WHAT I LEARN ABOUT HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY

I learned how to take pictures with my zire 72.

I learned how to use Bluetooth.

I learned how to beam a picture.

I learned how to make a business card and add a picture to the card.

These are just four new task I learned to perform from my Handheld class above and beyond the encouagement received in the class on continuing to stay up to date with the changing world of Technology.

HANDHELD HYYPERLINKS

http://www.intel.com/education/handhelds/
This website introduces you to Learning with handhelds. It discusses handhelds, managing with handhelds and teaching with handhelds. Handhelds are becoming increasingly popular with educators due to the affordability.

http://schoolcenter.hilton.k12.ny.us/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=3345
This is a site that provides some ideas and information about using handheld computers in a high school setting.

http://www.columbia.k12.mo.us/she/mvillasa/Handheldlinks.htm
This site gives you information about how handheld learning were used in the classroon and will address questions that been ask over the last several.

http://www.kathyschrock.net/
This site introduces you to Kathy Schrock and the conferences and workshops she can present. Below is a list of workshops she can offer your school, group, or association. In addition, she will work with you to develop whatever specialized presentation you would like in the areas of information literacy, educational technology, or technology gadgets!

http://www.educatorspalm.org/
Handheld technologies are changing the way people access and work with information. These devices are becoming smaller, cheaper, better, and more connected. Educators and students need to be taking advantage of these emerging technologies to enhance lifelong learning. This site will help all people in learning organizations to use and get the most from these devices.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic78.htm
This website will introduce you to how to integrate GPS device into the classroom. It will also share with you the difference between Handsprings, Plams and other Handheld devices.




http://www.k12handhelds.com/s_showprodinfo.php?prod=k3445
This site introduces you to Principalm. A device that provides you access to student information on a Plam OS-=based handheld computer. You will be able to access in the school hallways, on a field trip, or away from the office, the most important information about each of your students.

http://www.stanford.edu/~jmanus/edhand/
This web site is devoted to the invesigation of the use of handheld computers in education, specificially in the sciences and mathematics. There are white papers that investigate the uses of Palms in education and there is a large example (TProbe) of a functional Palm application designed specificially for education.

http://www.electronic-school.com/2001/06/0601handhelds.html
This site discusses how the business world is using handheld devices and goes on to ask the question of how the handhelds can enhance teaching and learning.

http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/02/handheld.html
A Report Card on Handheld Computing By Jean Shields and Amy Poftak Due to an appealing confluence of power, portability, and price, handheld computers are gaining momentum in schools. We've gathered reports from pioneers in the field to help you explore the pros and cons.

Class Activites / February 3, 2005

Class began with a review of Sketchy and learing how to further use the sketchy game.



Another review session was with the calendar site of palm. We learn how to create appointments in the calendar. We then learn how to beam the appointments to a classmate.



We then review the memo application of the palm by writing a memo and beaming that to a classmate.



We then had a overview of soft buttons in class using the overhead. We covered the calculator and learn how to go to preferences and make the calculator to a soft button.



We learn how to adjust brightness and learn that the brighter the brightness the more battery power was loss.



We work with the Built in Work Clock. We change some settings to work pull up local time and sites for example Columbia, SC / eastern standard time.



We played around with alarms and the noise was everywhere.



We then went over Palm Desktop and learn how to synchronze to destop computer.

Future of Mobile Technology In Education

In Education World the article "Handhelds in the Classroom" Darrell Waverly, Technology Director for of Consolidated High School District 230, talked about how the handhelds can be used across the curriculum. Ways to used were in language arts classes for students to write their papers. The Handheld can be used in math to do help caculate math problems. Students were able to use the handheld in science class when doing experiments. This was just a few of the ideas mention by Mr Waverly for using Handhelds across the curriculum.



Another beauty according to Mr. Waverly was getting technology to the point of learning. Students are able to have the handheld twenty four hours a day vs sitting in a couputer lab behind a desktop for one period each day.



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In Wired.com.news the article "Debating the Merits of Palms in Class", the Ann Arbor Open School in Michigan is an alternative public school that prides itself on accepting new ideas and student individuality, talents and interests, but does not allow handheld computers at school. Parents across america are concerned that schools are not allowing handheld to be at school when it has the following cabailities. The handheld can be used for dictionaries, graphing calculators, e-books and thermometers can be downloaded onto the Palms and used in science experiments.



Elliot Soloway, a professor in the college of engineering and school of education at the University of Michigan indicates he believes that students would rather read from the handheld than a book. He feels that this is the trend of children in todays world. His comment was "Books are Perry Como's generation.... The children don't see the Palm as a computer, they see the Palm as media. Media is hot. Media is exciting. That's why they're going to participate in the reading."



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On the website electronic-schools.com the article “Hands-On Learning its early days yet, but handheld computers are beginning to catch the educators eyes” by Del Stover, educators across America are looking and discussing the use of handheld computers in schools.



Tom Schmeltzer, an education consultant in Marietta, Ga., talks about how access to data is important.Handheld computers allows the educator to have this data in a mobile fashion to be accessed everywhere he or she may go. Schmeltzer says good administrators move around the school during the day. The ability to pull up student’s records while moving around the school is of great importance. Where is this student’s class? What time is this student suppose to be at lunch? These are questions an administrator can answer with a handheld computer when out and about in a school.



One company is experimenting with the ability to have bus drivers scan the bar code on student IDs to allow bus drivers to record pickup and delivery of students.



Jim Silbey a teacher for Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park, Ill., uses the handheld computer to beam students lessons each day and then students can in return beam back there completed lesson the next day. Students can also take notes on their handheld when on field trips.



Laurie Ritchey a biology teacher at Carl Sanburg High School has students use the handheld computer to measure the ecological footprint of their homes by gathering information on their families' use of transportation, food intake, and energy use. This information can be easily downloaded and then analysis without the need to retype data collected.



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On the website asbj.com, The Next Big Thing(s) Technology Solutions for schools today…. and tomorrow the September 2003 article “A Foothold for Handhelds by Amy Joyner, to a look into how a handheld computer changed the way Tony Vincent used technology in classroom and change his classroom.



Tony Vincent had a messy desk and classroom and one day went out and bought a handheld computer to become more organized.



Two years later Tony was chosen by administrators from his Omaha, Nebraska School to orchestrate the educational experience of using handheld computers in a fifth grade class at Willodale, Elementary.



The handhelds foster a sense of community in the classroom. The students started to ask more questions and work together as a group.