Interactive Multitouch Presentations Make Learning Fun

Multitouch technology offers ways to make learning more interactive and collaborative than single touch applications.

The Blob Multitouch Designer allows teachers to create multitouch presentations to use in their classrooms quickly without any programming knowledge.

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Multitouch platforms offer new and exciting ways of interacting with computers. Traditional input devices, such as the mouse or keyboard, only allow input from one user at a time. However, multitouch gestures allow for multiple inputs and often resemble physical interactions that are more natural and intuitive for users. Additionally, large multitouch interfaces allow more than one person to collaborate on the same screen easily. This encourages people to work together and communicate. Multitouch applications have the potential for offering a new hands- on approach to learning. Their interactive nature is engaging and appeals to a wide variety of learning styles and the use of large interactive multitouch screens encourages collaboration. Science and math education, in particular, can benefit from the highly interactive nature of multitouch technology. With access to a multitouch computer and applications, students can work together to learn concepts and solve problems.

Because of the positive effect that interactive learning can have on students, teachers from different backgrounds need to have access to multitouch technology. The goal of this project is to give educators the ability to leverage multitouch technology in their classrooms.

Blob Multitouch Designer includes:

Creator: Build multitouch applications easily through a click and drag interface.
Viewer: View and interact with completed presentations on multitouch compatible hardware.
Examples: Sample presentations that have been built using the Blob Multitouch Designer