Monthly Archives: January 2003

An article on the Meeting News website describes how some professional conferences are replacing paper packets of information with handhelds loaded with the electronic versions of all documents. The PDAs are either given for free, or rented out for a … Continue reading →

Feel free to use the attached show in any way you please. You will need to make a new path to the Elliot Soloway video found at his learningathand website. http://www.psesd.org/weblogs/edtech/archives/Palm%20presentation.ppt

Most activities with handhelds use a low bandwidth form of wireless connectivity (IR). But now there are Radio Frequency (RF) add-ons that allow you to connect handhelds to a Wireless LAN (WLAN). When connected to a WLAN, students and teachers … Continue reading →

Use of a large number of Palms in the classroom is causing some teachers to voice concern over how much energy they must put into keeping them charged up. Here are a few tips on extending the battery life of … Continue reading →

If you want to use your Palm to make PowerPoint presentations, consider Cutting Edge’s new Quickpoint program. With it; you can view, edit and present PowerPoint shows. This software is part of Cutting Edge’s Quickoffice Pro suite.You can record PDA-annotated … Continue reading →

More from Conn: Here’s some interesting info on wireless options for handhelds from the Consumer Electronics Show last week: http://www.brighthand.com/article/CES_Wireless_Cards http://www.brighthand.com/article/CES_SanDisk And a few other odds and ends, including turning your handheld into an FM radio! http://www.brighthand.com/article/CES_Jan9

Conn McQuinn passed this information along. I thought it might be of interest to handheld enthusiasts. Conn says: The article referenced below, while being mainly focused on wireless networking, has several interesting sections on wireless handhelds with technologies I hadn’t … Continue reading →

If you wish to comment on items that were created in previous months, go to the particular article and click on the time the item was created. This moves you to a screen that allows you to enter a response. … Continue reading →

NSF is preparing a new report surveying research on the impact of different educational technology methods on math and sciecnce achievement: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryalert.cfm?ArticleID=4192 Apparently the researchers found strong evidence that tutorials and the like have a positive impact on student learning, … Continue reading →

Online searching is a skill that will be necessary to survive in our information-rich society. With new information rapidly outpacing any one person’s ability to keep up with it, we need to teach our students how to find what they … Continue reading →