DyKnow disappointment
SO, I found out something bad about DyKnow today. Let me back up, though.
We only have 23 tablets to give out to students, I have 46 in the class. We planned to have all students have access to the DyKnow server, regardless of whether they use one in class. Thus, they could see my lecture notes after class on their home computer. We are assessing whether student who use DyKnow in class do better than those who use DyKnow only at home. Problem is; DyKnow will NOT let you share your files with those who did not participate(logon) in the class with a tablet!!! This is a huge problem. I am quite sure that our DyKnow rep. told us we could do this and it turns out we cannot!! Bummer!! To share the lecture notes I will have to save the file NOT to the DyKnow, but to my hard drive, then transfer them to a Moodle website via FrontPage or other web editing program. . . More work for me!!
If it weren’t for the cool polling features, this would be just like I did last year with Classroom Presenter. It ends up being at least 20 minutes doing this stuff after class. . . .
Software Issues | Andrew French | 
August 27, 2008 5:52 pm
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By Ian MacInnes, September 15, 2008 @ 10:20 am
What do you mean by “lecture notes”? Diagrams? Stuff from the board? Presentations? All of it? I’m curious about how the tablets combine things.
By Andrew French, September 15, 2008 @ 5:36 pm
Ian,
My class “presentation/discussion” starts out as blank whiteboard (electronic) I can then add individual “slides” of content from a pre-prepared powerpoint presentation, incorporate an active website or a screen capture, embed an animation or short film from my computer or a website. Alla re “imported to my classroom session”. each “slide” can beannoted with the stylus on a rainbow of colors, I can draw figures and schemes, on top of the content imported or just draw on the blank whiteboard. Those students with tablets can be polled (like Clickers) about their understanding of the content, and I can write quiz questions and ask that they submit their resonses to me for me to either grade later or incorporate into the group discussion. (not like clickers).
Hope this helps!!
By Cara, September 29, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
Andrew, please feel free to send your comments or enhancement requests to Dyknow as well. I just wanted you to know that I logged the shared space/folder as an enhancement request.
Thanks!