Interactive Lecture Software Goes Chinese

If you are planning a lecture on the upcoming Olympics in Beijing, you might want to spruce it up with some free new software. Classroom Presenter, the program that lets professors using a tablet PC write on their electronic slides, and lets student scribble back for real-time feedback, is now available in Chinese. Richard Anderson, the University of Washington computer scientist who has led the development of the program, says more languages are coming. Translation features for multilingual classrooms? That’s a taller order of interactivity. Maybe by the next Olympiad. —Josh Fischman