Our friends over at Hunterdon Regional High School in New Jersey have teamed up with Toshiba to share their Tablet PC faculty professional development this summer. Tablet PC Academy will be held July 10-12.
Rob Mancabelli and his team (which formally included Will Richardson) have done an amazing job of motivating their teachers to take up Tablet PC technology in combination with wireless projection and software like Windows Journal. They currently have over 200 teachers using Tablets in the classroom. I have a hunch that student Tablets are on the horizon. In my opinion, this, combined with a collaborative app like DyKnow Vision software is when the Tablet technology transforms learning.
Noted in their research study, one teacher said, "This has been the most fun and exciting [time] of my teaching career--after 14 years, that's saying a lot." It is my impression that Hunterdon will bring workshop participants through part of their own proven Tablet PD / curriculum and will even loan out Tablets to participants who don't have one.
On a related note, Cincinnati County Day School also hosts several popular Tablet PC workshops each year but they tend to focus more on how students use Tablets, too.
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