USING TABLET COMPUTERS FOR PRESENTATION OF SLIDES IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING

During the teaching process teachers often use presentation of prepared slides. The most common is the projecting of slides with data projector. Several fields of study require a presentation of examples and illustrations as well as to adjust the presentation based on audience reactions. This type of presentation needs the support of additional handwriting notes in various parts of the presentation. Especially in engineering, where there are often different types of diagrams or processes, it is necessary during the presentation for example to sketch a circuit diagram or at least to add notes to a diagram. Nowadays Tablet PCs are often used for presentations, since they can combine the advantages of traditional presentation along with the above mentioned needs. Currently there are several computer-based presentation systems, each of the having its advantages and disadvantages, but only a few of them are taking use of full Tablet PCs’ benefits. The contribution of this work is the development of a software that enables easy and quick creation of presentations using Tablet PCs. In addition, it allows interactive editing of slides during the presentation. This software is developed for Windows 7, taking the advantage of the benefits this operating system offers. One of the major benefits is the capability of learning various handwritten styles and their conversion into a digital form. This ability offers the flexibility of the application that can easily be used by multiple users. As the program learns new styles it makes the writing more flexible in the future. In the process of development, the greatest emphasis was given on maximum utilization of touch screen and the associated adjusting control tools. The stylus can be used for comfortable software control and also to insert new layers, images, videos and text in either the preparation or presentation mode.