Collaborative note taking

Author

Singh, Gurminder ; Denoue, Laurent ; Das, Arijit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

163

Lastpage

167

Abstract

Collaborative note taking enables students in a class to take notes on their PDAs and share them with their "study group" in real-time. Students receive instructor\´s slides on their PDAs as the instructor displays them. As the individual members of the group take notes pertaining to the slide being presented, their notes are automatically sent to all members of the group. In addition, to reduce their typing, students can use text they receive from other students and from the instructors slides to construct their notes. This system has been used in actual practice for a graduate level course on wireless mobile computing.

Keywords

Internet; client-server systems; computer aided instruction; distance learning; educational courses; notebook computers; teaching; word processing; PDAs; collaborative note taking; graduate level course; instructor slides; study group; wireless mobile computing; Collaboration; Computer science; Computer science education; Displays; Educational technology; Information management; Mobile computing; Organizing; Personal digital assistants; Portable computers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education, 2004. Proceedings. The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1989-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMTE.2004.1281375

Filename

1281375