Tablet PC & smartphone uses in education (TabletTours)

Author

Bedi, Krunoslav

Author_Institution

Sch. of Civil Eng., Art & Craft Cakovec, Čakovec, Croatia

fYear

2014

fDate

26-30 May 2014

Firstpage

940

Lastpage

945

Abstract

This paper presents the development and design of TabletTours application, high-school students´ extracurricular project activity. TabletTours application is designed and implemented as a virtual tablet-based travel guide. The additional purposes of this paper are to examine the manner in which students use new technologies (tablet PC, smartphone) and to showcase an example of a successful implementation of acquired ICT knowledge and skills in a project-oriented classroom.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; further education; human computer interaction; mobile computing; multimedia computing; notebook computers; smart phones; travel industry; virtual reality; ICT knowledge acquisition; ICT skills acquisition; TabletTours application; high-school students extracurricular project activity; multimedia computer interaction; project-oriented classroom; smartphone usage; tablet PC usage; virtual tablet-based travel guide; Educational institutions; Mobile communication; Portable computers; Software; Tablet computers; multimedia computer interaction; smartphone; tablet PC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2014 37th International Convention on

Conference_Location

Opatija

Print_ISBN

978-953-233-081-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIPRO.2014.6859703

Filename

6859703