| Handhelds in the K-12 Environment created and maintained by Kathy Schrock |
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"Small" Sites As the use of wireless to connect the handhelds to the Internet becomes more widespread, there should be many more sites accessible for the small screen. Here is one that I use with the Tungsten C and the Kyocera 7135. http://209.221.153.18/smallsites/ Consider creating a "small" version of your favorite links so it is ready once you go wireless with the handheld! Kathy Learning with Handhelds If you have not seen Intel's site called "Learning with Handhelds", take a peek. It provides a good overview of the use and rationale of the handheld computer in the classroom. <http://www.intel.com/education/handhelds/> It even offers a handheld version of the site if you are doing a workshop using wireless handhelds. <http://www.intel.com/education/handhelds/handhelds.htm> Kathy Software for Free As you are thinking about new ways to use the handheld with students, it is helpful to investigate the many pieces of free software available. Here is a site which has all types of software to explore! http://www.freewarepalm.com/ --Kathy Handhelds in other industries One interesting thing to do is to take a look at how handhelds are used in other industries. Brighthand has some forums on some of the industries that use the handhelds for all types of things in the "real" world. I peruse these forums every now and then. One use for reading them might be to add the use of a handheld to a role-playing WebQuest or to simply steer a student who is interested in any of these topics to some real world applications.
-Kathy
Won't the students love this! A laser-projection keyboard is really here (well, almost!) http://store.yahoo.com/ibizpda/vike.html -Kathy New Handheld Book ISTE has a new book entitled "Palm Computers in the Elementary Classroom: Curriculum and Strategies" by Mike Curtis and others. You can find out more about it here: http://iste.org/bookstore/detail.cfm?sku=palmec Kathy PalmOne Handheld Online Bulletin Boards One of the best, general interest online bulletin boards for the handheld is the one run by Brighthand. Any questions you have involving eveything from the orginial PalmPilot to the new Palm OS watches can be answered here. Thinking of buying a new piece of software or hardware? Chances are good that someone has already offered an opinion! http://www.brighthand.com/palm/index.php While we are on the topic of bulletin boards, let's consider the classroom variety! Anybody have any good classroom bulletin board displays or cute tag lines for the handheld computer? Let us know! Kathy Thank you for the invitation to join the Handhelds blog. I conduct alot of workshops on basic use of the Palm and on educational uses for the Palm. I look forward to reading the tips provided at this site. I found the listing in "A Day in the Life of an Educator's Handheld" to be very interesting. I'm looking forward to the discussions here; I know that this will help to keep me up-to-date. We have a fifth grade classroom whose students use handhelds 24/7. There are two computers that are used to perform HotSync operations. Right now, the data is saved to the hard drives. I tried to change the pathway so that the data was saved to a folder on the network. When I did this, I had all kinds of folders saved within folders. I undid that mess and went back to the data being saved on the hard drives. Are there instructions posted anywhere that would help me change the datapath to our district's network? Thank you.
Survey of Middle School Students We conducted a survey of all grade 5, 6, 7, and 8 students at our Middle School. We wanted to know who owned a handheld, what OS they were using, what software was being used, and how did they see handheld use in the classroom. Overwhelming, Middle School students, whether they had one or not, thought they would be helpful with organization, homework, project due dates, notices for home/school, and so much lighter to carry than assignment notebooks that get lost and pages torn out. Students mentioned how easy it would be to have a keyboard attached and then use it for notes and writing assignments. My study group will analze the results and compile data at our next meeting. Barbara Comparing Models of Handhelds Quickly need the overall specs on any of the palmOne and PocketPC handheld computers on the market? Trying to help a teacher or administrator decide which model to purchase? Try this page which allows you to choose any number of handhelds and then easily create a table comparing your choices. http://www.davespda.com/resources/compare/index.htm Kathy Tunes for your Tungsten (and Zire!) An interesting announcement today....RealNetworks music buying service now allows transfer of tunes that you buy right to your Palm! If you are interested, details can be found here. http://www.real.com/realmobile/palmone.html Kathy Kathy, Thank you for the invite to your Blog. This should be an excellent place to gain handheld knowledge.
Hi Kathy! This should be an informative site, with you as our leader! :)
Wireless and the palmOne handheld For those of you with the m125, m130, m500, m505 and the m515 (or those of you who just interested in 802.11b wireless options for your handheld), Enfora makes a nice solution. <http://www.enforawireless.com/shop/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=3> They have a special case/connector for the M-series and another for the current crop of palmOne handhelds. For those of you with version 4.1 of the OS, this solution may be one of your only solutions for going wireless, since the upcoming SD wireless card for the Palm OS is rumored to not support version 4 of the OS. I have a note in to Enfora asking whether the non-M series LAN portfolio will work with the M-series as well as the newer models. I will post the answer here once I get it. Kathy Apple II (still!) Anyone still hankering after using an Apple II can find an interesting emulator here that will allow you to port programs that you still have on diskette to the Palm-based handheld and use them! <http://palmapple.sourceforge.net/> Kathy Screen Shots One neat little program for capturing screen shots of the applications on your Palm to use for training purposes or presentations is called ScreenShot. It allows you to create a screen shot and either move it to the SD card for transferring to the desktop (in GIF or BMP format) or you can use the desktop conduit to easily pull the shots out of the backup file after performing a HotSync operation. It runs nicely on palmOne OS 5, and with the addition of a hack, on OS 4.1 and below. The desktop conduit is for a Windows-based computer, but there are both Apple and Linux-based methods available, too. You can download a trial of the application here: http://www.linkesoft.com/screenshot/ and take a look at the instructions here: http://www.linkesoft.com/screenshot/manual.html (Of course, you can always use the palmsource OS simulator (http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/simulator/) for making screen shots, but it is sometimes hard to get screen shots of wireless applications.) Thanks, Kathy, for the invitation to this forum. I am chairing a study group at Marblehead Middle School on the use of the handheld in the classroom and this will be an asset. We are drafting a survey to be distributed to students. We are looking to gather information on who owns a handheld, which model, and how they are being used. We will share this base line data when we receive it later this month.
Welcome to the Handhelds blog! This blog, to which all invited guests can post, is meant to provide an archive of tips and tricks for anyone interested in the use of the handheld in the K-12 classroom! Enjoy the posts and let me know how you like the blog! Kathy <kathy@kathyschrock.net> |
| About this Blog A blog dedicated to the educational and creative uses of the handheld computer in the K-12 environment. |
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