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Enhancing Education with PDAs: Practical Insights and Applications for Teachers

Join Plamen Miltenoff and Gary Schnellert as they explore the integration of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in educational settings. This session covers an overview of PDA functionalities, comparative insights between PalmOS and PocketPC, and hands-on experiences with various brands. Learn about educational applications like mVal for performance assessment, lesson planning, and enhancing teacher-student interactions. Discover the benefits, challenges, and future potential of PDAs in modern classrooms and how they can be utilized to strengthen teaching and learning.

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Enhancing Education with PDAs: Practical Insights and Applications for Teachers

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  1. The SCSU Team Plamen Miltenoff pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu Gary Schnellert glschnellert@stcloudstate.edu • Who are we • Today’s agenda: • Overview • Hands-on • Comparing platforms • mVal in a classroom • Discussion

  2. What is PDA? • What are these things anyway? • More than an organizer • Almost a computer • Operating Systems: underneath it all • PalmOS vs. Windows OS (PocketPC) • Brands & models • Handspring, Sony, Palm, Compaq

  3. Hands-on • Sell/Buy a handheld • Choose the OS • PalmOS http://www.palmsource.com/ • PocketPC http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/products/pocketpc/default.mspx • Choose the product • Handspring http://www.handspring.com/ • Sony http://www.cliedeveloper.com/top.html • Palm http://www.palm.com/home.html • Compaq http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html

  4. Educational PDA Apps • Palm OS • mVal • Teacher Performance • Lesson Planner • PocketPC • SpareBrains!Student: arrange student’s data • Coordinator’s Scope: coordinates teachers schedule

  5. Goals for Using Technology in School • Increasing basic skills • Motivating students • Responses to different learning styles • Strengthening teachers performance • Modernizing the school culture

  6. Application of PDAs in the classroom • Curriculum • Student Achievement (grade) • Student-Parents interaction • Teacher (classroom management)

  7. Limitations of Using PDAs • Systematic professional development • Lack of Administrative support • Focus on technology not content

  8. Advantages of PDAs in the Classroom • On site instruction • Regular classroom application • In classroom, lab or in the field • Data collection on site • One computer/unlimited PDA’s

  9. Overview • mVal complete performance • Appraise -students -faculty -staff -administration • View individual student & class performance • Customize to 7 levels of performance with rubrics

  10. Features for Teacher Use • Plan:Build and share resources and activities • Assess:Demonstrates the performance in numerically or graphically • Report:Produces anecdotal report

  11. Features for Administrative Use • Analyze school performance • Create graphs, charts and generate form letters • Track student's attendance record and behavior incidents • Import and compare test results • Performance evaluation

  12. Features or Curriculum Standard • Access to curriculum standards • Review state standards on PDA • Mark selected standards that have been covered in the classroom • Access to supplementary materials

  13. More… • Campus wide management: • http://www.nearspace.com/education/index.htm • Quizzes for PDAs: • http://www.quizapp.com/ (Palm OS only) • http://www.quizzlerpro.com/ (Palm OS only)

  14. Questions Plamen Miltenoff pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu Gary Schnellert glschnellert@stcloudstate.edu

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