Registered: Apr 2000
Location: St Petersburg Fla
Posts: 224

Pinellas County School Resource officers and adminstrators are using PDA's to help with determining student schedules, name/address for emergencies, etc. Newspaper article did not mention if they were Palm or PPC.
Hopefully they are using password protection software in case a unit is lost or stolen.
Students should be allowed to use PDA's in school. They are a tool just as calculators are. I'm sure that teachers can tell if a student is using it for notes or just playing games.

Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Singapore
Posts: 174

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Originally posted by dietrichbohn
I'm too chicken to whip out the stowaway for notes in class, although I may overcome that.. problem is that all the desks are those little guys, so there's no room (anybody want to give me a halfkeyboard?)

What burns me up is the absolute lack of tech support at school. I'm not expecting much, just SOME way to access the printers at school. They don't have any IR printers, won't by the adapter, don't have cradles, and won't even spring for a goddman CF card reader! I got Nothing! Which means that my portability solutions aren't, because I have to go home to print, and my profs are not and will never be the kind of folk who take papers via IR!!

Oh yeah, it's the U of MN. Punks, I say.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 229

I just get a lot of, what is this a calculator? and where'd you get the money to pay for that?...That's about it...Teachers and staff aren't realy into technology in my school so to them it's just a calculator, and to my classmates it's something rediculously expensive to own.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aberdeen, SD
Posts: 2531

I've used my visor for notes since day 1. As for playing games during classes - I only do it when the class is elementary or the prof is an idiot.

I always find it interesting when a prof has to resort to banning all forms of diversion to get the student to pay attention (granted, it's a different story with children). It's a sad commentary, to say the least.

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Singapore
Posts: 174

Well, just the other day, my English teacher saw me using my Deluxe and asked me to "show" her how it works.

I showed her that I was able to use Graffiti and the software keyboard to input text and to do essays and stuff like that.

And I showed her the DateBook function, the AddressBook function, DiddleBug and To-Do list, and other apps... and boy, was she impressed!

Well, she's the only teacher that don't mind me using my Visor in class... so far :P

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Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 66

One quick question

I was just wondering what programs you use to take notes and keep homework organized?

Do you use grafiti, onscreen keyboard, or notes on the screen?

Registered: Aug 2001
Location:
Posts: 383

I use Wordsmith Memopad to write down my homework with graffiti and Wordsmith with the onscreen keyboard to start to write essays (need stowaway badly).

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 366

Re: One quick question

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Originally posted by Alslayer
I was just wondering what programs you use to take notes and keep homework organized?

Do you use grafiti, onscreen keyboard, or notes on the screen?

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location:
Posts: 3

I am a high school English teacher and a college student (working on my master's). I use my visor and keyboard to take notes (docs to go) and as an organizer (lesson plans, attendance, grading) for the classroom. Last year I was the only teacher on campus to use a visor. This year five other teachers have bought palms or visors. I have not seen any students with handhelds this year. Last year one of my students had a visor, but he has since graduated. Yes, one of my colleagues did try to collect his visor and wouldn't let him use it in class. The student and I went together to the principal and now handheld computers are not banned (while other electronic devices still are).

I have been the only person in my college classes taking notes on a handheld. I have seen other students on the college campus with palms, but not in my classes.

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