Schools in Finland are buying tablets like crazy now. The weird thing is that nobody really knows what they are really good for in school environment, but everybody seems to see good potential in them. That’s why we are also experimenting with tablets. This prototype is all about bringing more social and collaborative aspects to [...]
In my aim to find an answer to the question: “can our teachers replace laptops with tablets?“ I’ve done a little testing. But before we look at that, let’s just have a short look at the presumptions one could have about using tablets and that, in fact, I did have before starting out. The tablet [...]
In this post I will deal with writing on the android -tablet, Acer Iconia 500 tab, I’ve been trying out for a about a week now. While I do this I’m projecting my mind, so to speak, into a classroom and school setting. When one is asked to evaluate a new thing, be it what [...]
Why is someone interested in the possibilities of using tablets or pads in education? Well, it’s novel. New technology and tools that let’s the user access and do stuff with digital data in new ways is interesting. Combine this with the ongoing trend of developing pedagogical practice by the use of new tools in education [...]
Thank you Andreas Lagerkvist for Live Search plugin. This will turn a normal form input element in to a live ajax search widget. I added few configuration options to this plugin: minLength: minimum number of characters width: the number of pixels in the div-element of results. Can also be set to ‘auto’. We also needed [...]
MimioTeach is quite different from other tested whiteboard models as it doesn’t actually have a whiteboard, but just a receiver that can be placed on any flat surface. It is meant to be used with normal inkboards, but really any surface should work. Touch recognition is done with a pen that makes quiet buzzing noise [...]
Smartboard participated in the project later than other with a short quick notice, so we couldn’t give it as much time as for others. Here at Opinsys we are most familiar with Smartboards as our customers have been using them for some time. Having a test whiteboard outside production systems gave us a chance to [...]
Promethean is traditional wallmounted interactive whiteboard. The model in our tests was pen controlled Activboard ABV378S300. Touch is recognised when the pen touches the board physically. The tested whiteboard didn’t have loudspeakers, so we couldn’t test how well they work with linux, but in our understanding there are such models available. The whiteboard looks nice [...]
Our interactive whiteboard testing project is finally getting finished and it’s time to wrap up the findings. We have focused on testing the boards’ technical usability on linux. Pedagogical usability and deeper analysis of features has not been done as part of this project as we need to first find out which whiteboard models actually [...]
This article continues our article series on interactive whiteboards on linux: Interactive whiteboards and linux Interactive whiteboard software comparison Installing interactive whiteboard software on Ubuntu Last week our conference room was turned in to a test laboratory as we took a deep look at different interactive whiteboards and their linux support. The general feeling I [...]
