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Best Practices Based on Instructor/Student Comments

• Using different colors and highlighting to distinguish different objects, or to show progression of steps
• Remotely accessing student’s tablet PC screen to answer specific questions with greater understanding and depth
• Providing opportunities for students to see how others approach the same problems (multiple ways to solve same problem); make instructor’s thought/solution process more visible
• Posting annotated notes in ANGEL (PSU’s course management system)
• Providing notes before class so students can pay attention to and think about what the instructor is saying without spending class time furiously copying down everything he wrote
• Adding a picture, drawing, charts, graphs and annotating makes it easier to visualize the problem solution
• Editing and deleting mistakes in a problem
• Projecting his screen so students can take notes right on it – helps to focus attention