PDA's in Education
Books
101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer
Changing How We Teach and Learn with Handheld Computers
Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers
Handhelds for Teachers and Administrators
Tips and Tricks for Using Handhelds in the Classroom
Websites
This site includes games and puzzles that can be downloaded for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, smartphones, and PDAs.
This site includes links to other sites where applications and software can be downloaded. Organized by use or subject with administrative tools, student tools for many subjects, reference tools, multimedia, and tools for teachers.
Free games, puzzles, calculators, and picture software is included at this site.
Freeware includes ChemTable, Social Survey, Wiseman, Morse Code Tutor, SixInOne Dictionary, Species Inventory, Vocab, Math Ace, Gone Mad, Angles, SubtractionSubmarine, Schoolwork, Thesaurus, Spelling Bee Tutor, Homework Helper, ESL programs, Metric Prefixes.
FreewarePalm includes ChemTable, Latin Endings, Gone Mad, PCards, MCards, Schoolwork, Karel the Robot, Species Inventory, Divisible, Vocabulary Cards, Language Tutor, MixedUp, Math Ace, Dictate, LCM-GCF, Angles, Peck bird information manager app., Dictionary, Astronomy Terms, Bubble Blasters, America, and Data Snoop.
Go 'n Tell allows you to create a virtual scrapbook. "In the educational environment, Go 'n Tell promotes creative writing and exploration".
Many free educational PDA applications are available at this site including Letters ("goal is to put all the letters in alphabetical order"), Band Mate ("lesson tracking software for students to track the time spent practicing an instrument"), Basic German ("Flash cards with basic German words and their English equivalents in 10 categories"), Bogme ("hand held version of Boggle"), Braille Alphabet, Chemical Elements ("learn to know what elements have symbols such as Mo, Sn, Pb, or Au"), etc.
This site includes eReader, Quizzler, Due Yesterday, Idea Pad, ChemTable, Simplify, QuizWiz, What-If Builder, MixedUp, etc.
Learning in Hand: Lesson Plans
"Participants in the Handhelds in Teaching & Learning graduate class created lesson plans including adjective fun, angles in art, building biographies, exploring integers, fables, fun with food, genres in literature, etc."
Learning in Hand: Palm Software
Software is sorted into educational application folders including art, cross-curricular, language arts, math, music PE, science, social studies, miscellaneous, and teacher applications.
Olathe District School's Palm Website
This page contains a guide to 100+ free software applications including ABC Cursive, Animate Me, QuizWiz, etc. The Handheld Lesson Plans page also contains many helpful ideas for teachers.
"Planetarium is an application for the Palm Connected Organizer that plots star charts and offers some unique, useful features for the beginning star gazer as well as for the profession astronomer." Features include- method for drawing a sky map, compass view for easy location of objects, compass when sun or moon is visible, world clock, observation log, and location data base of 600 major cities.
Educational games for Pocket PCs, smartphones, etc. including information about the US Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, PocketChemistry, World Atlas, Virtual Planetarium, Due Yesterday Student Organizer, etc.
Quizzler Reader, Quizzler Pro Student Pack, Quizzler Pro Instructor Pack, Quizzler Maker, Quizzler Gradebook is available at this site.
The Soft 32 site includes a music downloader, video converter, games, talking dictionary, bluetooth, video player, flash player.
The Soft Empire site includes a Desktop Manager, Games, Image Converter, Data Recovery, Flashcards, Quick Lookup, Money Tracker, Media Player, Calculator, Note Taker, Atlas, Pack Metrics, Brain Gym, Puzzles, Conversions, Maps, etc.
SuccessLink Handheld Computer Resources
SuccessLink has compiled research/articles and websites on Palms.
Tucows Software Downloads - Teaching Aids
Teaching and student aids available at this site include Assignment 1.5 ("handy application that keeps track of your assignments"), Lesson Plan ("gives you the ability to keep and edit lesson plans on your handheld"), RealTeacher ("contains areas for teachers to organize thoughts/tasks to be dealt with outside the classroom including new ideas, loaned/borrowed items, money spent on classroom, resources for reference, and meeting bingo"), etc.
Using Palm OS Handhelds and Curriculum
Midge Frazel has created a companion web page for the book Tips and tricks for Using Handhelds in the Classroom. It includes a Palm introduction, educational funding suggestions, tutorials, and activities.
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