Palm Connect

Thursday, April 19, 2007

This lesson was a great reinforcement for converting units of measurement. I had taught the students how to convert units of measurement using multiplication and division. Using the Unit 2 Unit Converter, students can convert easily with little thought.

However, using the converter presented a new problem. The answer is presented as a decimal. This actually turned out great because I was able to review interpretation of decimals while reviewing unit conversion.

As usual, the students were eager to participate because of the use of the Palms. I believe they are beginning to see that the Palm is a useful tool and not only a toy.

Friday, January 12, 2007

Hi!
My name is Jessica Burnaman. I teach 4th grade math and spelling at East Beauregard Elementary. I love using Palms because it makes the kids so excited about learning.

My lesson went well. I ran into the problem of students deleting the data that was already in the palm. But, luckily I have those students who remember everything.

Students worked very well with only having to concern themselves with one aspect of graphs. They became an expert about one aspect of graphs and then made sure everyone in their groups included this aspect when making their graphs.

We used the palms to record the data for our graphs. Once the palms were hotsynced, their data was there! We had a few students who had problems with hotsyncing. But it's pretty new for them still.

I would like to find a good graph creator with the palm.