Tablet PC & smartphone uses in education (TabletTours)

This paper presents the development and design of TabletTours application, high-school students' extracurricular project activity. TabletTours application is designed and implemented as a virtual tablet-based travel guide. The additional purposes of this paper are to examine the manner in which students use new technologies (tablet PC, smartphone) and to showcase an example of a successful implementation of acquired ICT knowledge and skills in a project-oriented classroom.