Greetings,
Below is my latest contribution toward using Palms
in school - the next big trend in tech integration.
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K12 Palm Software Resources -- A. Ninno
April 2000, Center for Learning Technologies,
CNYRegion Information Center, OCM-BOCES, Syracuse, NY
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There are many Palm programs other than the calendar,
addressbook, to-do list, mail, and memo programs that come
with a Palm. Third-party software can be used by students
and educators, such as doc readers/editors, databases,
calculators, spreadsheets, web-clippers, etc. Below is
a short list to get you started using a Palm in school.
AvantGo - free account & software to put webpages in a Palm
Choose from over 300 website "channels", such as NY Times,
WeatherChannel, USA Today, Sky & Telescope, MapBlast, etc.
http://avantgo.com
BeamBox - beam files not seen by the resident Palm OS
beaming software, such as Palm docs, databases, etc.
http://www.inkverse.com/beambox.html
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
CityZen - freeware world map, database, geograhy quiz
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hancockd/CityZen/
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
CSpotRun - freeware Palm doc reader
Use this to read docs downloaded from Memoware.com
http://www.pobox.com/~bill.clagett/?palm
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
Documents to Go - put Word, WordPerfect, Excel, etc., files in a Palm
http://www.dataviz.com
Due Yesterday - student planner for the Palm - Tom Bulatewicz
http://www.nosleep.net
Four Zero - student planner for the Palm - Nathan Black
http://www.xmission.com/~nblack
http://www.palmcentral.com/3com/education.shtml
http://palmpilotware.palmpilotware.com/education.html
iGraph freeware graphing calculator - Justin Manus
email to: jmanus@leland.stanford.edu
http://www.handango.com
ImagiProbe - handheld data collection software
ImagiWorks, Inc.
http://imagiworks.com/
IRChat - freeware interactive whiteboard for Palms
http://www.palmix.itil.com/newpalmix/products/irchat_home.htm
IRP2PChat v2.0 - commercial upgrade version
http://www.iscomplete.org/products.htm
http://www.iscomplete.org/IrP2PChat/irp2pcha2.htm
IrPrint Suite 1.0R3 - print via the Palm IR port!
http://www.iscomplete.org/products.htm
http://www.iscomplete.org/IrPrint/irprintf3.htm
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
JFile Pro - a top-rated Palm database program
http://www.land-j.com/jfile.html
Learner-Profiles & Learner-Profiles-to-Go
Sunburst Software, Inc.
http://www.sunburst.com/
MathGraph graphing calculator
http://rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de/~holler/mathgraph/
http://www2.viaweb.com/pilotgearsw/alhol.html
http://www.AHSoftware.de/mathgraph
http://pda.tucows.com/palm/calc_scientific.html
Memoware - free public domain ebooks, texts & databases
Classic literature, non-fiction, reference data, links, etc.
Read Plato, Shakespeare, Twain, or the US Constitution on a Palm.
http://www.memoware.com
MetriCalc - freeware metric conversion calculator
http://www.jacksprogramming.com/index.html
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
New York State Learning Standards - Palm Doc - zipped
http://www.memoware.com/c-miscellaneous.htm
Scroll down until you see the title, then download.
Formated & uploaded by Kraig Pritts, Moravia, NY, CSD.
email to: kraig@pobox.com
PalmGlobe - freeware earthview geography program
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com
PalmGo & Pilot Go - Two programs to play Go on a Palm
FYI, Go is a 4,000 year-old Asian board game.
Go is to chess, as mathematics is to accounting.
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
PalmPrint - print Palm docs via the IR port!
http://www.stevenscreek.com/pilot/palmprint.shtml
http://pda.tucows.com/palm/ir_util.html
http://www.handango.com
Parens scientfic calculator - by Rick Huebner
http://www.probe.net/~rhuebner/index.html
http://pda.tucows.com/palm/calc_scientific.html
http://www.handango.com/
http://www.palmgear.com/
Perio - freeware periodic table software
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
Planetarium - by A. Hofer
http://www.pilotgear.com
http://www.aho.ch/pilotplanets
email to: planets@aho.ch
Pocket Star Chart - by Kevin Polk
http://www.pilotgear.com
http://www.muse-of-fire.com
email to: kevin@muse-of-fire.com
PocketChess
http://www.eskimo.com/~scottlu/
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
Polyhedra - freeware rotate 3D geometry figures
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
Quicksheet - a top-rated Palm spreadsheet program
http://www.cesinc.com/quicksheet/quicksheet.html
SmartDoc v2.0 top-rated Palm doc reader/editor
http://pda.tucows.com/palm/docreader.html
http://www.palmgear.com
http://www.handango.com
Special Education info as Palm docs
Updated Part 200 Regulations, NYS Commissioner of Educ.
