My use of the tablet has been primarily used as a teaching tool rather than a whole-class tool. Implementing the Cornell-Note Taking System with the tablet in my fourth grade class was a perfect way to model how to properly take notes. Because this was so new, the students were definitely engaged during a lesson that without the teachnology would have been fairly boring.

I have also made power point presentations with pictures of various geographical features that the students would have to identify. They woudl run up to the computer and write the names of all the features in a given picture. They were only given a few seconds to locate as many as they could. They loved it. 

Another use of the tablet I find beneficial is to project pieces of student writing from Writing Workshop in order to model how to edit and revise them. After scanning the hand-written writing, I use it in a mini lesson. Afterward I print out it out for the student to use as a rough draft. All the students benefit from the whole-class mini lesson. 

I hope to use get the kids involved in using the tablets when we begin working on poetry after the new year.