This posts piggybacks off the Recording Demonstrations Using Tablets, by explaining how an instructor can use Tablets to demonstrate in live synchronous classes.
This post describes a problem with sharing materials that can occur in a synchronous online class session and a potential solution.
Description
While presenting new information to students, instructors may find that they need to model a process, create an illustration, solve an equation, etc. in a way that all students can see and follow. In a regular classroom, this is often done via a document camera projected onto the classroom screen or on an interactive whiteboard. But what about in an ITV classroom where the lecturer wants to be untethered during lecture and discussion? A new level of complexity is added in sharing the material with students when they are located in multiple places and the instructor doesn’t want to stand behind the podium to lecture.
Process/Tool Implementation
Through the dual use of Zoom (or another web-conferencing solution) and a tablet, such as an iPad or Android device, an instructor can write on a whiteboard app and easily share it from around the room and to many locations in a few easy steps:
- Create and share a Zoom room URL.
- Download the Zoom app on your tablet.
- Connect to the Zoom room on your classroom computer and project your screen.
- Begin recording in the Zoom room.
- Have remote students (any who are not located in the same physical classroom as the instructor) follow the url to go to the Zoom room.
- Open the Zoom app on your tablet and connect to the Zoom room using the same credentials used to logon to the classroom computer.
- Click “Share Your Screen” within the Zoom app.
- Open your favorite whiteboard app on your tablet and begin writing.
Trim your recording to include only the demonstration and upload it to MediaFlo, so students can be provided a URL to review the demonstration again.
By using Zoom and a tablet, you can connect your tablet to the system in a way that is IT Security approved and allows you to get out from behind the podium. You can share any tablet application in this way. You can also hand the tablet to a student if they are in the same location as you and ask them to demonstrate. Finally, students connecting from various locations can also connect and share via their tablets.