Teaching, Technology, and Learning

I've updated my program to automatically enable/disable the touch scrollers on the OQO Model 02/e2. The original program was described here:
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/techteach/?q=node/50

The program was created so a right-handed user can ink with the pen without accidentally hitting the touch scrollers with your palm.

4/24/08 UPDATE - I have posted a newer version at
http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkjm/techteach/?q=node/53

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In the past I've complained about accidentally scrolling on my OQO 02 by hitting the touch scrollers with my palm while inking with the pen. I think I have a solution, which is a program that automatically disables the touch scrollers when the pen is detected near the screen and enabled the touch scrollers when the pen leaves the screen. I've dubbed the program the auspicious name of SCROLLMASTER.

I thought I'd post a program I've been working on to experiment with using the OQO 02 accelerometer and touch scrollers for input. This is not a finished application by any means -- it's intended to explore alternate uses of these mechanisms for input. I'd love to hear from any of you that may have ideas on how to use these components.

It's a real kitchen-sink app so far. Here's what it does: