Double the Fun!

Whoa!  I brought the Smart Slate back to school this afternoon, and just for fun I decided to turn on the Mobi View that the principal asked me to try out, and turn on the Smart Slate at the same time.  I found out that they will both run off the same software, so now we can have twice as much fun with two users at the same time!  Now I have twice as much to figure out though, because from what I could see, the Mobi will run off from the Smart Slate's Notebook software, and I think the Smart Slate will run off the Mobi's eInstruction software.  It all depends on which software you have running when you turn them on.  I'll experiment a little more with this new-found information, then set my students loose with it to see what they can figure out. 


I also figured out that if I run an additional cord from my computer to my document camera, I can have a student demo computer, and my teacher computer, and the document camera all hooked up to the LCD projector at the same time, and just switch from one to another with the push of a button.  I used to unhook one computer to hook up the other, because sometimes I am demonstrating programs, and I want the students to see the way they will look on their computers, and sometimes I am showing DVD's (which the student computers will not play) or websites that require a newer version of Safari than what the student computers will run.  Now that I have the Smart Slate, I need to run that on my teacher computer as well because of the software, so I want to be able to quickly project my computer screen with the LCD projector, without having to unhook and hook up a cable each time.