Students can score a free Xbox 360 with the purchase of a Windows computer thanks to a new promotion from Microsoft. Resurrecting last year’s popular buy a Window PC, get an Xbox 360 promotion, Microsoft partnered with six U.S. retailers to offer a free 4GB Xbox 360 to students that buy a Windows PC priced over $699. [...]
Education systems and school administrators looking to outfit their students with laptops have a new choice in the ThinkPad X130e, Lenov’s newest notebook for the K-12 set. Built to withstand slightly less than gentle treatment at the hands of kids, this rugged little machine is built to last. Add to that some robust internal specs [...]
Yale Medical School greeted students this week with the best back to school gift you can give a medical student, aside from free tuition, a 64GB 3G iPad 2 to use for classes and clinical work. The school picked the iPad as a new student learning tool after a trial program last year tested well with [...]
Lumens is proud of their new medusa-like, HD ready DC260 visual presenter. The DC260 features 1080p HDMI output, audio and video processor for full frame video recording to an SD card, 3x optical zoom, true SXGA output, and double lamp design for plenty of illumination. According to Lumens, the DC260 is easily the [...]
Computer Shopper has a nice little video on why students should be using tablet pc technology in school. Can any of our student readers give us some more reasons? How do you see tablet technology impacting your studies on a day to day basis? >> > via Active Ink Software Technorati Tags: [...]
The Workshop on the Impact of Pen-Based Technology on Education (WIPTE) is a great conference opportunity for those in education with an interest in Tablets and other pen-based technologies. This workshop is the closest thing to a dedicated conference on Tablet PC technology that there is. It is a Tablet PC enthusiasts dream. Check out [...]
Check out this video demonstration of SynergyNet, a multi-touch framework that runs on top of a gaming and physics engine. The research project has the following goals: Aim 1: To create a radically new technology-rich learning environment that integrates with traditional classroom layouts and collective activities. Aim 2: To design and implement a new form [...]
Those who have been around Tablet PCs the past four to five years can remember StudentTabletPC.com growing out of a single forum thread from TabletPCBuzz.com. Tracy Hooten and Trevor Claiborne started the site as a dedicated source of information for students and Tablet PCs, and they were quite successful. The site has always been a [...]
The Tuscaloosa Academy has switched some students over to Tablet PCs for their learning. Check out the article and the video about the school making the move. They talk about hardware problems in making the switch, but do say that the problems are just of a different kind. It appears that the kids really like [...]
It’s that time again for school to start back up. This Inkshow will focus on the hardware that I use in order to maximize productivity and stay organized. I also touch on accessories that makes life just a bit easier for me when I’m home and when I’m mobile. Take a look, leave some feedback, [...]
Microsoft is offering Office Ultimate to students for the unreal price of $59.95. All you need is to have a .edu email address and be registered for at least 0.5 credit hours in case MS decides to come asking for proof of your enrollment for whatever reason. Office Ultimate retails for $679, so this is [...]
Eliot Graff, a former English professor and current programmer and technical writer/editor/blogger has found a new book dealing with tablet PCs and education. The International Society for Technology in Education has released their latest volume titled Tablet PCs in K-12 Education. Being a big proponent of tablet PCs being integrated into secondary educational systems, I’m [...]
I remember being in high school and being totally envious of smart kids like those from Amador Valley High School. They have formed a Robotics club to work on autonomous undersea vehicles, competing ( and placing!) against the likes of large universities from India, Japan, and the US. How cool is that! Powering their sub [...]
If you have a son or daughter going off to college or if you are in college yourself, don’t miss PDF Annotator for Students for $29.90. It’s the full Version 2 with special pricing for those of us in education. McKay Whitney, a regular site contributor, alerted us to the special pricing this morning. With [...]
What better way to do market research than to ask students for their input on what they consider are important aspects of computers. Lenovo employed two interns over the summer who were very familiar with tabletPC’s and education. They created a head-to-head video comparison between their HP tablet and the Lenovo X61t. Being a tabletPC [...]
Loyal GBM reader Steve asks, “Since you. . .seem to have used tablets in education, why aren’t more students carrying these things, and how do we get tablets into their hands?” As a public high school language arts and communications instructor, I have had many opportunities to implement technology into my lessons. I have tried [...]
HP announced today a large scale deployment of the HP 2133 Mini-Note to the Fresno (Calif) United School District. The 7,000 Mini-Notes are going to kids in K-12. ““The HP Mini-Note is a powerful laptop that is small enough to fit on students’ desks along with their textbooks and papers, allowing them access to the [...]
