Very cool Tablet PC application

Scoble pointed out this very cool new Tablet PC application: Classroom Presenter. It’s like Powerpoint, at least superficially, but it can operate in a mode where the instructor can step through the slides while attendees, or students, or whatever-you-want-to-call-’em can see the same slides on their laptops or palmtops. This is a terrific solution for large conferences or presentations in the tech industry. For example, at MGB about 15% of the attendees to our class were not native English speakers, and many of them were frustrated by the pace of slide advances. We gave them printed copies of the slides, but that wouldn’t be feasible at someplace like TechEd. The downside is that the clients have to run a separate application (although it supports Tablet PC ink, too). I may give this a try here at el rancho and see whether it’s worth using in the kinds of environments I teach in.