Community College

Blue Bell, PA

• Marie HartleinAssociate Professor, Computer Sciencemhartlein@mc3.edu

• Linda MoultonProfessor, Math and Computer Sciencelmoulton@mc3.edu

• Patricia RahmlowAssistant Professor, Computer Scienceprahmlow@mc3.edu

http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html

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2006 Higher Education HP Technology for Teaching Grant Initiative

• HP seeks to support development of mobile technology environments.

• HP seeks to increase the pipeline of students graduating with degrees in engineering, computer science and business

• Since 2003, over 260 college and university recipients of HP Technology for Teaching Grants

• Approximately 40 grants awarded in 2006 on the collegiate level. We were one of them!

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/grants/us/programs/tech_teaching/higher_ed_main.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

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Problem Solving Using

Mobile Teams and Digital Ink Project Overview

Our vision is a learning environment at MCCC that will incorporate mobile tablet technology into a dynamic computer science classroom experience.

A variety of activities utilizing tablet technology in a collaborative learning environment will be used to encourage active learning.

Project innovations will empower students to succeed in education and in the workplace of the future.

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Problem Solving Using

Mobile Teams and Digital Ink Key Ingredients

Mobile Teams --• Small group interaction • Seamless migration from group to group

Problem Solving --• Pseudocode & Flowcharting• Design Walkthroughs

Note Taking –• Use of tablet pen and conversion from handwriting to

electronic form• Organization with note flags, searching, audio recording, web

citations• Collaboration through features such as note sharing

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Problem Solving Using

Mobile Teams and Digital Ink Project Status

• Grant awarded 5/06 • Summer 2006

– IT department installs hardware – Faculty team begins development of tablet

PC related course content and assessment tools

• September 2006 – Present– Faculty team pilots tablet PC related

course content in introductory computer science course

– Weekly team meetings

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Problem Solving Using

Mobile Teams and Digital Ink Tablet Activities

• Shared team sessions for project collaboration– Pseudocode– Web research– Problem solving

• Projection of Team Code• Get acquainted activity• Note taking

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2007 HP Technology Higher Education Leadership Award

• Leadership awards are additional, higher value grants awarded to HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients whose projects demonstrate success in their first year of implementation

• Approximately 10 grants were awarded in 2007 on the collegiate level. We were one of them!

• Leadership Grants provide 40 tablets for students, two teacher stations, a poster printer, and an additional camera

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Collaborative Problem Solving Using Mobile Teams, Visualization and Digital Ink

Project Overview

• Team expanded to include additional CIS and Communication faculty

• Build on successful strategies implemented in CS1 from the 2006 HP grant

• Redesign second level CIS course (CS2) to– facilitate mobile teams– foster collaboration with other CIS courses– encourage note taking – use more visual tools such as Enterprise Architect UML, media

computation and Classroom Presenter

• Redesign entry-level Communication course sequence to improve information and media literacy skills

• Evaluate additional CIS courses for redesign in future semesters

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Joys

• Enthusiasm & Flexibility of Students

• Exposure to Current Technology

• Student & Faculty Collaboration

• IT Support

• AdvancedTechnologyCenter

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Challenges

• Security (physical)

• Wireless network access

• Projection of teacher tablet

• Deep Freeze

• Logistics / class time

• Web surfing

• Access outside of class

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Team Projection

Connect with Linq™ Software

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Team Projection

Project and Share

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Let’s Get Acquainted

• Ice breaker activity– Sample activity

document

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Let’s Get Acquainted

• Inking feature in action

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Host Live Sharing Session

• Open OneNote 2007Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

• Start Live Sharing Session– Share > Live Sharing Session > Start Sharing Current

Section– Click Start Live Sharing Session button– Click Shared Address Information button– Share Address Information with participants

• Leave Live Sharing Session– Click Leave Live Sharing Session button

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Join Live Sharing Session

• Open OneNote 2007Start > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

• Start Live Sharing Session– Share > Live Sharing Session > Join Existing Session– Enter the Shared Session Address

• Leave Live Sharing Session– Click Leave Live Sharing Session button

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Live Sharing Session in Action

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