Education Quick Guide: Administration – PalmOne
Provides a quick and easy guide for the most viable software applications, devices, and accessories being used by administrators nationwide.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/resourcelibrary/quickguides.html

Eight Tips for Administrators Using Handheld Computers – Mguhlin.net
Provides eight tips and software related information for administrators using handhelds with specific information related to accessing student information, appraising staff and completing school walkthroughs, sharing data with other administrators, taking presentations on the road, quickly printing documents from a handheld, creating your own navigable documents from your handheld, using word processors, spreadsheets, and databases on your handheld, and connecting to the Internet and receiving email.
http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/artifacts/writings/2004/8tipspalm.htm

Handhelds Help with Student Info Systems
Article describes how the Nashua Public School District use Palm handhelds to meet the challenge of being able to access student schedules, contact information, medical information, discipline transactions, etc., in the event of a school emergency. http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/study51.html

Administrators’ Guide to Handheld Computers – The Handheld Educator
Provides a wealth of information related to using handhelds in administration, teaching, and learning.  It also includes a funding guide and resources related to NCLB, Learning Online, and 21st Century learning.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Thinking Big and Small – The Handheld Educator
This article talks about NCLB regulations and how administrators can use handhelds to improve their reporting and assessments.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

University of Texas at Dallas – PalmOne Education Solutions
This article is about the experience one school had with an all-in-one smart phone.  It explains how this product helped their administrators with their everyday problems.
http://solutions.palmone.com/regac/success_stories/education/education_details.jsp?storyId=1021

Management at your Fingertips – The Handheld Educator
This article explains how handhelds can be used for many different things at schools.  It explains how teachers and administrators have access to student’s information, allowing them instant knowledge about each student and how this is helpful.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Home-School Connection – The Handheld Educator
This article explains why the correlation between school and home is very important in a child’s development.  The article goes on to explain how a handheld device can be used to make this connection better.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Data Mining – The Handheld Educator
This particular part of the website is about how handhelds will hold a multitude of information, and what teachers and administrators can do with this information.   It specifically focuses on how handhelds can be used to prepare for the future.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Accountability – The Handheld Educator
This site explains how the handheld can be used when analyzing assessment test.  It explains how and why it is necessary to understand how a child can improve.  It also explains the means in which educators can help them do this.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Standards and Assessment
This article focuses on how teachers can understand, by giving tests, where a child is at in their learning.  It explains how a teacher goes about doing this and how it will help the students.
http://www.palm.com/us/education/studies/handheld_ed.html

Handhelds for Teachers and Administrators
By: Janet Caughlin with Tony Vincent
This Tom Snyder Productions Scholastic workshop book series covers Palm OS and Pocket PC, teaches you how to use your handheld’s built-in programs, includes lesson ideas for using handhelds across the curriculum, and comes with a CD of over 70 software programs to use with students. It is available for purchase at:
http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/product.asp?SKU=JANHAN&Subject=TeacherTools

Rediker Software
This website is about programs made by Rediker that are specifically for administrators.  There are links on this website that shows the different things that administrators can do with this software.  All of these programs can be used on the PDA, and shows pictures of all that it can do.
http://www.rediker.com/palm/Palm.html

Integrating Handhelds Across the Curriculum
We are pleased to announce that District Administration magazine has named the book "101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer" as one of the Top 100 Districts' Choice products of the year! In its review, District Administration said, "With handhelds finding a home in school districts across the country, this 370-page book should be required reading for administrators. This book covers everything from how to pick the right handheld for your district to explanations of hundreds of Palm OS and Pocket PC applications. The best part lies in the education uses explained, from classroom management ideas to cross-curricular integration strategies to detailed lesson plans."
http://www.k12handhelds.com/book.php#ihac

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