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Posted by SAINT on 01-31-2001 10:34 AM:

I am a middle and high school teacher using palm and visor computers in my classroom. I'd love to hear what other teachers are doing in the classroom to employ the palm os with students.

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Posted by bkbk on 01-31-2001 04:14 PM:

I'm not a teacher, though I've always been told I should be one.
Just wanted to be sure you knew there are 10,000 Palm OS apps out there, incl. math, sci., lang., Eng., spell., gram., vocab., etc.
On E-bay you can get one of those $10 disks w/practically every piece of shareware ever written for the Palm OS.

Last, they have that "sci.-probe" type of SB module. I don't know a thing about it, but it looks like it was just made for HS & JHS-type sci. experiements.

Give the studes my best.

Posted by miradu on 01-31-2001 09:53 PM:

I'm not a teacher, but I'm a kid using my visor in school!

MY teachers love it, and mainly I use it to take notes. No other special things excatly.. yet..

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Posted by jeff318 on 01-31-2001 11:23 PM:

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I'm not a teacher, but I'm a kid using my visor in school!

Waah! My school has a ban on all electronics and "stuff you could use to send answers to each other".

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Posted by DBrown on 01-31-2001 11:40 PM:

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Originally posted by SAINT
I am a middle and high school teacher using palm and visor computers in my classroom. I'd love to hear what other teachers are doing in the classroom to employ the palm os with students.

I'm a college professor. I teach various courses in a five year Interior Architecture program. I have just gotten my own Visor this semester. The 3rd year (junior)students I teach all are required to bring in their own CAD capable desktop computer, so they have plenty of technology in front of them to explore and play with. We have various uses of computers integrated tightly throughout the curriculum.

I'd love to hear what you have your younger students do with PALM based machines. My freshmen class is busy enough learning drafting and basic design principles. There is a push from above to move computers down to that level though. Personally if there were some useful things to teach via a Visor I would recommend requiring those as an alternative. PCs get quite outdated in 5 years. If the Visor could last them two, then their desktop PC would satisfy the higher expectations of them for the last three years.

Dave

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Posted by vandy on 02-01-2001 05:18 AM:

I also teach (graduate school) and have Teacher's P.E.T. on both my Palm Vx and Visor. I have a paperless classroom. About half of my students carry Palm devices so I just beam them my lectures right after class (I e-mail it afterwards to the rest). Bi-weekly and term papers are likewise beamed back and forth. I set-up AvantGo versions of my class homepages too so those with Palms can have webtogo access to our homepages (like those who bring their notebooks to class). Electronic Bibles (with search functions)and the Greek New Testament are two important tools in my classes and Palm OS versions for both are as useful as PC versions.

You can check out http://www.palm.com/education for the latest on software, institutional success stories, grants, and other stuff.

Posted by BertBert on 02-01-2001 08:38 PM:

vandy,

Are all the students in your course required to have a PDA or a notebook? If so, are they provided with one or do they just have to go out and buy one? Your use of the PDA is really quite interesting.

By the way, I am a Vandy graduate myself -- PhD mathematics in 1997. Go 'Dores!

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Posted by septimus on 02-01-2001 09:12 PM:

Vandy,

Very impressed with your use of tech in the classroom. Curious: what software to do you use for your lecture notes?

All profs should be so savvy.

Posted by vandy on 02-02-2001 03:15 PM:

Thanks for your responses.

BertBert,
We missed each other (I started August 1997. I came from Princeton). I don't require notebooks or PDAs in my classes. I just follow the pedagogical dictum: "Start where people are and build on what they've got." Majority of my students are second-career individuals so they come to class with a host of high-tech toys. I just show them how to make optimum use of their equipment (we all know that there are people who use their Pentium III ThinkPads as wordprocessors--sort of using only 5% of one's brain).

dietrichbohn,
I have Cutting Edge's QuickOffice and BlueNomad's WordSmith. I particularly like their auto-scrolling features (that temporarily disable my handheld's auto-shutoff). I usually give this informal "How Not To Bust One's Butt When In Graduate School" presentation before first year students and part of it is arguing for a $400 notebook alternative (Palm OS handheld, ThinkOutside keyboard, and something like QuickOffice).

Stay safe y'all.

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