Plenary Output Expert Forum Tablet PCs 2007

Plenary output collected at the end of the Expert Forum at the COLMSCT CETL Thursday 5 July. Contributions from IET, Science, Maths and Computing and Technology, at OU.

Keith Beechener kindly took the outputs from the plenary and sent to me as e-mail attachment saved as .ppt and .jnt. Have converted .ppt to .jpeg to get up-loaded to blog as cannot up-load other formats.

Reason that Keith may have saved as .jnt, is that on the Tablet PC project we printed our .doc to Windows Journal and this allowed the creation of the virtual layer above the .doc. At this stage annotation is possible without slippage, when finally happy with feedback, the .jnt can either be saved for re-editing or saved as a .mhtml.

As an aside, to view a .jnt document on a PC, a special piece of software is needed from Microsoft to be able to read a it.

Hope that makes sense as it has been a real vovage of discovery, trying to work out how to create virtual layers with the software in a Tablet PC.

Although I cannot load the .jnt up onto blog.

Future Dissemination 2007/2008

Autumn 2007

I am looking forward to co-presenting with two COLMSCT CETL teaching fellows, Keith Beechener and Bill Tait:

Presentation ‘Making the Technology fit the Pedagogy’ at the inaugural SoTL Commons: An International Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning on November 1 - 2, 2007 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia (USA).

This is an International Academic Conference;
The inaugural SoTL Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning will be held November 1 - 2, 2007 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia (USA).
http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/
Presenters are from Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, England, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Swaziland, Switzerland, and the United States.

Dissemination of Findings 2006/2007

Dissemination of findings of Tablet PC project in assessment past events;

2006;

Posters
ISSOTL Conference The Innovative use of Mobile Technology in on-line electronic assessment Wendy Fisher Washington D.C. 8 – 12 November 2006

http://www.indiana.edu/~issotl06/index.html

Presentation
Short Presentation ‘ ISSOTL and COLMSCT’ at the COLMSCT CETL - Journal Club 14 December 2006

2007;

Papers and Presentations
Conference Paper and Presentation – ‘Working with distance learners, learning from each other, about Mobile Technology in e-assessment, wiki supported’ Open University Curriculum, Teaching, and Student Support Conference, Theme – Taking the Lead: Teaching our future Learners( Strand – Maths, Mobile and Team Working) 1-2 May 2007

Co-author Short Paper – pending ‘Interface modalities that enhance or inhibit lecturers’ assessment ‘flow’ experiences’ unpublished 2007

The Pedagogy of On-Line Assessment and Technology in Distance Learning, peer reviewed paper accepted but not submitted for IADIS 2007, International Conference, e-learning 6 - 8 July, Lisbon, Portugal.
Camera ready copy but unable to attend the conference
http://www.elearning-conf.org/

Expert Forum

Paper Technology, Flow in Assessment Task and Flow in the Interface
COLMSCT CETL Open Univeristy July 5 2007

Working with Technology in Assessment

Since 2005, I have been working as a Teaching Fellow at the COLMSCT CETL based at the Open University who have funded a project, in which ten lecturers have been using Tablet PCs to provide feedback to one hundred and fifty students. Students submit their work to lecturers in .doc format who provide their feedback using the Tablet PC to first create a layer over the students piece of assessment. Once the virtual layer has been created over the students piece of work, a lecturer can annotate the .doc at points in a students script that are relevant to the points that need to be raised.

Some of the most useful tools in the Tablet PC tool bar, to use in providing feedback are, the electronic highlighter and eraser.

Current reseaerch has shown that lecturers marking electronic tutor marked assignments, typically .doc, are able to provide personalised feedback at a relevant point in a student's piece of assessment using paper technology such as a Tablet PC., evalutaion through in-depth interview and questionnaire, shows that this was important to both students and lecturers alike.

Some lecturers have felt that the Tablet PC allows greater creativity in assessment than technologies such as paper and pen and PC and a keyboard input device.