Ways to use technology in teaching

Making movies with Toshiba's laptops

Tablets. The tool for leading edge educators

Working with projectors

How the Toshiba Tablet PC and wireless projector team can transform teaching

Lights. Camera. Laptop. Action.

Toshiba's TELA laptops come with all the software you need to make movies.

MovieMaker allows you to edit, then burn your project to DVD with WinDVD™ Creator (Platinum edition). Better still, you're working in Windows® - the software that 90% of New Zealanders use at home, so projects can be shared easily. You also have Windows® Media Player 10 for playing back music and movies, MSN Messenger for video, voice and chat, and Toshiba ImageEditor to handle your still shots. (There's even a slot that'll read your digital camera's memory card.)

Tablets. The tool for leading-edge educators.

Tablets are uniquely versatile tools that reward exploration and enable genuine innovation.

Basically, tablet technology lets you work with pen or keyboard, whichever suits you (or the occasion). The big advantage? Your handwritten notes are filed on the hard drive – the same place you keep everything you create with the keyboard. Your notes can then be cut, pasted, searched, sorted and shared, just like any other file.

You can also handwrite notes directly onto PowerPoint slides, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and so on.


Team the tablet with a wireless projector and you can wander the classroom, make notes on screen or annotate existing documents and display them instantly – a powerful new way to enhance material and encourage interactivity.

In short, the tablet PC opens up completely new ways to interact with your intellectual output and your audience. It's a revolutionary tool that will reward experimentation and innovation.

In many ways, it's up to users to explore and define new applications for the technology. We'd be interested to hear of your efforts and insights as you progress!

Working with projectors

Projectors can help teachers share their ideas and their enthusiasm with a whole class rather than just the cluster of kids who can fit around a desk. They can transform laptops from tools that can enhance learning for a few kids into ones that can enhance learning for entire classes.

Get more out of your projector

	Build students' confidence (and reward them for their efforts) by letting them present work to the class or the whole school.
	Show the words to the school song or the National Anthem on special occasions and get everyone more involved.
	Demonstrate new software to staff – it's more efficient than training small groups at once.
	Magnify the image from any digital microscope with an AV or PC connection. Now the whole class can see what's going on. No more thumb-twiddling while they take turns to look through the eyepiece.
	Host karaoke fund raising nights and get everyone involved.
	Organise a movie night* as a fund-raiser and reach the biggest possible audience with the 6.45 metre screen.

Add a digital video camera for even more versatility

	Project live video of science experiments – now everyone can watch reactions or dissections.
	Film and replay rugby matches and other big sporting events* – great for school spirit and for post-match analysis.
	Project images of debates so the whole audience can see the speakers.
	Enhance speech nights. Film the speakers and students while they're getting their awards so that everyone can see what's happening.

* subject to copyright and other use restrictions (if any) that might apply.

How the Toshiba Tablet PC and wireless projector team can transform teaching.

	When a Tablet PC is connected to a wireless projector it allows teachers to display material to the whole class, and then manipulate and interact with it on-screen in real time. Helping make lessons more engaging.
	Teachers can prepare material in advance and then write it on the Tablet PC (just as they would on a blackboard) and display it on screen instantly. This is useful for material that requires interaction or construction - illustrating how to solve equations or illustrate dynamic processes, for instance.
	Teachers equipped with a Tablet PC do not need to stand in front of a board while they work. This means students need never have their view obscured by the teacher. It also helps the teacher maintain eye contact with students.
	The Tablet PC and wireless projector team encourages spontaneity. It makes it easy for the teacher to write and draw on screen, move or modify material, annotate using multiple colours, and combine and manipulate multiple sources of content.
	Teachers can store every document, note and resource for a class or project on the Tablet PC and then share any or all of it easily via e-mail or other means.
	Teachers can easily save, file, edit and re-display material that would normally be erased from a blackboard. This allows a teacher to build on previous lessons, and eliminates duplication of effort – a real boost to efficiency.

A solution to one of teaching's oldest problems

Using equation editors and other means of converting keyboard strokes into mathematical arguments, chemical formulas and statements in physics is an exercise in frustration.

The ability to use a pen to input these symbolic languages directly into a Tablet PC makes life much easier. The logical next step? Team a Tablet PC with a wireless projector and transform the way teachers in these disciplines communicate with their classes.