Palm support on the Mac (Monday, June 18th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Palm, School at 10:02 pm with 2 comments.

I’ve been a little cranky for the past couple of days about Palm. Love, hate. Love, hate. Hate.
The latest? This company called GoKnow Learning publishes a few apps I’m supposed to use for class–specifically, Sketchy and FlingIt!–but there are issues, wouldn’t you know.
Sketchy, prior to like version 1.9.5, doesn’t work on the T|X. The Mac […]

A new life for my Palm (Friday, June 15th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Palm, School at 8:26 am with no comments.

I’m taking a course on handhelds in education this summer. It’s Palm-specific, for better or worse. I’ve learned so far that schools actually are using these things, mainly for economic reasons (a $200 Palm is much easier on the pocketbook than a computer costing five times that much).
The good news for me is the class […]

On this week’s new gadgets (Wednesday, May 30th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Palm, Work at 8:49 pm with no comments.

Whew, I’ve been knee-deep in a week-long workshop on Teaching Content to All–although I’ve been getting regular exposure to the concepts being introduced for a good ten years, it was nigh time to get some formal instruction. It’s been eye-opening–even though I don’t really do face-to-face instruction, my shop is doing more and more online, […]