Objectives: By the end of today's workshop, participants will be able to:
- experience first-hand some of the capabilities with which laptops provide their students
- recognize the increasing importance hand-held computing will have in university classrooms
- apply principles of effective learning to their own classroom practice
- understand how laptops could be utilized for instruction, construction of understanding, & evaluation.
- explore a variety of transformational uses for portable computing
- understand issues associated with classroom use of laptop computers
- verbalize ideas they may have for employing laptops in their courses