Ubiquitous Presenter: Supporting Active Learning in the Classroom and more! http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~bsimon/HP2010 to download files you will need for today

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Ubiquitous Presenter Supporting Active Learning
in the Classroom and more!http//www.cs.ucsd.edu/
bsimon/HP2010to download files you will need
for today
William Griswold, Beth Simon University of
California, San Diego
Ed Price California State Univ., San Marcos
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UP supports active learning

• Instructor slides (and ink) broadcast on web
  live in class.
• Students point browser and follow along
• At a give point, instructor has activity set up
  (or makes one up on spot)
• Instructor turns on student submissions
• Students choose a link on web site to make
• MCQ/ink/text answer and hit send
• Student answers show up as slides on instructor
  machine.
• Instructor can preview (privately)
• Click on slide to project for class

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UP Overview

• Variant of Classroom Presenter
• Not just for Tablets, Using TCP/IP-web
  insfrastructure
• Supports
• Instructor inking
• Instructor objects
• Automatic web-archiving and per-ink stroke review
  by students
• Active learning via web browser
• Inked (Java applet), typed text, polling
• Cell phone/SMS (polling, typed text, photo)
• New Features
• NoteBlogging
• Lightweight peer review of student activities
• Improved Performance
• Host your own server
• Beta Features (available for testing now)
• Tagging
• Personal Typed Notetaking
• Noteblogging with Chat

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Getting Started with Ubiquitous Presenter

• Make a lecture
• Using PowerPoint (start with SampleLecture today)
• From other formats (not today)
• Finishing your lecture
• Store lecture to a UP classroom on the web
• Save a Classroom Presenter file (.CSD)
• Lecture! (with a partner)
• Launch Classroom Presenter on your Tablet
• Connect to lecture on web
• Ink, watch it appear on web
• Do active learning exercise
• Turn on submissions
• Have partner make several submissions
• Practice reviewing, showing for class

Active learning NEXT!
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Odd Things About Today

• Everyone is using the same dummy Instructor
  account
• Instructor login hp2010
• Instructor Password hp2010
• Everyone is using the same classroom
  (UPWorkshop2010)
• Normally you made a new classroom for each term
  (e.g. CSE3_SP06)
• Everyone will be making a lecture in the same
  classroom
• Please save your lecture as FirstInitial_LastName
  
• Well practice lecturing in pairs, taking turns
• One person lecture, the other play student and
  watch with a web browser
• Lecturers wont be connected to a digital
  projector

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How did I set up a classroom?

• Let me show you, on the web.
• How will students enroll in this class?
• Let me show you, on the web.
• This class has no password.

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Please find a partner

• 1) Open the lecture SampleLecture.ppt
• 2) Modify the SampleLecture.ppt on the first page
  to have your name.
• 3) WAIT! For Instruction on Instructor Notes!

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Hidden Instructor Notes
Object Toolbar
View Toolbar
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Instructor Notes

• Object Tool Bar
• Anything you can click on is an object
• To make an object an instructor object
• Click on the object, Click on the Instructor
  toolbar button
• To make an object viewable by all
• Click on the object, Click on the Unrestricted
  toolbar button
• View Tool Bar
• Base Mode Shows what the students will see (what
  is projected)
• Instructor Mode Shows all base mode AND the
  notes only you will see

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Finishing your lecture 2 parts, done with one
click

• Save to Ubiquitous Presenter format (.CSD) and
  also put in correct classroom on website
• Choose Export to CSD and Web
• First you will be asked to login to the UP server
  (login hp2010 password hp2010) to upload your
  lecture
• Select your classroom UPWorkshop2010
• Name your lecture FirstInit_LastName
• Then your .CSD will be saved on your local
  Tablet(this is the file you will double click to
  start CP in lecture)
• Save it on your desktop! (Name it whatever you
  want)
• When you open that lecture in class, it will know
  what classroom and lecture you are in

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Look on the UP class web site for your lecture

• Point a browser to http//up.ucsd.edu
• Login using the instructor login (hp2010, hp2010)
• You should see a list of classrooms owned by
  instructor hp2010
• Choose the UPWorkshop2010 classroom
• You should see a list of lectures
• Choose yours (e.g. J_Smith)
• You can now look through your slides
• Note the instructor notes are not visible!

• Students can make their own logins to the
  classrooms to enroll in classes sothey can
  view lectures.
• Instructors can control which students have
  access by requiring a password for enrollment.

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Lets lecture! Pick a partner to go first, She
will

• Minimize your browser (you dont need it)
• Find the .CSD file you created on your local
  machine from PPT and double tap on it.
• Ubiquitous Presenter should launch and
  automatically ask youfor your password

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Let the Lecture begin!

• You are ready to lecture!
• Draw some ink on your main slide.
• In a few seconds, it will show up on a student
  web browser (your partner), IF he is on the
  CORRECT LECTURE (yours) AND he is Live under
  Navigation

PLAY! Change slides, ink, erase, shrink slide,
go to whiteboard!
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Active Learning akaStudent Submissions

• Move to slide 5 (Which of these things is not
  like the other)
• In Presenter, click on Enable Submissions
• PARTNER In your web browser
• Click on text, ink, image or multiple choice
  submission
• Links on right under Navigation Mode
• Type/Draw/Select a Radio Button
• Play with all kinds!
• Hit submit
• WAIT!

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Reviewing Student Submissions

• Instructor Click on Show Submissions from top
  menu list (its red when there are some)
• Your main window should show your
  partner/students submission
• Its not shown to the class (you can preview)
• To project it, double tap on it
• You can ink on it
• PARTNER Web browser will follow along
• Want to show more?
• Go back to original slide and click show
  submissions again

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Preview More Submissions in Main Pane (double
click to show class)
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Supporting all devices

• Students interact with any web-enabled device
  through a browser (cell phones coming soon!)
• Ink solutions can be done with laptop OR Tablet
• Require Java to be installed
• Text solutions
• Only require a browser
• Enter text in a box, then click to place it on
  the screen
• Can be moved, updated later
• More text boxes can be made
• Multiple Choice solutions
• Choice of how many times students can vote
• Results summarized and can be repeatedly polled
• Image Submissions
• Allows you to have students submit screen shots
  from other applications

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Browser Based Instructor Classroom Management
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Summary

• Tablet PCs can enhance learning in the classroom
• Ubiquitous Presenter can be used with a single
  Tablet to allow spontaneity and bring discussion
  to the electronic lecture
• Automatically stores lecture ink on web
• Multiple tablets or laptops enables student
  activities and active learning
• Anonymity can be a benefit
• Student work available for instructor review
  after class

preprepared materials and interactive
take out key words
http//up.ucsd.edu to set up a hosted class!
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Acknowledgements

• UCSD Team
• Krista Davis, Tamara Denning, Eli Friedman, Aaron
  Hieber, Mark Kinsella, James Lintern, Roshni
  Malani, Pierre Rahja, William G. Griswold
• University of Washington Classroom Presenter
• Microsoft Research Tablet PCs in Education
• Hewlett Packard TFT Grant

http//up.ucsd.edu to set up a hosted class!