Poster at Newcastle University's Learning and Teaching Conference April 2019

1. What? When? Why?
Issued: Sep 2018
Initial development:
2018 – 2019
Tablets for all stage 1
students in SNES
-
Samsung Galaxy Tab A
with smart pen
• Digitising learning
material
• Improving uniform
access to resources
• Introducing digital
teaching methods
This Project
• Note-taking
• File-storing
• Digitisation of paper or voice input
• Revision help
• Access to databases
• Discipline-specific apps
Outputs: Instructional Material
Next Steps
• Staff training sessions
• Embed instructional resources in 2019 – 20 induction
• Collect feedback on provided material to continually update and improve
Use of Tablets as Innovative Learning Resources
in Natural and Environmental Sciences (SNES)
M. Roberts | M. Sykes | Dr A. Graham | Dr H. Kossen
m.roberts7@newcastle.ac.uk | m.sykes@newcastle.ac.uk
Thank you to the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences for funding this project.
Review of apps and other digital learning support
Staff and Students
• Exploring all inbuilt features of
the tablet
• Explaining full functionalities
• Data-saving: locations, safety,
digital awareness and online
security
Staff
• Using tablets for teaching:
Handouts, Solstice, Ombea
Students
• Note-taking apps: OneNote, Evernote,
Acrobat, Squid, Samsung, XoDo
• Blackboard, NCL app
• Photo/voice-to-text apps