If there is an area that excites me as much as mobile technology it is education. The potential of marrying up the right technology with different education scenarios like public schools, private schools, cottage schools, home schools, and colleges are tremendous. It looks like Lenovo and DyKnow recognize the same thing, as they have partnered [...]
If the folks on the OneNote team know how to do anything, it is designing great note-taking software and blogging about it OneNote team member Mike Tholfsen just began a new OneNote blog centered around education, entitled “OneNote and Education“. There couldn’t be a better product geared toward students and teachers than OneNote, so the [...]
There’s a new Tablet PC math game in town thanks to the folks from Carnegie-Mellon. Unfortunately, I have not found any download links to the software, but I’ll see what I can uncover. From Peninsula On-Line Carnegie Mellon University has developed an innovative Tablet PC based system for learning mathematics through games. The system will [...]
University of Louisville engineering students have formed a Student Tablet User Group and started a website to help educate fellow students about Tablet PCs, the software, and other general how-to’s. They’ve produced ten video tutorials since January 1. One of my favorites is a video on what not to do with your tablet: play games [...]
We all know that Tablet PC technology really shines when implemented in schools. Bishop Hartley High School, one of the very first schools to implement Tablet PC technology, was recently featured in this story confirming the learning advantages that Tablet PC technology offers: Research shows most students like the benefits. “Instead of carrying around a [...]
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says he wants to “equip a new generation of technology leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to harness the magic of software.” So, he’s giving away software development software to current high school and college students.
Any Tablet PC students out there want to draw a doodle for the Google homepage? This just might be your opportunity. Google is running a contest for students in grades K-12 to design a doodle for the Google homepage. The winner will also receive a $10,000 college scholarship, plus a technology grant for their school. [...]
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: schools and Tablet PC’s go together like peanut butter and jelly. They were made for each other. Check this story out about the Sparta Township Public School System expanding their Tablet PC program, due in large part to a grant: The Sparta Education Foundation Board of [...]
Even though Bill Gates is headed into retirement this summer, Tablet PC will remain a focus of his as he continues to work at Microsoft part-time. This is evidenced in a speech he gave on January 23rd at the Government Leaders Form. Here are a few snippets, but you’ll need to read the entire thing [...]
Several weeks ago, I wrote a five year anniversary article looking Tablet PC software companies. One of the companies that seemed to have dropped out of the scene altogether was Agilix. Most folks know Agilix by GoBinder, a notetaking application they brought to market 3 – 4 years ago. While they have not updated GoBinder [...]
Lora Heiny, the First Lady of Tablet PCs, sent us over a link on a Microsoft case study in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), the largest school district in Kentucky. JCPS had been dissatisfied with the overall use of technology in the classrooms despite having a significant investment in Macs in the classrooms. After an [...]
Petri Purho, of Kloonigames, wrote a cool application called Crayon Physics and Crayon Physics Deluxe. He just got around to testing it out on a Tablet PC, and I have to say it looks really, really cool. What kid or student wouldn’t love this? Watch the video below, then read more and download it here: [...]
Five years of Tablet PCs and kids are still getting excited about using them in school. Check out this picture Tristan Hanna after getting his HP TC4400 Tablet PC at Monte Cassino School. Priceless. From Tulsa World: Teachers at Monte Cassino School think their students are learning a lesson from their new computers that has [...]
Lora over at WhatIsNew is also very interested in Tablet PCs in the education space, so I was very interested when she posted about a new book she found titled "The Impact of Tablet PCs and Pen-based Technology: Beyond the Tipping Point (2007)". The book is an update to a version printed last year, and [...]
Many believe that the holy grail for Tablet PC and UMPC success is the education sector. For many reasons, the education sector has many problems that Tablet PC technology aims to solve. There is a reason that Dell is quietly targeting the education space with its XT Tablet PC. They have apparently lost a lot [...]
Andrew Ferguson is an author at StudentTabletPC.com…when homework and exams permit. This is the first in a series of guest posts for GottaBeMobile. This article was originally going to be about batteries and battery management. Well, it still is. But not in the way you might think. I wanted to write an awesome article about [...]
Our readership on GottaBeMobile.com is quite diverse – from business people, to stay-at-home moms, to medical professionals, to students – we definitely cover a wide audience and diverse group of readers with some unique, yet common needs. Andrew Ferguson, of StudentTabletPC.com, is going to be guest-authoring several articles for us, focusing on mobile issues that students [...]
Jim Vanides from HP has started posting some short video clips aimed at showing educators what the Tablet PC platform can do to help them in the classroom. These are great videos for everyone, not just educators. The first tip on annotating with PowerPoint is an excellent tutorial for anyone who wants a short, compelling [...]
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