[MOSAIC] Using Palm Pilots

[Bonita DeAmicis]

Julie,

Hope you don't mind if I come in on this though you are talking to Shauna.

I received a grant 4 years ago to use handhelds at the fifth grade at my school.  We have been using handhelds with all fifth graders since that time.  We use Palm Es and E2s although I have heard of schools using Windows based handhelds, too.

The Es and E2s are not special (sold at Best Buy).  We have keyboards for each handheld and use them like having a class set of laptops--without the headaches of needing electricity and such.  The students sync what they write to our classroom desktops and it goes right into a file with their names.

I would be happy to share more info with you if you would like, but I would also recommend K12 Handhelds as an organization that can give you great info, too.

:)Bonita
5th Grade, California

---- Julie Sosa <sosajulie at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Hi Shauna,
> Could you elaborate more on using Palm Pilots?  Are these a special model used in the classroom?  Does it require you buy separate hardware and software?
> Julie