TIES 2004 presentations

Presentations shared at the 2004 TIES Conference:

MediaBlender: Interactive Multimedia Software for the Internet Generation (Sunday workshop)
- Workshop handout (PDF format)
- Tech4Learning (creators of MediaBlender)
Computing@Every Student - A Look at 1:1 Options (Monday session) [Online questions]
- Presentation handout
- Ubiquitous Computing - The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser (1993)
- Pervasive Computing - bringing the ideas of ubiquitous computing into the current setting.
- Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium
- Metiri Group - Solutions That Work
- Handheld Devices in the Classroom
- Leapfrog Handheld Learning Tools
- Computer-based graphing calculators
- Graphing calculators (TI .::. Casio .::. HP)
- PalmOne
- GoKnow Products
- HP iPaq Pocket PC
- Learning with Laptops
- SAT Test Prep via cell phone
- techLearning tablet PC article
- Links to device manufacturers:
  - Sony Vaio U Series PC
  - DT Research
  - OQO model 01
  - FlipStart PC
  - Fujitsu Lifebook P7000
  - Handheld games (newest releases)
Overlay Your Classroom With Technology (Tuesday session) [Online questions]
- Presentation handout
- Getting the classroom picture
  - Emulators (TI calculators .::. Palm PDAs)
  - Pocket PC (dotPocket)
  - Handheld connections to video projectors (Margi Presenter-to-Go)
  - Wireless video projection (Komatsu TriLink Air Projector .::. Projector Central review)
- Engaging students via a single computer in the classroom
  - Enhanced audio
  - Wireless keyboards/mice
  - Electronic response devices (eInstructon .::. Promethean ACTIVote)
- Low-cost alternatives to:
  - Visual presenter cameras (PC cameras)
  - Adding "connected" classroom computers (Belkin Ethernet over power adapters)
  - Interactive classroom software annotations (Master Pointer)

Each of the above presentations is saved in six slides per page PDF format. Please email Jim Hirsch (jhirsch@pisd.edu)if you have further questions.