New Tablet

Because I have fallen a bit behind in my planned curriculum, I finally got to use my new tablet today in class. What fun!

While students worked on their own grammar review, I worked on the tablet while circulating the classroom. When I noticed that students were ahead, I gave the tablet to a student who could do the work on the tablet and share their process with their classmates projected on the screeen. Of course, they begged to be the one who could "write" on the tablet.

I still must keep my eyes up on the screen while I am working, and so the tablet hasn't eliminated the problem of having to relax my eye on the class. However, I can work from anywhere in the room. It seems though, that the pad loses sensitivity the farther in the back that I am.

I also can get rid of the noisy, cluttery opague projector (yippee). I won't need to use overheads anymore (costly) and I don't have colored fingers when I go home.

I do however, have one problem. My new computer screen is a wide screen, and so the scroll bar that is present on the destktop, isn't visible on the projected image. Playing with the size of the open window scrunches everything up and since I have everyting in a larger font (so that the kids in the back can see it), it really squishes up the sentences so that I can only project one at a time. Hmmmm.