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 Heather Hough

What is your current computer manufacturer?

 HP

What is your computer model?  It may be printed on the bottom of the machine.

 2710 12 in.

How often do you use the following with your Tablet PC?
  Multiple Times Per Day Weekly Monthly 
  12345Rarely
Outlook 
Word 
Excel 
PowerPoint 
Publisher 
OneNote 
Internet Browsing 
Other (please describe in Comment field below) 

Please detail how you have used your tablet PC during instruction in the last two weeks.  Subjects/topics/software/activities/etc...  Are you at your desk/podium/moving around classroom/etc.

8th grade: PowerPoint (PPT) for notes about mirrors; I'm moving around the classroom, using the mobile PPT clicker that I own. Additionally, I needed to stand at the front of the room (at the computer) some because I wrote some notes entries on the PowerPoint slide using my stylus. Later, I showed a ScienceWorld video clip from internet about fast food. (It was associated with a ScienceWorld article that students had read.) Chemistry: PowerPoint for notes about atoms and the periodic table. I moved around the room some, but I also needed to move to the computer because I wrote some entries on my PowerPoint slides. Earlier, I used PPT to define terms relating to the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure, using my stylus to emphasize or add items to the presentation. I then used OneNote to model sample problems using these equations. Once the problem was previously worked out; the other time, I worked the problem in front of the class. Physics: PowerPoint for notes about pendulum features and about electromagnetic induction (on different days). I moved around the room some, but when I transitioned to using OneNote for my sample problems, I moved to the computer so that I could write additional items on the work that I had written earlier with the stylus. I also had YouTube video clips ready for use, but ran out of time. (Note: the computer cannot move around the room because the battery has something like 10 minutes of capability left) Note: I use the tablet for lesson preparation as well--I did not detail this because it was not requested. I use Word and OneNote a lot in lesson preparation

Please detail your use of the stylus and/or touchscreen of your tablet PC in the last two weeks.  What subjects, software, activities, etc.  Is a touchscreen acceptable, or do you need an active stylus for precision writing?
The stylus is very important to me and makes the tablet the GREAT tool that it is.  I depend on it.  PLEASE don't take it away from me (unless you know of an improvement).  Here are some of the ways that I used it during the last week:

8th grade science:  I needed to stand at the front of the room (at the computer) some because I wrote some notes entries on the PowerPoint slide using my stylus. Additionally, the stylus was invaluable during this unit about waves because I use the stylus to draw most of my transverse waves:  on Word documents as well as on PPT.  This occurred both during instruction and during lesson preparation.

Chemistry:  I used the stylus to write some entries on my previously typed PowerPoint slides about the periodic table.  Earlier, I used PPT to define terms relating to the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure, using my stylus to emphasize or add items to the presentation. I then used OneNote to model sample problems using these equations.  One time, the problem was previously worked out--I had written the solution out ahead of time using the stylus; the other time, I worked out the problem's solution in front of the class.  I used the stylus in both cases.

Physics:  I transitioned to using OneNote for my sample problems. I moved to the computer so that I could use the stylus to write additional items on the problem solutions that I had written earlier, using the stylus.

To what new/newer computer would you prefer to upgrade?

 Windows 8

I prefer this screen size:

 Don't care

How will you use technology differently when we upgrade your computer?
I confess that I do not know the answer to this question. This is because I do not know the following: a) what the new technology is capable of; and b) whether it is useful and reliable in the classroom. I do know that I grew into the new technology that I was presented with in 2007(?). I constantly used it in new ways in the years following that, even this year. I fully expect that I will continue to do the same in the years to come.

What kind of assistance would you like to have from your school instructional technology resource teacher?
At the moment, I do not have any pressing needs that fall under my ITRT's jurisdiction--my big request would be reliable wireless connection in the classroom for my students. (I've 3 situations this year where students were unable to do their work due to poor wireless connection, and I refuse to engage in any more such work in my classroom until the issue is fixed--I will use the computer lab for all such acitivities.) 

Should I get an upgraded computer, I expect that I will have questions, and I will ask those questions as they come up.

Comments
How I use my Tablet PC: I also use my Tablet PC to show assorted videos from YouTube or from the teacher link to ScienceWorld magazine.

Created at 4/10/2014 5:26 PM by ***
Last modified at 4/10/2014 5:26 PM by ***