Oh technology, you fickle friend. I stayed up late last night *really late* to have a whiz-bang activity ready for class using my tablet, and you failed me. My tablet is not very useful without wireless. I had to write on the chalk board! I have chalk on my pants now! As is often the case, I was able to (once I finished crying over my tablet) reconfigure a class activity by thinking of some quick group work. Though I spent too much time trying to get the new-fangled technology working, things seemed to work well enough in the group activity.
One of the things I was hoping to do with my fancy tablet was to show students the answer to a difficult question on their pre-assessment, using Venn diagrams which I was going to draw right on the worksheet. I did this on the chalk board (no fancy colors or other tabletty magic). On the note of the pre-assessment, I do think it served some of its purpose, which was to give my TA and me a sense of the logical talent of the class. Turns out there's quite a bit! On the other hand, I'm worried, especially with my showcase of chalky Venn diagrams, that I may have overwhelmed students in the first week. Time will tell.
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