| Date | Speaker | Talk |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Richard Anderson, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington | Promoting Student Engagement with Classroom Presenter |
Classroom Presenter is a Tablet PC-based classroom interaction system developed at University of Washington. The system supports the real time sharing of electronic slides and digital ink between the instructor and the students. The instructor delivers a lecture by writing on slides, and also can receive submissions from students which can be shown on a public display. This allows the instructor to include student work into the classroom discussion. This accomplishes a number of pedagogical goals including active learning, providing feedback for the instructor, and increasing the participation of the students. This talk includes a brief overview of the system and deployments, followed by a discussion of the pedagogy that is being developed around pen-based interaction in the classroom.
Speaker Bio: Richard Anderson is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. He joined the University of Washington in 1986, after a one-year Postdoc at the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, CA. In 1987 he received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. He spent the 1993-1994 academic year as a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore, India, and the 2001-2002 academic year a visiting researcher in the Learning Sciences and Technology group at Microsoft Research. While at Microsoft, he led the development of Classroom Presenter, a tool for delivering presentations from the TabletPC.
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http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/dl/presenter/