Marking Up Texts with Webster Digital Whiteboards
In Richard Martin’s Poetry of Horace
class, students shared control of Websters (large
screen displays)
to translate
and analyze texts together.
Just before class
begins, Professor Martin downloads ancient Latin
texts in Word files to both of the big screen
displays at the front of the room.
On one screen,
one team of students used a digital marker
to annotate a poem. On the other screen a second
team of students parses the poem by sharing control
over the editing and reorganizing processes.
Students share control over the editing process
by sliding their cursors from their laptops to
the display – and make changes and add
comments to the text.
After fifteen minutes of
student activity, Professor Martin leads the
entire class through a comparison of the two
student groups' parsed texts. |
