Hi Heather, I have used a class set of handhelds with my fourth-fifth grade students for four years now. We use them for writer's workshop and often for reader response--particularly with poetry. The handhelds do offer a picture dictionary option that we use to help ELD with vocabulary, although we only have a few ELD students--all the students like the dictionary feature. the students are very motivated to write and correct their writing with them--we love them. Understand that we do have a keyboard for every handheld so it is like a mini-laptop.
No for my own teacher purposes, I have found the handhelds very convenient for recording reading and writing conferences as I meet with children. I can also beam my conference notes to the students for them to think about the things we discussed and keep their own records of our conferences. hope that helps with your research--you can ask any other questions you may have by emailing me: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :)Cheers, Bonita > I'm a graduate student in the Literacy 5-12 program at Syracuse University. > Currently, I'm working on a project about how palm pilots and other handheld > computers can be used in a classroom setting. I've found a fair bit of > information about people using these devices for their organizational > qualities, and in computer-based labs in science classrooms. Yet, I have > found very little about how they can be used in an ELA classroom or to build > literacy skills. Is there anyone out there who is using palms in their > classroom or who has any brilliant ideas on how they would use palms if they > had them? Thanks! > > Heather _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
