1. Wireless Tablet Computing
in the College Algebra
Classroom
Lamar University Pilot Project

2. Vision Statement
Based on Feedback from Students in
College Algebra Course (Needs
Assessment), LU Provost and Professor
Dr. Stephen Doblin supported by Dr.
Michael Dobe (CIO) Seeks Greater
Mobility in College Algebra Classroom to
Share Mathematics Equations with
Students While Untethered from
Computer Workstation at the Corner of a
Large Lecture Hall. Dr. Doblin Also Seeks
to Record and Share Equations Via
Blackboard for Student Review.

3. Time and Scope
•Mondays and Wednesdays, 4 - 5:15 p.m. First class day is
August 23 and last class day is December 8. There will be
30 class meetings.
• Projecting content wirelessly from tablet through a
wireless VGA bridge to an Echo 360 appliance, which
projects content onto screen from the tablet via overhead
projector, records tablet content and uploads content on
an automated schedule to LU's hosted Blackboard instance
for students to review in Blackboard.

4. Computing Support Requirements
•Dell Tablet PC: ITS - Personal Computing Services
•Wireless Bridge - Personal Computing Services
•Echo 360 Appliance & Computer Control Station?
•Blackboard 9 Software - Center for Distance Education
•Echo 360 Software for Equations (Uploading to Blackboard
9)

5. Although a Late Entrant Into the Market,
Dell Now Offers a 2nd Generation Tablet PC
See Above Dell Tablet PC - official announcement

6. Tablet PC: Dell XT2 Tablet PC

7. Wireless From Tablet to
Screen and to Blackboard
VGA Bridge to Echo 360 Appliance
Instead of Wireless Projector

8. Wireless USB to VGA Adapter

9. Dell Tablet With Wireless VGA Bridge

10. Echo 360 Lecture Capture Appliance

11. Looking at Instructional Spaces for Wireless Tablet Computing

15. Multimedia Inputs in Corner
Workstation
•Echo 360 Appliance With Wireless VGA Bridge to be
Added to the Workstation Configuration
•Wireless Bridge Between Tablet PC and Echo 360
Appliance, INSTEAD OF USING A WIRELESS
PROJECTOR!

20. Lucas 119 Updates
Summer 2010

21. New Floor Eliminates Dip in Front of Classroom

22. New View From the Podium

23. Other Side of Lecture Hall