Solutions product guide.Personal Productivity Addit palmOne www.palmone.com Find and install software on your palmOne handheld-in two simple steps. When browsing the software catalog, Addit users can choose to buy or try titles. During their next HotSync operation, selections and payment (if any) information are processed, and Addit installs the selected software directly onto your handheld. SnapperMail Snapperfish www.snappermail.com This full-featured "fat client" e-mail application for Palm OS handhelds and Treo 600 smartphones allows school staff and students to work with e-mail as if it was on their desktop. Download attachments in native-desktop format and save them to a memory card. Or attach files to outgoing e-mail. The built-in Message Reader and Message Composer handle unlimited sizes of messages, plus a scribble scribble - To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way. "Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table." "It was working fine until one of the allocation routines scribbled on low core. app lets users handwrite hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Verb 1. a note, draw a map or send a doodle via e-mail. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Palm Wireless Keyboard palmOne www.palmone.com This folding keyboard works with Palm OS handhelds through its infrared port A transmitter/receiver for infrared signals. See IrDA and IR remote control. , making it useful in mixed-model environments. It even accommodates the landscape orientation of the new Tungsten 3 model. Intellisync Handheld Edition Intellisync Corp. www intellisync.com Using patented technology, this program lets teachers or staff simultaneously synchronize See synchronization. their handheld's data with multiple applications on their notebook or desktop computer. This includes e-mail from Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook or Outlook Express, as well as calendars, contacts and tasks, plus data files and more. DataShield Ultrasoft www.ultrasoft.com Store and organize vital information securely on a Palm OS handheld with this application. The program uses "military-strength" encryption to safeguard PIN numbers, account data, passwords and more in a password-protected database. Its built-in templates can also be customized or developed from scratch. Assessment LearnTracFX and LearnTrac eLearning Dynamics www.elearning dynamics.com LearnTrac is a classroom assessment and communication solution that allows students to "anonymously raise their hands," to participate in class. Via infrared or Wi-Fi, LearnTrac also administers tests, grades them and records results. LearnTracFX, a teacher-controlled file exchange platform, wirelessly distributes and collects materials for a class, a selected group or individual students simultaneously. It also enables teacher-controlled instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or with students. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PAAM PAAM Provincetown Art Association and Museum (Provincetown, MA) PAAM Polyacrylamide PAAM Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management PAAM Physicians' Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (Ann Arbor, Michigan) 3.0 and Handheld Learning Environment GoKnow www.goknow.com PAAM--the Archive and Application Manager for Palm OS--was made to handle large numbers of handheld computers in educational settings. Teachers use PAAM to track, review and respond to all the work done by students on their handhelds, arranged in Web-based portfolios. Version 3.0 of PAAM adds the ability to quickly install eBooks and applications, view every application on every handheld, and delete unapproved un·ap·proved adj. Not approved or sanctioned: an unapproved vaccine; an unapproved protest march. software. Data flows back and forth when handhelds are synchronized syn·chro·nize v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es v.intr. 1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous. 2. To operate in unison. v.tr. 1. . PAAM is central to the firm's Handheld Learning Environment that links together content from their FreeWrite, PicoMap, Sketchy and FlingIt (included) programs into one enriched project document. mCLASS series Wireless Generation www.wirelessgeneration.com Each of the mClass solutions allows teachers to follow along as a student reads text passages from a book, marking scores directly into their handheld. Synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. with the mCLASS Web site automatically scores and records students' reading-skill scores. The mClass: family includes Reading (K-3), QRI QRI Tone (T1 to T9) QRI Qualitative Reading Inventory (reading assessment) QRI Qualitative Requirements Information QRI Quality Results Inc (Philippines) QRI Queue Response Indicator (K-5), DIBELS DIBELS Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (K-3), and TPRI TPRI Texas Primary Reading Inventory (reading assessment) TPRI Tropical Pesticides Research Institute (Tanzania) TPRI Total Peripheral Resistance Index TPRI Texas Proficiency Reading Inventory (K-2); Tejas LEE (K-2 Spanish) is also available. Classroom Wizard Scantron Corp. www.scantron.com Classroom Wizard lets teachers test, grade and report results quickly from within class. Teachers create tests, which may include graphics, on the Classroom Wizard Web site for downloading to palmOne handhelds. Students then beam back their answers for instantaneous scoring and analysis. Detailed reports are generated and scores can update grade books as well. e*Assessment Harcourt Achieve www.harcourtachieve.com Rigby's e*Assessment lets teachers use handhelds to immediately score students on a range of observational K-3 reading assessments. Data is uploaded to a server, from which customized reports can be generated. It works with Harcourt's leveled K-3 reading texts. Assessa Desktop for Palm EyeCues Systems www.assessa.com Teachers can instantaneously score tests that students have taken on their palmOne handhelds with Assessa Desktop for Palm. Teachers may create their own tests, or use pre-existing tests from Assessa's Web site. A new version supports the Tungsten C's Wi-Fi (802.11b) capability. Math & Science Math Amigo Valiant VALIANT Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial Cardiology A series of multinational M&M trials to determine the effects of valsartan–Diovan® Technology www.mathamigo.com MathAmigo provides