{"id":660380,"date":"2013-05-27T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blackberry.com\/?p=17107"},"modified":"2013-05-27T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:13:28","slug":"playbook-tablets-are-changing-the-way-first-year-dalhousie-engineering-students-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660380","title":{"rendered":"PlayBook Tablets are Changing the Way First Year Dalhousie Engineering Students Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rimbizblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/playbook.jpg?w=176\" alt=\"playbook\"   class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10987\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First year engineering students at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dal.ca\/\" >Dalhousie University<\/a> received something extra when they started last year \u2013 a BlackBerry PlayBook. Professors took advantage of the new teaching opportunities created when every student is connected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven its ultra portability and power, the PlayBook has given the students the ability to interact with professors at an unprecedented level,\u201d explains Dalhousie Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/myweb.dal.ca\/jarjoug\/\" >George Jarjoura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having every student using a PlayBook opened up new ways to teach. Students could follow along with course presentations on their PlayBooks, annotating slides with their own notes. Equally as important, given the size of first-year lectures, was the ability to ask questions and take quizzes electronically, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some first year students, participation during the question period is very intimidating, especially in large classes with hundreds of students,\u201d says Professor Jarjoura. \u201cWith the PlayBooks, students could ask questions, submit answers and interact with me in real time, as I lecture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a style=\"float:right;\" href=\"http:\/\/bizblog.blackberry.com\/2013\/05\/dalhousie-playbook-tablets?CPID=SOC_IBB1000064\" >Read more at the Inside BlackBerry Biz blog \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/rimblogs.wordpress.com\/17107\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/rimblogs.wordpress.com\/17107\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogs.blackberry.com&#038;blog=17235670&#038;%23038;post=17107&#038;%23038;subd=rimblogs&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/InsideBlackberry-TheOfficialBlackBerryBlog\/~4\/c08qSHQ72Rc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First year engineering students at Dalhousie University received something extra when they started last year \u2013 a BlackBerry PlayBook. Professors took advantage of the new teaching opportunities created when every student is connected. \u201cGiven its ultra portability and power, the PlayBook has given the students the ability to interact with professors at an unprecedented level,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}