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Personal Computing:

Learning @ Every Student

A Look at Options

For Today's Classrooms
.: Articles/Background .::. Research .::. Cell Phones .::. Games Systems .::. iPods .::. Handheld Devices .::. Computer-based Content .: Classroom Tools :.

Personal Computing: Solutions For the Classroom That Work! conference presentation (2008)
- Three R's and Three C's (AASA article)
- Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)
- Meraki (mesh networking technology)
- Personal Wireless Devices (policy from Arapahoe High School in Littleton, CO)
- Poll Everywhere (audience response text/web based application)
- Pointer annotation software (Geneva Logic)
- Optoma Pico Projector (video of the projector in action)
- Open technologies information
- Parent/student/teacher portal technology (Editure)
Web 2.0 applications (on the Open Technologies page)
Low-cost, highly engaging classroom technology alternatives
Personal Computing: Learning @ Every Student conference presentation (2006)
Computing @ Every Student conference presentation handout (2005)

Articles and background information:

A Computer on Every Desk - Edutopia Magazine, February 2005
hyperpeople - what happens after we're all connected (a blog article by Mark Pesce)
Asus Eee PC
- Asus Eee PC review - in Notebook Review
- Xubuntu for the Asus Eee PC
- Asus Eee PC and OLPC XO comparison
OLPC XO
- The $100 PC - available soon?

New design specifications (4/5/06)
Bridging the Digital Divide (more detail on the $100 PC)
Laptops for Kids With No Power (Wired story)
United Nations supports the initiative

Intel's $400 laptop - Eduwise
- eSchool News story
- Classmate PC (shipping version - lower cost?)
The Laptop Revolution Has No Clothes (Education Week article)
2006 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index (gauges Teen Americans' attitudes toward invention and innovation)
Bill Gates and ubiquitous computing (Guardian story - 10/05)
Synching Up With the iKid - Edutopia Magazine, October 2005
Ubiquitous Computing - The Computer for the 21st Century by Mark Weiser (1993)
Pervasive Computing - bringing the ideas of ubiquitous computing into the current setting.
Apple's Knowledge Navigator (1987)

Current research:

Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium
Handheld Learning Forum
Media multi-tasking (Kaiser Family Foundation report .::. Executive Summary)
The Strength of Internet Ties (Pew Internet & American Life Project)
Center for the Digital Future
Metiri Group - Solutions That Work
Handheld Devices in the Classroom
Learning with Laptops
It's My Laptop (Saul Rockman)
techLearning tablet PC article

Devices to consider:

Cell (mobile) phones
- New online document tools for iPhones
  - iZoho
  - Mobile Google Docs
- What can you learn from a cell phone? (by Marc Prensky - requires free registration)
- Cell phones in education (wwwtools for teachers)
- How Americans Use Their Cell Phones (Pew Internet & American Life report)
- CellFlix Festival - a cell phone video contest for students
- Messaging 4 Education - a new cell phone-based communications service for teachers, students, and parents (reviews, surveys, tests and more)
- Mobile Prep - flash cards for your cell phone
- Cell phones with built-in projectors
- The future of camera-enhanced cell phones (Cingular and Verizon networks work together)
- SAT Test Prep via cell phone
- ACT Test Prep via cell phone
- HomeworkNOW - online access to school information
- Opera web browsing and blog updating for cell phones
  - Blogging information
- GoTV - video programming for cell phones
- Cellevision - The Small Screen Gets Smaller (TechnologyReview.com - 6/5/05)
- Pocket sized projectors - this screen is not too small
- Google SMS
- User created mobile media .::. Rabble .::. evolving the cell phone to a Personal Media Device (PMD)
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Texas Instruments brings HDTV to cell phones (10/21/04)
- Ten Hot Handhelds (InfoWorld - 3/4/2005)
- Create your own "small screen" web site
- Coffee Cup Wireless Web Builder (software application)
- Make shorter addresses (TinyURL)
- Study on cell phones and DNA damage
Game systems
- Nintendo DS
  - Official site
  - Vision for Nintendo and the video game industry (Podcast - Satoru Iwata)
  - Web browsing and TV viewing available in June 2006
- Sony PSP
  - Official site
  - Version 2.00 update with built-in browser now available (U.S. version info)
  - Running the Mac OS on the PSP
  - PC Magazine review
  - New "hacks" provide web browsing, IM and more (Technology Review)
  - Unlocking PSP capabilities (USA Today)
  - Wikipedia information on Sony PSP
- GP2X game system - runs under a Linux operating system
- Nokia N-Gage QD
- Gizmondo
  - Official site
- Comparisons
- Video games setting new music trends (NPR report)
- Video games and education (Dr. Henry Jenkins)
iPod
- 50 Fun Things to Do With Your iPod
- The iPod at GC & SU (a pocketful of learning)
- iPods at the Gate
- iPods in the classroom
- podSites - a slice of the Web to go
- iPod eBook Creator - converts text files to use as linked notes
- iText - display text files on your iPod (Windows only)
- SAT test prep on the iPod
- SparkNotes - study guides on the iPod
- Vocabulary Minute - the Princeton Review vocabulary podcasts
- Science@NASA
- Wikipedia information on podcasting
- Podcasting (teenage author) .::. eSchool News article .::. Pew Internet/Life Report
- The Education Podcast Network
- Connect Learning (podcasts on the fly)
- teach42 (and blogs)
- Podcast Alley
- iPodder site
- PodFeeder
- Forbes on Podcasting (if Forbes is paying attention to this, it must be real)
- Podscope (search by keyword for podcasts)
- Linux Project
Other handheld learning tools
- Nokia N800 Internet tablet
- Nokia N810 Internet tablet
- Motorola Sidekick
- Sony Portable Reader System (e-book)
  - Press release
- Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC)
- IBM Linux watch
- Leapfrog Handheld Learning Tools
Handheld computers (full OS)
- Sony Vaio U Series PC
- DT Research
- OQO model 01
- FlipStart PC
- Fujitsu Lifebook P7000
Graphing calculators
PDAs
- PalmOne
- GoKnow Products
- HP iPaq Pocket PC
- Coffee Cup Wireless Web Builder (software application)
- AOL Instant Messenger

