Using tablet PCs effectively

[ishaninatte]

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Hi,

I just bought a tablet PC and I thought I'd ask how you all how to use tablets most effectively for study. Do you scrawl on Power Points or make your own flashcards? Do you surreptitiously doodle color-coded biochem pathways during boring lectures? Are there any programs that have made your life particularly easy?

Thanks!

 

[Napoleon1801]

Hey, just bumping this thread b/c I'm curious too about those tablet pc'ers out there. My lap is getting a litte gray in the muzzle and I'm curious how much a tablet pc enhances the whole lovely learning process thing and what all you can do with it.

 

[uclacrewdude]

Hi,

I just bought a tablet PC and I thought I'd ask how you all how to use tablets most effectively for study. Do you scrawl on Power Points or make your own flashcards? Do you surreptitiously doodle color-coded biochem pathways during boring lectures? Are there any programs that have made your life particularly easy?

Thanks!

basically i just scrawled all over the powerpoint lectures we got. im a very color oriented person, so while i was restricted to a 4 color scheme with my multicolor pen, i used all 64 colors in my notes. theres a patch you can get off the microsoft website that allows you to write directly on the powerpoints w/o having to port it to MSjournal first. writing directly on powerpoint slides is most helpful for things like histo and cross-sectional anatomy (in particular neuro), where you can circle and point to things more appropriately. color constancy helps tremendously in neuroanatomy.

the other way i used my tablet pc was for biochem. basically id just draw the pathways over and over again, using journal. repetition of the pathways helps you remember em best, imho. this is also a godsend for rewriting notes, in particular immuno pathways that can be very long and convoluted.

your tablet pc basically becomes more useless as time progresses though -- i only found mine really useful during the 1st yr.

 

[0T6]

At Ottawa most of our class got tablets (a laptop of some sort is required, the school "provided" us with tablets this year) and I find it really useful, like the previous posters have mentioned.. it's GOLD for scrawling on powerpoint.. specifically the lectures that are heavy on diagrams. For text heavy presentations, I find it makes more sense to just type in notes on the presentation.

Other than that, it's good for some lectures without powerpoint that I want to take hand written notes on (as opposed to typed ones) and this lets me keep all my notes on the computer instead of having half of them on looseleaf.