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MCPresenter: A mobile tool supporting various collaborative practices in the classroom

MCPresenter: A mobile tool supporting various collaborative practices in the classroom. Dušan Juretić, Gustavo Zurita, Nelson Baloian. University of Chile April 2009. General Context. Traditional teaching practices tend to be replicated even in computer-integrated classrooms.

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MCPresenter: A mobile tool supporting various collaborative practices in the classroom

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  1. MCPresenter: A mobile tool supporting various collaborative practices in the classroom Dušan Juretić, Gustavo Zurita, Nelson Baloian University of Chile April 2009

  2. General Context • Traditional teaching practices tend to be replicated even in computer-integrated classrooms. • Single-speaker paradigm hinders students’ participation and interaction with the teacher. • With the advance on the technology field, classrooms have started to use devices as Tablet-PCs, PDAs, etc. • Learning outcome of students is increased if they do activities by themselves rather than just listening (“learning by doing”).

  3. Mobile Collaborative Presenter • Support teachers' work in a classroom. • Allows bidirectional communication between teacher and students, so: • Teacher can know the learning level of his/her students. • Students can more easily obtain feedback about their work. • Enables students to take notes in class and share them.

  4. Mobile Collaborative Presenter (2) • Uses a Wi-fi ad-hoc network. • Full P2P architecture • Runs on PDA & Tablet-PC. • Input based on gestures. • Content can be saved to a XML file.

  5. Teacher Delivers Learning Material ( Including problems) Teacher’s Tablet-PC Student’s PDA Figure 1: Delivery of class material

  6. Teacher monitors students’ work Teacher’s Tablet-PC Student’s PDA Figure 1: Delivery of class material

  7. Students submit their work Teacher’s Tablet-PC Student’s PDA Figure 1: Delivery of class material

  8. Collaborative manipulation of the learning material Teacher’s Tablet-PC Student’s PDA Figure 1: Delivery of class material

  9. Comparison among applications

  10. System-functionality principles • Aid student-student and teacher-student interaction • Teacher: create questions on-the-fly, adapt lecture content to the class. • Easy network setup • Run on mobile devices • Deal with PDA’s small screen size

  11. Gesture-based interaction • Gestures minimize number of widgets on the screen. • Natural input, imitating pen & paper. Figure 2: Creating a stroke

  12. Questions creation (a) (b) Figure 3: (a) Teacher’s view. (b) Student’s view.

  13. Student-teacher interaction (a) (b) Figure 4: (a) Teacher authorizing a student to write. (b) Student expresses that he/she didn’t understand.

  14. Presentation path Figure 5: Different ways to navigate through a set of pages

  15. Presentation path (2) • Adapt content to the class. • Redefine slide order on runtime. Figure 6: Defining a presentation path

  16. Import PowerPoint slides • Reuse teacher’s material. • Can draw sketches over the images. Figure 7: Imported PowerPoint slides

  17. Conclusions & future work • MCPresenter combines learning content management with pedagogical practices. • Preliminary usability tests have shown that it is easy to use and fast to learn. • Future work: usability tests with teacher and students should be done.

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