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General Websites for Hardware and Software

There are many websites where you can download freeware, shareware, and commercial educational software. Be sure to look over those software which you can use in your class for teaching and managing the class and for fostering students' learning.

  • Handango: Handango is one of the leading providers of handhelds software for almost every field including education. You can also find hardware on this website.
  • PalmOne: PalmOne is one of the leading providers of handhelds software. You can also see ratings voted by users.
  • Media-X: This site offers software for teachers and administrators. Especially, the ePrincipal software allows teachers to "use handhelds to electronically document their standards-based curriculum planning, assess student performance, and report on that performance to the administrator and parents."
  • PalmGear.com: PalmGear is the portal for handhelds computing and also provides hardware and software for handhelds.
  • PalmSpot: PalmSpot provides various applications for handhelds.
  • PdaED.com: PdaEd.com provides hardware and software for handhelds.
  • Tucows:Tucows provides various software for handhelds.
  • Wireless Generation (mClass Assessment Software): Wireless Generation has designed and developed various types of mClass Assessment Software, especially targeted for performance assessment, for handhelds. These software programs have been designed for educators to evaluate students' performance effectively.
  • GoKnow: GoKnow is one of the premier providers of handhelds software for education.
  • ImagiWorks: ImagiWorks™, Inc. is one of the leading providers of handhelds software for math and science.
  • Handmark: Handmark provides software for handhelds in education.
  • U-Sight: Ubiquitous Computers in Education
  • pdaED.com: PdaED.com provides handheld devices, software and accessories for education as well as news and new articles for handhelds.
  • Scantron Corporation: Scantron corporation offers various products for assessment and curriculum needs--performance series and an online computer-adaptive testing system.
  • The Concord Consortium: This non-profit organization provides a list of handheld educational software. Try Free model-based learning resources.
  • Discover Handhelds: This site provides information and resources on middle school / junior high palm OS applications and accessories.
  • EduPalm: Information on how to choose and use a PDA.

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Featured Software Solutions

Arts

  • Sketchy: Sketchy is a drawing tool and easy to use. It allows students to draw an animation quickly.
  • TealPaint: TealPaint is the drawing program for PalmOS. It supports various features such as 16-bit color, grayscale support, 24 brushes, layers, animation and more.

Teacher Tools

  • Learner Profile: Learner Profile is the assessment management tool that allows teachers to record students' grades, track assignments, organize student information, and develop reports and rubrics on performance assessment.
  • PDA Teacher: PDA Teacher enables teachers to keep a student information log and provides a lesson-planning template and gradebook.
  • TeachFile: TeachFile assists teachers in tracking assignments and attendance and provides gradebooks [Note: TeachFile does not work on the newer Palm OS, 5.2]
  • X-Port (): X-Port enables teachers to manage student databases.
  • Easy Grade Pro: Easy Grade Pro enables teachers to create an electronic gradebook and store student information.
  • Pinnacle: Pinnacle enables teachers to create their electronic gradebook and access their desktop gradebook whenever they want.
  • Making the Grade- Making the Grade is an electronic grading program.
  • Palm Gradebook Assistant: The Palm Gradebook Assistant allows teachers to wirelessly access their gradebook while they move around the classroom or rest at home.
  • Participate: Participate helps teachers to score student participation easily. Teachers can easily see class arrangement on the screen.
  • Lesson Plan: Lesson Plan is a software application for teachers to build, modify, and track the lesson plans.

 

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Games

Math

  • ImagiMath:ImagiMath is a set of software applications for math--ImagiGraph, ImagiSolve, and ImagiCalc.
  • powerOne Graph: PowerOne Graph is a graphing calculator.

Music

Student Tool

  • Due Yesterday: Due Yesterday helps students to manage classwork, class information, track grades easily.

 

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