Did you know your palmOne handheld can ... field-tested ideas from palmOne-using educators.Create a Word document on your handheld and send it to your desktop--and rice-versa? (Documents to Go) Easily create cooperative learning cooperative learning Education theory A student-centered teaching strategy in which heterogeneous groups of students work to achieve a common academic goal–eg, completing a case study or a evaluating a QC problem. See Problem-based learning, Socratic method. groups in the classroom with the Sorting Hat program? (www.freewarepalm.com) --Submitted by Kathy Schrock Take digital photos of class field trips with the Zire 72's built-in camera, and then download these pictures into your computer to incorporate into a presentation? --Submitted by a Baxter Control both the VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. and TV in your classroom by using a program called Novii Remote on your handheld so that it acts as a remote control? (www.novii.tv/products/noviir/) --Submitted by Kathy Schrock Use the palmOne handheld's Date Book/Calendar application to schedule your IEPs? --Submitted by Jana Baxter Let students create sophisticated surveys and do survey analyses with a free handheld program called Social Survey 27 (www.freewarepalm.com) --Submitted by Kathy Schrock Carry hundreds of eBooks and the reader is free? (http..//ebooks.palmone.com/education) --Submitted by Chris Harris Chris or Christopher Harris may refer to:
Look up a student's schedule anywhere, anytime (for example, when a teacher or administrator encounters a student in the hallway without a pass)? (ScheduleFinder) --Submitted by Pat Drago Do classroom observations with your palmOne And a custom database? (HanDBase, FileMaker Mobile) --Submitted by Jeanne Greenfield Send a progress report of any other document to a printer on the fly? (PrintBoy) --Submitted by Penny Swenson Access an encyclopedia or an atlas via SD cards that can be read on the handheld? (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Rand McNally Rand McNally & Company is the preeminent American publisher of maps, atlases, and globes for travel, reference, commercial, and educational uses. It also provides online consumer street maps and directions, as well as commercial transportation routing software and mileage data. ) Experience a new level of accuracy and safety in science lab experiments using science probes attached to handheld computers? (Vernier vernier (vûr`nēr), auxiliary scale, either straight or an arc of a circle, designed to slide along a fixed scale. Its unit divisions, usually smaller than those on the fixed scale, permit a far more precise reading. and Imagiworks) Directly record grades on your handheld, giving you a more convenient way to enter grades and track student progress? (Making the Grade) Facilitate brainstorming on your palmOne handheld, and then turn the result into an outline? (Inspiration for Palm OS) Help complete classroom writing activities with wireless keyboards, leaving school computer labs open for collaborative workspace A collaborative workspace or shared workspace is an inter-connected environment in which all the participants in dispersed locations can access and interact with each other just as inside a single entity. ? (Documents to Go, WordSmith word·smith n. 1. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. 2. An expert on words. Noun 1. ) Access nature guides incorporating text, video, and audio, for handhelds to assist students with plant and animal studies? (eNature) Use highly interactive games to practice rote rote 1 n. 1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote. 2. Mechanical routine. activities like multiplication tables and spelling words, and make it fun? (Astraware) Make PowerPoint presentations wirelessly with a regular VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. projector using only a palmOne handheld and no laptop computer? (Portsmith Pitch Duo) Help prepare your students for a range of standardized tests anywhere, anytime? (Kaplan SAT or ACT for Palm OS; Easy SAT Verbal) Run a program just for substitutes? (Substitute Teacher Journal) Ensure you don't play favorites when calling on students to respond in class? (CallOnMe! For Teachers) Draw random numbers for choosing winners in a contest? (HandyRandy) Teach students about graphing and statistics using spreadsheets with an Excel compatible program called Spreadsheet To Go? (Documents To Go) Allow students to "view" the night sky with the program SkyChart, which also allows them to invert in·vert v. 1. To turn inside out or upside down. 2. To reverse the position, order, or condition of. 3. To subject to inversion. n. Something inverted. the colors so it can easily be seen while outside in the dark? (www.freewarepalm.com) --Submitted by Kathy Schrock Offer all the graphing capabilities of calculators? (ImagiMath Suite or powerOne Graph) Use its screen to serve as a small ruler for students to use in lab situations with a free program called Rulers 1.2.3? (www.palmgear.com) --Submitted by Kathy Schrock |
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