Conference Brings Palms to the Classroom

With the National School Boards Association's 14th Annual Technology + Learning Conference going on this week, there have been several announcements about Palm use in schools. The first one was the Palm Education Pioneers program to award grants to teachers to study Palm use in classrooms but there have also been Palm-related announcements from eHomeRoom and Scholastic.

eHomeRoom, an online community for connecting K-12 teachers, parents and students, announced an app, also called eHomeRoom, that lets teachers enter schedules and classroom information for viewing by parents and students via the Web or Palm.Net. Teachers can also add new info using a Palm and update this information wirelessly or by HotSync.

Scholastic Inc., the children's publishing company, has announced its plans to provide educational content for students and planning tools for teachers via Palm handhelds and Palm.Net. Scholastic will provide information and activities from Scholastic.com, their Web site, to help build student learning skills at home and at school.

Scholastic's offerings will include the award-winning News Zone (daily news for children), Best Lessons (daily lesson plans, activities and teaching tips), and an Events Calendar (monthly calendar of upcoming author chats, feature projects and selected booklists to accompany each activity), to be used by teachers and students. In addition, Scholastic and Palm will work together on special learning events where students report from the field on topics such as the presidential election.

Also, back on October, Palm launched its Campus Developer Program which offers Palm-developed curriculum materials at a greatly reduced cost to colleges and high schools teaching students how to develop software for the Palm platform

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Palm Lesson

I.M. Anonymous @ 10/27/2000 11:02:40 AM #
Right now there is a pilot project of Palms used in the classroom. Data is transmitted using infra red.
It was Germany who started this already two years ago.
Two students have developed a system for teachers and students to learn and work together on software that makes the classroom compatible for the next millenium.
More info: dkoerner@fos-web.de

RE: Palm Lesson
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/30/2000 10:56:32 AM #
I am the Director of Marketing for a new company in the wireless ed space and I would love to get a conversation going with you on some of your experiences.

Please contact me at paul.waxman@educate.com or call me in the US at 1 410 913 3506

Thanks

Paul Waxman

Weak sause

Nate @ 10/28/2000 3:54:58 PM #
This is lame. Give me a break. Only a loser is going to go out and buy a new palm. Come on be for real. I mean your Palmpilots are falling way behind casio, hp, and compaq. You better make steps to improve.
RE: Weak sause
I.M. Anonymous @ 10/29/2000 12:24:33 AM #
At least they dpn't crash :D

RE: Weak sause
GregGaub @ 10/30/2000 12:08:32 PM #
There's a word for people who post flame-bait like that, Nate: Troll.
If you hate Palms and love PPCs so much, then go spout your drivel somewhere else.
-Greg

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