The Verge, a popular technology blog, recently reviewed different styluses available for the iPad, iPhone and other touch screen devices. While touch screens have revolutionized computing, many desire to have the familiarity of a pen, especially while writing. Today there are many options available, but often it’s hard to know how they are different. The […]
Tech Blog Reviews iPad Styluses
Polling Students with Clickers: Professor Weissman Polls Students on the Future of Nuclear Power.
A multiple choice question appears on the projector and all of the sudden you hear the clicking of 34 different remotes — each click representing a vote from a student in the class. Steve Weissman stands in the front of the class and after he closes the poll a chart is displayed on the screen. […]
The Pros and Cons of Smart Phones in the Classroom
Campus Technology has a very interesting article on how smartphones can be both a teaching tool and a distraction to students. Titled, Smartphones: Teaching Tool or Brain Candy?, they discuss how faculty can use phones as a asset teaching while giving ideas for managing phones in the classroom. Here at UC Berkeley law we have […]
Digital Teacher’s Tool Kit: Flash Drive
Digital Teacher’s Tool Kit: Flash Drive Small, Portable, Storage Before class begins, a professors walks into his classroom to set up. Having requested a laptop from Media Services, he finds it set up on the podium, plugged in and ready to go. With only a few minutes before class begins, he quickly pulls out his […]