Computer-based considerations:

Instant Messaging
- AOL web-based instant messaging (click the Start button)
Text messaging (from computer to phones)
- T-Mobile.::.Cingular.::.AT&T.::.Sprint.::.Nokia phones.::.SMS Everywhere
- Shorthand dictionary (understand the "lingo")
- "Texting" teenagers are proving more literate (UK study)
Open Source and Content (for a more complete discussion on open technologies)
- The discussion around open source from Technology Review (June 2005)
  - The People Own Ideas (Lawrence Lessig)
  - The Creators Own Ideas (Richard Epstein)
- Wide Open - open source methods and their future potential
- Wikimedia Foundation - source of eight great open content resources
  - Wikibooks takes on textbook publishers (C-NET article)
- Creative Commons licensing (flexible copyright for our digital age)
  - Yahoo's Creative Commons search engine
- New York Public Library's Digital Gallery
- Internet Archive - Universal access to human knowledge
- Open content music example (Tryad :: Public Domain)
- Opsound - open source music
Where our students go today:
- TakingITGlobal - global online community
- Liveplasma - music and movies
- Evil Monkey Productions - today's comic books and more - they don't buy them at stores
- 2advanced Studios - online entertainment
- Kart00 - metasearch engine with visual display
- Google labs - checking out the latest applications
Web communication - Wikis and Blogs:
- The Enterprise Blogosphere (report from InfoWorld)
- Searching weblogs (Technorati)
- WordPress (open source blog software)
  - Blog readership skyrocketing (report)
- MediaWiki (open source wiki software)
  - WikiWikiWeb (check out the WikiWikiSandbox)

Overlay Your Classroom With Technology (supporting information for Learning @ Every Student)

Presentation handout
The research is in - use of interactive whiteboards show no improvement in student achievement (Becta research in the U.K.)
- The full report (PDF)
- Further discussion on the U.K.'s efforts in this Telegraph article.
- More current research has been completed by futurelab.
Article in the December 2006 issue of AASA's The School Administrator regarding "Engaging, Technology-Rich Classrooms on a Budget"
The newest research analysis on interactive whiteboards by Future Lab.
Low-cost alternatives to:
- Visual presenter cameras (PC cameras)
- Adding "connected" classroom computers (Belkin Ethernet over power adapters)
- Interactive classroom software annotations versus interactive presentation boards (Master Pointer)
  - new version at Pointer (GenevaLogic)
Engaging students via a single computer in the classroom
- Enhanced video/audio
- Wireless keyboards/mice
- Interwrite Pads (Bluetooth-connected tablets)
Getting the classroom picture
- Emulators (TI calculators .::. Palm PDAs)
- Pocket PC (dotPocket)
- Handheld connections to video projectors (Margi Presenter-to-Go)
- Wireless video projection (Komatsu TriLink Air Projector .::. Projector Central review)

Electronic response devices (eInstructon .::. Promethean ACTIVote)

Photo hoax - "1954 issue of Popular Mechanics showing future computer"

Please email Jim Hirsch (jim.hirsch@pisd.edu)if you have further questions.