{"id":569,"date":"2025-12-04T13:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:45:35","slug":"eink-android-tablet-for-research-and-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/2025\/12\/04\/eink-android-tablet-for-research-and-grading\/","title":{"rendered":"eInk Android Tablet for Research and Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Awardee:<\/b> Harrison Shieh<\/p>\n<p><b>Semester of Award:<\/b> 2024-2025<\/p>\n<p><b>Materials Awarded:<\/b> BOOX Note Air4 Color<\/p>\n<p><b>Project Description:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I used it as my primary note taking device. Larger impact on research productivity, since I could read more papers with less eye fatigue while annotating. The workflow was papers could be read\/annotated and then synced with my dropbox account so i could access those notes wherever and on whatever device. I used the notebook at conferences as my note taking device as well and that also proved to be a fruitful use of the device. I also played around with grading student papers and problem sets with this, although that proved to be a little more challenging given the workload from getting papers off Moodle onto this device wasn&#8217;t very smooth\/automated.<\/p>\n<p>Overall the tablet (especially the color eInk) is more useful as a research productivity tool as opposed to a pedagogical one. When compared with an iPad, i would say reading papers on this device was definitely a better experience given due to less eye fatigue, but admittedly that might be a somewhat niche use case for this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awardee: Harrison Shieh Semester of Award: 2024-2025 Materials Awarded: BOOX Note Air4 Color Project Description: I used it as my primary note taking device. Larger impact on research productivity, since I could read more papers with less eye fatigue while &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/2025\/12\/04\/eink-android-tablet-for-research-and-grading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}