1. Palm Pilot Project Linda Wiedenfeld 6 th Grade Teacher Ross Elementary Kuna, ID

2. Hardware & Software  35 Palm m100 handhelds  35 Quickoffice software  Excel 2000  Word 2000  6 Workstations  1 Smart Board  1 Office Jet Printer

3. Background Information  Palms purchased by the Kuna School District  For Thesis Project  Quickoffice purchased by Boise State University  For Building Bridges With Technology Project

4. Tracking Daily Assignments  Teacher inputs assignments into the “To Do List”  Beam Masters:  5 students  Beam to Classmates  All students check off assignments at the end of the day.

5. Date Book Use  Students input important due dates, schedules, and events into the date book on their Palms.  School  Home/Family  Extracurricular Activities

6. Tracking Grades

7. Other Uses  Address Book  Notes  Calculator  Clock / Alarm  Doc. Transfer - Hot sync  Games

8. Building Bridges With Technology Lesson Science / Conservation Unit

9. Key Curricular Outcomes  Problem: The world creates too much garbage.  Solution: Most of what is thrown away could be composted or recycled.  Each individual makes a difference and has an impact on the world.

10. Technology Skills  Palm Pilot  Excel:  Enter Data  Sum Function  Graphing  Hot Syncing to Workstation  Saving  Printing  Web Search  PowerPoint

11. Throw-Away-Journal  Excel Spreadsheet beamed to Palms and used to track amount and type of garbage thrown away.

12. Analyzing Data  Individual Student Data  2 Student’s Data  4 Student’s Data  Whole Class Data  Compare 2 Classes  Whole Class Data  Times by # of classes  Times by Kuna Population  Times by Idaho Population  Times by USA Population  Times by World Population

13. Graphing The Results

15. Comparing Results  Student to Student  Other Classes  Data from Web Sites

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