standards-based K-8 math activities, including supplemental and remedial materials for grades 7 and 8. The activities react to students' performance by altering the difficulty level and offering thought-provoking feedback and tutorials. Everything is automatically scored and tracked by a teacher-management system. PowerOne Graph Infinity Softworks www.infinitysw.com Featuring color graphing and more than 100 calculation templates, powerOne Graph makes it easy to focus on what is happening and why. Students can perform advanced mathematics, then graph, analyze, annotate annotate - annotation and share their results. Probeware Kit for palmOne Handhelds PASCO Scientific www.pasco.com/palm This science package includes both hardware (probes and interfaces) and software (DataStudio for Palm OS 4.0 and highe0 so students can use handheld computers to conduct science labs. The handheld automatically identifies the probe and sets up all displays. More than 40 different environmental PASPORT sensors are available. Data Pro and LabPro 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. Software & Technology www.vernier.com Data Pro software supports up to four analog or two digital sensors at once, and has an analysis mode to help students explore their results. It works with the firm's LabPro sensor-to-handheld interface and 40-plus Vernier sensors for middle and high school science. ImagiProbe and ImagiMath ImagiWorks www.imagiworks.com ImagiProbe teams data-collection sensors with Palm OS software to allow students to record and graph precise measurements via their handhelds during experiments. Version 3.1 of ImagiProbe now exports data to other handheld applications, and allows teachers to pre-install science activities and assignments into students' handhelds. ImagiMath is a trio of Palm OS applications that consists of ImagiGraph, a mathematics visualizer vi·su·al·iz·er n. One who visualizes, especially a person whose mental images are predominantly visual. Noun 1. visualizer - one whose prevailing mental imagery is visual visualiser ; ImagiCalc, a multi-function calculator; and ImagiSolve, an algebraic equation algebraic equation Mathematical statement of equality between algebraic expressions. An expression is algebraic if it involves a finite combination of numbers and variables and algebraic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a power, and solver. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MxWeb suite Media-X Systems www.media-x.com MxWeb is a suite of Web-based programs that work together or separately and include off-line as well as handheld modules, ePrincipal analyzes and tracks grades, attendance, achievement and related data. mVal, streamlines teacher evaluations, staff appraisals, peer assessments and professional-development plans. iNotice records student incidents, behaviors and/or achievements. And eWalk collects information using customizable templates. Rovenet Portable Forms Rovenet portableforms.com Rovenet Portable Forms lets district and school staff easily create custom data-collection tools for use with handhelds. Rovenet's patent-pending Document Driven technology converts a word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and document to an electronic form for handhelds and other computers. Data can be uploaded into school or district databases via e-mail, fax or XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . ScheduleFinder TruSmart Technologies www.trusmart.com ScheduleFinder lets administrators keep students' and teachers' class schedule, emergency contact data, and even their picture stored in a palmOne handheld. The program works with any student management system. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SD Deploy, SD Express, SD Assign, SD Remove Grant Street Software www.grantstreetsoftware.com These SD expansion cards' built-in software streamlines the use of multiple Palm OS handhelds, such as classroom sets. SD Deploy configures multiple handhelds. SD Express handles content-distribution duties by cloning. SD Assign quickly assigns unique HotSync names to a batch of handhelds. SD Remove does mass deletions, plus it automatically clears old assignments and schedules. GoObserve GoKnow observe.merit.edu GoObserve automates both the scheduling and performing of classroom observations of teachers using categorization and time-stamping to record, minute-by-minute, what happens. Synchronizing the handheld to a desktop computer downloads a full, printable print·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives. 2. Fit for publication: printable language. record of the observation along with a chart that visually displays how instructional time was used. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ScheduleUs Publisher and ScheduleUs Family Vision Ventures www.scheduleus.com Using ScheduleUs Publisher, schools can develop color-coded schedules that download over the Internet and go right into the Date Book of Palm OS-based handhelds. Parents access the schedules via ScheduleUs Family, which then builds a customized calendar just for their family's members. Principalm Discovery Software www.principalm.com With Principalm, K-12 principals can remotely access student information from their campus SIS right from a palmOne handheld. Version 5.0 adds "bank-strength" encryption, support for high-resolution photos, multiple-school support, and includes the Principalm Connect utility. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Connectivity & Storage IR180 WebConnect Access Point and IRSO IRSO Institute of Road Safety Officers (UK) IRSO Institut de recherche en santé d’Ottawa (French: Ottawa Health Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada) IRSO Installation Radiation Safety Officer Broadcast System TriBeam Technologies www.tribeam.com An entire classroom of handhelds can acquire two-way connectivity to a campus network and the Internet using just their infrared "beaming" ports via the IR180 LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. access point. For one-way broadcast of files, assignments and tests, the IR50 also uses infrared beaming and will collect files from students' handhelds. Either unit may be added to a transport cart that can optionally include a charging station and locking lid for a new type of wireless lab. Charging Stations & Carts TriBeam Technologies www.tribeam.com In a tabletop or lockable mobile versions, up to 32 palmOne handhelds can be charged simultaneously with these charging stations. A Freestyle station can accommodate up to 18 handhelds. A 32-slot transport cart, which can be equipped with the firm's IR180 or IR50, has an optional locking lid and a keyboard shelf. Secure File PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). Backup Card Mobile Digital Media www.palmone.com This MultiMediaCard's software offers two ways to back up and restore all of the data on a handheld computer. Its basic mode fully backs up and restores all data via an easy-to-use interface. Its advanced modes will back up and restore only the applications or databases specified. Encryption and password protection safeguard data, and compression keeps backups down to size. 128MB and 64MB Memory Expansion Cards PalmOne www. palmone.com These postage stamp-sized MultiMediaCards can store libraries of eBooks, plus photos, music clips, short videos, applications and other data on a single card. