Tablet PC and Mobile PC Users: Share Your Experiences With Us

Posted by | 11/21/2008 | 18 Comments

We received an email from a high school student last night asking for some help. He’s doing a research paper on Tablet PCs, Mobile PCs, mobility, etc, and could really use our help in collecting some user experience data. This is where you come in.

Please answer the following questions and submit them as a comment to this post. Your help would be greatly appreciated. To sweeten the deal and show how much we want to help this student out, we’ll pick a random winner from all those who submit answers, and award that person a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com. Let’s give this high school student a ton of useful information, k?

Here are the questions:

1)           How long have you been in the mobile device world? A la your experience.
2)           Do you use tablet/mobile devices in your field of work, if so how?
3)           What devices do you use?
4)           Have you had a moment or experience where you thought to yourself ““Dang I’m glad I have <insert device here>”. Explain.
5)           Can you ever see yourself going back to the pre-mobile era?

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  • http://www.tech4teaching.org/wpblog Tami Brass

    1) I've been using laptops since 1989, but I've only been using a tablet for 3 years.
    2) I'm a middle school teacher at a school with 1:1 laptops. Teachers at my school have been using tablets for close to 4 years. We've just started using tablets as a student laptop. Our kids do everything from make video/audio projects to sharing science and math notebooks with teachers via our network with OneNote.
    3) Toshiba M700 tablets.
    4) When we first started doing OneNote notebook sharing. Imagine being in middle school and never having to hand in paper homework! We have kids create shared notebooks in a shared folder with their teacher. They go home and ink their assignments in their notebooks. When they come back to school, they sync their notebook. That's all it takes to turn in the assignment.
    5) No. For most of my teaching career, I've been a Mac person, but my tablet has converted me. Kids create incredible drawings, Ink flashcards, take notes in their reading, have electronic lab notebooks for science… Paper could never engage kids this way!

  • Tim

    1) How long have you been in the mobile device world? A la your experience. :Laptops since the DEC Vaxmate in the late 1980's, palm since the Palm III
    2) Do you use tablet/mobile devices in your field of work, if so how? yes I use a tablet in my daily work as a consultant & facilitator, taking notes and drawing to enhance presentations.
    3) What devices do you use? AT&T Tilt & Fujitsu T4220 tablet.
    4) Have you had a moment or experience where you thought to yourself “Dang I’m glad I have <insert device here>”. Explain. Yes both of my devices. I have been in many environments where my Mobile PC/Phone has helped me in responding to customer quickly via mobile email, GPS to get me around traffic & to my appointments, and retrieving information from the internet. The tablet PC has allowed me to become paperless, I take notes & print everything to my tablet, and file them all in OneNote just like a file drawer.
    5) Can you ever see yourself going back to the pre-mobile era? I could if I was in another line of work. But my current responsibilities include traveling & various actions & projects that need to be followed & worked, and the ability to take all of this work with me, look at it and edit it at a moments notice on my mobile device, provides me with the productivity I need to be successful.

  • http://tablettutor.blogspot.com tablettutor

    1)Bought my first Tablet PC hp1100 when they first came out
    2) I take it to meetings instead of paper. I have years of handwritten notes on it. My kids use them for school and I am experimenting with distance tutoring via tablet.
    3) I now have several tablets plus an iphone.
    4) Every time I use the tablet. BTW, when I got the TC 1100 I took the keyboard off and never used it. You can’t do that on the new ones. But the real ah ha was when I discovered programs to help kids learn using the stylus instead of keyboarding.
    5) My whole system of working is based on the tablets. I could never go back to pieces of paper with hand written notes all over the place.

    Check out the blog about using tablets for distance tutoring. This is a powerful new technology.

    http://tablettutor.blogspot.com
    http://autismtechblog.blogspot.com

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