Media Enhanced Teaching and Learning

Experience has shown that one of the most successful ways to deliver mathematics lectures is by working through handwritten notes and examples. I (in this article ‘I’ refers to Joel Feinstein) am interested in ways that technology can enhance this process. Tablet PCs offer a modern approach to chalk and talk that can replicate most of the best features of writing on a board while allowing improved delivery such as being able to annotate existing notes and insert graphics such as circles and lines into diagrams. Using a tablet PC opens up new opportunities such as integrating software into lectures and recording onscreen content as video with synchronised sound for later viewing and distribution.