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Palm Ethernet Cradles and Charging Cradles Mobility Electronics www.mobl.com/handheld/ Formerly known as Portsmith, this firm's Ethernet cradles let schools easily give handheld users instant Internet access See how to access the Internet. plus one-touch file-synchronization. For pure charging needs, they have a 10-slot charging cradle or a 30-slot charging cart. Presentation Presenter-to-Go Margi Systems www.margi.com Presenter-to-Go delivers presentations in full color via a 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. cable connection from the handheld to a projector or large-screen. Its software generates slides from PowerPoint and all printable Windows or Macintosh applications. With the Mirror application, teachers also can demonstrate a Palm OS applications for an entire class. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pitch Solo Mobility Electronics www.mobl.com/handheld/ The Pitch Solo connects Palm OS-based handhelds to VGA projectors or large-screen monitors. Teachers can deliver PowerPoint and other presentations right from their handheld, annotate slides on the fly, and more. Pitch Solo stores multiple presentations on SD cards and connects to a handheld via USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. cable, leaving the SD card slot A socket for inserting a printed circuit board or a PC Card (CardBus card). See PC Card. free. eBeam Luida www.e-beam.com/education Classrooms equipped with ordinary whiteboards or even flip-charts can use eBeam to send notes or color diagrams that are hand-written on those surfaces to palmOne handhelds. Language Arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. & Multimedia Webster's Dictionary Webster's Dictionary - Hypertext interface. & Franklin Thesaurus Mobile Digital Media wwwpalmone.com This MultiMediaCard contains the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary's 215,000 definitions as well as the Franklin Advanced Thesaurus at one's fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . The comprehensive thesaurus provides 340,000 synonyms, antonyms and related words. Kinoma Player 2 and Kinoma Producer 2 Kinoma www.kinoma.com Kinoma Producer 2 converts video, audio, animation, photos and slides to the Kinoma-movie format for palmOne handhelds. It can even encode video so that it can be delivered from the Internet directly to a Palm OS 5 handheld. Kinoma Player 2 supports interactive movies, widescreen formats, and plays movies directly off the Internet. Documents To Go DataViz wwwdataviz.com Work with Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. , Excel, PowerPoint and other popular files on a handheld without loss of formatting using this suite of applications. Version 6 has added spell checking, word count, selective synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. of files, plus enhanced support for expansion cards and password-protected Word and Excel files. The package is offered in four editions: Standard, Premium, Office and Office Professional. RealOne Mobile Player RealNetworks www.realnetworks.com Play back music, news, videos and more with this player for handhelds (requires Palm OS 5). Formats supported include RealAudio, RealVideo and MP3 files. Simply download the content by HotSync of access it live with a real-time network connection. Palm eBook Studio Palm Digital Media www.palmdigital media.com/products/ebookstudio eBook studio's WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Pronounced "wiz-ee-wig." It refers to displaying text and graphics on screen the same as they will print on paper or display on a Web page. editor for Macintosh and Windows computers will format text, insert images or hyperlinks, import text from multiple sources and when finished, convert it into an eBook. Classics Collection Palm Digital Media www.palmdigitalmedia.com/ education/classics Get unlimited use of up to 500 eBook titles of classic literature for a full school year via the Classics Collection. Simply load the CD onto a school server to let students download titles, which are optimized for Palm Reader. Palm Reader Palm Digital Media www.palmdigitalmedia.com The free Palm Reader application displays an eBook one page at a time, plus supports embedded hyperlinks and allows readers to insert bookmarks and make annotations, For color support, upgrade to Palm Reader Pro. palmOne Education Essentials CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). Handmark www.handmark.com Education Essentials CD is the latest edition of the award-winning Mobile Mentor and Road Scholar soft ware bundles for Palm OS handhelds. Specifically selected for teachers and students, the CD's applications comprise organization, productivity, learning, assessment and communication tools--more than $400 worth of commercial software for less than $50. One highlight is Handmark's 4.0 Student planner application, which works with fourostudent.net, an online service. Also included are: ImagiMath mathematics suite. MobileDB database with more than 40 databases. Quizzler Pro for assessment, WordSmith word·smith n. 1. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. 2. An expert on words. Noun 1. for word processing, PrintBoy Documents for printing, and more than a dozen other applications. Where to Find palmOne Solutions www.palmone.com/education www.palmgear.com www.palmsource.com/ applications/ |
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