Tablet PC Post - James Uminowicz

Using the tablet PC for peer review was a new experience for me and everyone in my group. We all seemed to have mixed feelings on the new piece of technology. The peer review itself was helpful and let us find new ways to strengthen our essays that we hadn't thought of earlier. Editing on the tablet PC made a normally easy process a little more difficult. Having one tablet for every four to five people made it a boring experience for everyone but the annotator. The other group members would help occasionally but there is only so much you can do when you're not writing. The one thing I did like were the word annotations. It was helpful to have all the comments written right next to the mistakes so you didn't have to flip between the comments page and the essay. The journal notes weren't as helpful and were basically the same questions as the word annotations just in a different format. I think that if we were in smaller groups and only did the word annotations it would have been a better experience.

Peer Review

I am very interested to know what you liked best about the peer review we have been doing with the Tablet PC, so I have some questions for you:

What did you learn about your essay?

Do you think you helped another student with his or her essay? Explain or give an example.

Was it useful to be able to both write on the text with Annotations and then also to make clear notes in the Windows Journal Notes feature? Which did you like best?

What do you think Dr. Scharff and I could do to make this a better experience for you? i.e., could we ask other questions? Give an example. Fewer questions? Which could be cut? Was there too much repetition in the two activities of Annotation and Notes? Give an example. How could we solve that? What questions are the best to help you see where to revise your work?

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