I.D.E.A. 1997 Reauthorization
http://members.aol.com/eszaidlins/esztool2.htm
http://www.memoware.com/c-miscellaneous.htm - scroll down
StudentMate - student planner for the Palm
http://www.jet-ware.com/studentmate.html
TAPRO 2 - Teacher's Assistant Professional
Great Spirit Software, Inc.
http://greatspiritsoftware.com/
WorldTime - freeware world time clock
http://www.cdpubs.com/
email to: wtime@cdpubs.com
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List of references for student, teacher, and administrator Palm use:
A Computer in the Palm of Their Hands
By Kate Crawford & Carolyn Staudt
http://concord.org/1999fall/palm-computer.html
Beaming students won't make teachers smile: The latest classroom
craze - eSchool News staff and wire service reports, Feb. 2000
http://www.eschoolnews.com/archive.html?XP_PUB=eschoolprint&XP_TABLE=2000021
010.db&XP_RECORD=950206437
Handheld Design Awards for Education
CILT: Center for Innovatice Learning Technologies
http://kn.cilt.org/palm99/categories.html
Dick Tracy Goes Digital: Educators Take to PDAs
By Todd Leeuwenburgh, Electronic School, January, 1999.
http://www.electronic-school.com/199901/0199toolsofthetrade.html
Educators Palm Website -- KSU College of Education, Manhattan KS
http://educatorspalm.org/
Handheld Computing for Educational Leaders:
A Tool for Organizing or Empowerment?
By David Pownell and Gerald D. Bailey
To be published in the May 2000 issue of Leading & Learning
with Technology, the monthly journal of the International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
http://educatorspalm.org/leadership/leadarticle.html
More Time to Teach with the H/PC (handheld PC)
By John Woodring, Handheld PC Magazine, September, 1998.
(past issues: Sept. '98)
http://www/hpcmag.com
Palo Alto School Gives Tryout to Palm VII
By Dan Gillmor, The Mercury Center, Silicon Valley News,
December 18, 1999.
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/dg121999.htm
Palm Computers Moving From the Workplace to the Classroom
By Andrew Trotter, Education Week, October 27, 1999.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=09palm.h19
Probing Untested Ground
By Carolyn Staudt
http://www.imagiworks.com/prod_ed/stories.html
Record of a "Teachers.Net" chat with Marjan Glavac,
November 13, 1998. Glavac is a teacher, and author of
The Busy Educator's Guide to the World Wide Web.
http://www.teachers.net/archive/glavac4.html
Records of queries and discussions about using handheld
computers in schools, on the EDTECH mailing list for K12
teachers, administrators, and technology coordinators.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb/
http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/EDTECH.html
Staying on Top of Middle School with My H\PC
by Kirk Cowgill (a 7th grade student), Handheld PC Magazine, September,
1998.
(past issues: Sept. '98)
http://www/hpcmag.com
Synergy Projects & Pocket Computers
By Carolyn Staudt & Sherry Hsi
http://www.imagiworks.com/prod_ed/stories/synergy_project.html
Teacher Talk - Using the Psion 3c (handheld computer) in Primary School,
1998
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/1900/hteachPsi3b.htm
They've Got the Whole World in Their Palms
By Catherine Greenman, NY Times on the Web, 9-2-99
http://www.nytimes.com/ - see archives
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General Palm-User Resources
Palm Guru - reviews of Palm-related products
http://www.palmguru.com/
Palmtops/PDAs at About.com - reviews, links, etc.
http://palmtops.about.com/compute/palmtops/
The Gadgeteer - reviews of Palm-related products
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/palmos.html
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"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from."
Anton Ninno, Systems Consultant
email: aninno@cnyric.org
315-431-8407 voice & 315-433- 8368 fax
http://www.ocm.cnyric.org/learntech/
Center for Learning Technologies
CNY Regional Information Center
OCM Board of Cooperative Educational Services
6820 Thompson Road, Syracuse, NY 13221