Agenda

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Agenda

• Get Plugged In!
• Review from April 30 workshop
• Specific Palm OS software
• Memopad
• Notepad
• Address book
• Calendar
• To Do
• Palm Desktop Software
• Synchronizing (Synching)

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Agenda

• Installing software from CD
• Beaming software
• Downloading and installing software from the
  Internet
• Troubleshooting
• Other goodies for Handhelds
• LUNCH
• Using Handhelds in education

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Memopad

• Text-based memo software
• Minimal word processing capabilities

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How do you enter text into Memopad (or most
anything else on your Palm)

• Beaming
• Graffiti
• Synching
• Tapboard
• Keyboard

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Text Entry

• Beaming
• Receive a beamed copy of the agenda
• Graffiti 2
• Take some time to learn beginning Graffiti

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4 Software Buttons

• Calendar
• Address
• To Do
• Notepad

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Notepad

• Graphics based
• not text based
• Difference between Notepad and Memopad

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Address Book

• Press Address Book button
• Make your business card
• Use Graffiti to enter text
• Beam your card to everyone else
• Use beaming to enter text
• Press and hold Address Book button

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Calendar

• Press calendar button
• Make an entry
• Mondays workshop 8-5
• Repeat it by the day
• Make an entry for someones birthday or Nevada
  Day
• Repeat it by the year
• Press calendar button multiple times

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To Do List(s)

• Make a To Do item
• Receive beamed To Do item

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Insert Palm OS CD do Easy Install of Palm
Desktop Software

• Calendar
• Address book
• To Do
• Memo
• Synchronization management

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Use the Desktop software

• Create a calendar event
• Next weeks training event
• Use repeat feature
• Create an Address Book entry
• Add IITTL contact info
• NOTE other address and calendar software can
  work with Palm OS besides this

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Synchronize!Press button on cradle and watch
and wait

• When its finished
• Look for beamed addresses on your desktop
• Look for IITTL address on your Palm
• Look for this weeks training on your desktop
  calendar
• Look for next weeks training on your Palm

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Why Synchronize?

• Keep up-to-date both at home/work and away
• Tap Find button and enter STIC
• Did it list both address and calendar items?
• EASY backup
• What if you lose your Palm?
• Compare to losing a Daytimer

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Synchronizing can also be used to install software

• Install 2 of the 6 bonus software from the 2nd CD
• DataViz
• PalmReader
• Synchronize again

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E-Books

• PalmReader is one of several formats for e-Books
  usually software is free but you pay for the
  books
• Others include
• Mobipocket
• e-Reader

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DataVizs Documents to Go

• Create and edit Word and Excel files on the Palm
  and synch them with your desktop

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DataVizs Documents to Go

• Put Windows PowerPoint files on your Palm for
  projecting using PresenterToGo

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Documents to Go Word to Go

• Make a Word document on your Palm that is a
  bulleted or numbered list of a wish list
• Synchronize
• Find it on your desktop and save it in a good
  place

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Documents to Go Sheets to Go

• Make an Excel spreadsheet on your desktop that
  shows the lunch expenses of 16 participants
• Synchronize
• Open the spreadsheet on your Palm and calculate
  the average cost of lunch for the group

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Types of Palm software

• Demo
• Free
• Shareware
• Purchased

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How to Install software

• Look at the note of the To Do item we beamed
  earlier
• What are the three ways to install software?

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Installing software

• You installed DataViz and PalmReader
• Soon well download from the Internet
• We are going to beam you astronomy freeware
• compare time and ease of installation to a
  desktop software install

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Trouble--shooting

• How to reset/when to reset
• What happens when your battery is low
• How to re-digitize
• Categorizing
• How much memory is left
• Deleting software
• Viruses

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Keeping up with the Joneses -- Goodies for your
Palm

• Keyboard
• Camera
• Travel charger
• E-Books
• Software
• GPS
• Memory card
• Cell phone with IR

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Goodies to go with your handhelds in the classroom

• Projection device
• IR printer
• Science Probes

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Lunch!
I cant wait to wrap my lips around that
cheeseburger!
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After Lunch Agenda

• Look at ways to use Palms in the classroom
• Learn some of the tips and tricks used by
  classroom teachers
• Share resources related to Palms in the classroom

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Palms in the classroom

• The Palm is not a stepchild to a PC
• Utilize its unique capabilities/ features
• True portability
• Beaming
• Instant on off
• Instant save
• Fewer cables

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Downloading software from the Internet

• Find the software on the Internet
• Generally, there are four kinds
• Demo/trial version
• Freeware
• Shareware
• Purchaseware

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Downloading software from the Internet --
continued

• Unstuff or unzip it, if needed
• Install itgenerally, it goes where its
  neededjust pick the defaults and let it work
• If not find the .prc file and add to your list
  of software to install on the next synch
• Synchronize

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Palm Resources

• courseweb.
• tac.unt.edu/
• Overall/palm

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In Class Assignment

• Search for an activity that uses Handheld
  Computers in a classroom
• Download the software to your Palm and try it
• Share the activity and the resources