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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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Mike St. Pierre

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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.

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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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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I'm not a teacher, but I'm a kid using my visor in school!

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

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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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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.

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Greenwood, IN
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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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Registered: Feb 2001
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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.

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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.