Educational Uses For PDAs

Children's Illustrated e-Tales

ETales are short stories with colorful illustrations for early readers. EBooks are simply downloaded to a desktop computer and installed on a Palm handheld. Note: Operating system of 3.5 or greater is required.

Noah Lite

Noah Lite is an extensive dictionary for the Palm handheld computer, containing over 122 thousand words and definitions. It comes standard with one database of words, while three others can be downloaded as freeware through www.arslexis.com.

Thesaurus

This application turns the palm into a portable thesaurus, providing students with many synonyms. You can easily search for verbs, adverbs, nouns, and adjectives. Students can search for the right word and check that it is spelled correctly with the spellchecker feature.

Thought Manager For Teachers

Teachers are finding that personal digital assistants (PDAs) can do more than keep a calendar and a to-do list.

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