Teaching with Tablet PC’s

SO, I found out something bad about DyKnow today.  Let me back up, though.

We only have 23 tablets to give out to students,  I have 46 in the class.  We planned to have all students have access to the DyKnow server, regardless of whether they use one in class.  Thus, they could see my lecture notes after class on their home computer. We are assessing whether student who use DyKnow in class do better than those who use DyKnow only at home.  Problem is;  DyKnow will NOT let you share your files with those who did not participate(logon) in the class with a tablet!!!  This is a huge problem.  I am quite sure that our DyKnow rep. told us we could do this and it turns out we cannot!!  Bummer!!  To share the lecture notes I will have to save the file NOT to the DyKnow, but to my hard drive, then transfer them to a Moodle website via FrontPage or other web editing program. . .   More work for me!!

If it weren’t for the cool polling features, this would be just like I did last year with Classroom Presenter. It ends up being at least 20 minutes doing this stuff after class. . . .