Tablet PC Project

Roy P. Pargas

• Department of Computer Science
  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC 29634-0974
  864.650.4771 (cell)
  864.656.5855 (office)
  pargas@cs.clemson.edu
  

• Project Proposal, November 2004

• Brief Project Description, June 2005

• Grants:
  • 2009: Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation 2009 Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences, Organic Pad: A Tablet PC-Based Interactivity Tool for Teaching Chemistry, (co-PIs Melanie M. Cooper and Roy P. Pargas), May 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

  • 2008: NSF ALT Award No. DRL-0735655, OrganicPad: A Tablet PC-Based Interactivity Tool for Organic Chemistry, (co-PIs Melanie M. Cooper, Calvin L. Williams, Roy P. Pargas), January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2010.

  • 2008: NSF CCLI - Type 2 Award No. DUE-0817442, Mathematics Partnering with Computer Science to Improve Calculus Instruction and Learning, (co-PIs Calvin L. Williams, Marilyn Reba, and Roy P. Pargas), August 1, 2008 - July 31, 2011.

  • 2007: Hewlett-Packard 2007 Technology for Teaching Leadership Grant Hewlett-Packard (Jim Vanides, Program Manager)

  • 2004: Microsoft Tablet PC and Computing Curriculum Grant (Jane Prey, Program Manager)

  • 2003: Microsoft Content and Curriculum Development Grant (Tom Healy, Program Manager)

• Downloads
  • OrganicPad
  • GraphPad

• Student Projects:
  • Sam Bryfczyski: OrganicPad and GraphPad
  • Eric Anderson: MathPad

• Papers, Posters, Presentations
  • Pargas, R.P. and Bryfczynski, S., What Were They Thinking?, Proc. of 14th ACM-SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2009), Paris, July 3-8, 2009.
  • Pargas, R.P. and Bryfczynski, S., Using Ink to Expose Students' Thought Processes in CS2/CS7, Proc. of ACM 40th SIGCSE, Chattanooga, TN, March 4-7, 2009.
  • Pargas, R.P., "Engaging Every Student in Large Laptop Classes", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Web-Based Education (WBE 2007), Chamonix, France, March 14-16, 2007, http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-557.html
  • Pargas, R.P., "Reducing Lecture and Increasing Student Activity in Large Computer Science Courses", Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2006), Bologna, Italy, June 26-28, 2006, http://www.iticse06.cs.unibo.it/
  • Pargas, R.P., "A Targeted Tablet PC Software Development Course", (Poster Presentation) Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2006), Bologna, Italy, June 26-28, 2006, http://www.iticse06.cs.unibo.it/
  • Pargas, R.P. and Shah, D., "Things are Clicking in Computer Science Courses", Proceedings of ACM 37th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2006), Houston, TX, March 1-4, 2006, pp. 474-478, http://www.cs.rit.edu/~sigcse06/.
  • Pargas, R.P., "Facilitating a Course in Tablet PC Software Development", Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on the Impact of Pen-technology on Education (WIPTE 2006), Purdue University, April 4-6, 2006, http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/wipte/.
  • Pargas, R.P., "Using MessageGrid to Promote Student Collaboration", Proceedings of IADIS Cognition and Exploratory Learning in a Digital Age 2005 (CELDA 2005), Porto, Portugal, December 14-16, 2005, pp.359-362, http://www.iadis.org/celda2005/
  • Pargas, R.P., Levin, A.R. and Austin, J., "Work-In-Progress: Providing Interactivity in a Technology-Rich Classroom", Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2005), Indianapolis, IN, October 19-22, 2005, pp. F3D 13-14, http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2005/

  • Poster
         presented at the
    • 2005 Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, July 17-19, 2005, and at the
    • Second Microsoft Research Tablet PC Workshop, Redmond, WA, July 19-21, 2005

  • Masters Paper, Robert Culler, Computer Science, Clemson University, May 2005

  • WIPTE 2006 paper

    
    

    Last updated: 27 April 2009