Shows the phase of the moon for any given date. Even display a picture of the moon.
Tips for Using Handhelds with only the original applications
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Tips for Using Handhelds with only the original application-PDF
Click here for Online version of Using Handhelds with Special Needs Students handout--Best to use for following the tons of links in the document!
Click here for an Online version of the Palm Application Info handout--read summaries and follow links to download the applications.
Summaries (and links) of FREE Applications for Palms!
Today: http://nikman.k2.net/today/ The Today application gathers information from the built-in applications Date Book and To Do and displays them together with current time and date and owner of the handheld device.
Math Card: http://www.freewarepalm.com/educational/mathcard.shtml A simple program that asks Elementary level mathematics questions. Optionally includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Automatically opens to math equations. Clear score and start again by tapping on “MathCard” in upper left corner and selecting “Reset Score”
TanFree http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/smallwaretangramsfree.shtml 40 free silhouette puzzles from the smallWare Tangrams Collection(TM). Using only seven simple shapes, see if you can recreate the silhouettes of animals, people, and things that have been entertaining folks around the world for centuries. Just tap and drag to move the pieces around. Tap on the menu (upper left corner) to change silhouettes.
Simplify: http://www.schau.com/ Simplify is a simple learning tool. In Simplify you must reduce fractions. For each correct fraction reduced you score 1 point. You can set the size of the denominator using the dropdown in the upper right corner. When changing the size of the denominator your score is reset. Simplify is primarily meant for pupils in the lower grades.
Timerfacts: http://www.freewarepalm.com/educational/timermathfacts.shtml Beta Test version of a math facts quizzer that allows adjustment of the maximum operand to adapt to varying grade levels and an adjustable timer. In layman terms: it times the user as they answer math facts. Choose from add, multiply, subtract and divide. The options let you change the difficulty of the math problems, and the length of the “quiz”.
KidzCalc: http://www.toysoft.ca/kidzcalc.html This is a simple talking calculator for the handheld. The user hears every number tapped as well as the solution. It’s not free but it is cheap: $5.99
Prize wheel:
http://pdassi.de/product.php?prod_id=2611
Not just a "number
picker"!
Plenty of noise, flashing, and suspense before the final winner is revealed
between the limits you set. Use in contests, drawings, anywhere an impartial
winner is needed. Even a 1 of 8 secondary bonus if the "wheel" stops on the
spoke you select. Special pains have been taken to assure a truly random
winner.
Quizzler: http://www.quizzlerpro.com/downloads.html You can use the free Quizzler Reader to read any quiz, and download lots of free quizzes from our Quiz Library. You can also create your own quizzes or flashcards using our simple and easy Quizzler Maker software. Teachers can even beam quizzes to students in a classroom, then receive all the student scores for instant analysis -- no more tedious grading by hand!
eReader: http://www.channelping.com/readers/ Allows you to read text on your palm. The Pro version allows you to create students work into ebooks that can be read on the Palm!
Aero Player: http://www.aerodrome.us/download.html MP3 player $14.95
RealPlayer: http://www.realnetworks.com/industries/mobile/operators/products/player/palm/ Free! RealPlayer for Palm runs on the latest Palm-branded OS 5 devices with ARM processors. It supports the local playback of MP3 and RealAudio content from inserted SD memory cards. The RealPlayer for Palm currently supports the following Palm PDAs: Tungsten T, T2, T3, and C ;Zire 31, 71, and 72 ;Treo 600
IKWL: http://goknow.com/Products/iKWL/ Students record what they know, wonder, and learned about a topic. Once the program is launched, tap on “New” to create a new topic or tap on the name of a topic that is already entered. Choose from “iknow”, “iWonder” and “iLearned” to enter information.
Animate me: http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk/ Allows users to create up to 10 different slideshows.
Sketchy: http://goknow.com/Products/Sketchy/ Sketchy™ is an animation/drawing tool featuring many pen options, geometric objects, up to 999 frames, and an easy-to-use interface. Helpful features such as duplicate, insert and delete allow quick and clean animation creation
Num-Num: http://www.thisiscool.com/Num-Num.htm is a freeware program that changes a number to its verbal equivalent. A number (written in numbers) could be converted to money (how it's written on a check), year, ordinal, or cardinal. Life skills lessons, whether in the resource room, or in a regular L.A. block would be good venues to practice moving from spelled out numbers to cardinals and ordinals and back. There is some availability to foreign languages with this program as well. Grades 5-8 would be good grade levels to practice on this application.
Pixionary:
http://www.softpile.com/Games/Scenarios/Review_40496_index.html
Features over 3,000 words to
draw in 8 different categories from animals to mythology.
- Play against other players or in teams through the Game section or practice
your drawing skills in the Studio section.
- Lookup the definition of the word before and after drawing with its Definition
feature.
Quiz-Buddy http://www.downloadfreetrial.com/downloads/educ11989file1.html - Can you memorize random dates, foreign words, etc. without ANY effort? If so, you don't need this program! On the other hand, if you are like most people, your long-term memory will absorb new information only after lots of repetition. And that's exactly where Quiz-Buddy for Palm OS will help!
Hungman: http://www.freewarepalm.com/games/hungman.shtml Play Hangman with your Pilot. Use the word lists that appeal to you. Fun and educational. Have students create wordlists from their spelling words. 2 applications hotsync to your palm: Hungload and Hungman. Add spelling words to the “HungLoad” application and play hangman using the spelling words in the “Hungman” application.
Spell it: http://freewarepalm.com/educational/spellit.shtml Enter weekly spelling lists and then practice the words. User enters spelling words and a clue or definition to the word. During the Quiz mode, the user reads the “Clue” to decide on which spelling word it is.
Advant Go http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html With AvantGo, you can get thousands of specially formatted brand-name web sites ("channels") on your PDA or smartphone: news, weather, sports, stock quotes, maps, movie listings, and more.
All for FREE! Plus, it's easy to sign up and download the software. Even create your own personal channels to download family sites, local news, niche sites, church and club sites, workout schedules, etc… so you're always in touch, even on the go. No wireless connection is necessary. Just sync 'n go from your desktop. If you do have a wireless or Wi-Fi hotspot service, use it around town for updates. Getting great websites couldn't be easier!
Docs to Go http://www.dataviz.com/downloads/demo/index.html Allows you to work on Word and excel documents as well as view power point presentations.
Walking reminder: http://www.badcircle.com/sarahwww/ Remember who you need to get back in touch with and why.
Big money: http://www.astraware.com/palm/action/bigmoney/?skucode=0039-000-0019 Big Money is the crazy game of coin collecting fun, so grab all the coins you can and fill up those moneybags!
Book worm: http://www.astraware.com/palm/word/bookworm/?skucode=0058-000-0026 Feed Lex the Worm's endless appetite by joining letters on the library wall! Use up burning letters before they reach the bottom and set the library on fire! A superb word game for beginners and experts alike and a great way to increase your word power!
Dynomite: http://www.astraware.com/palm/featured/dynomite/?skucode=0052-000-0005 Get prehistoric with this dino egg-citing game! Dynomite! Launch dino eggs to solve the puzzle, but watch out for Mama brontosaurus! This new Palm game is a spectacular action puzzler for everyone!
Mars Needs Cows: http://www.astraware.com/palm/puzzle/mnc/?skucode=0025-000-0013 Stretch your brain muscle in a series of increasingly challenging puzzles in Mars Needs Cows, as you maneuver stupid earth animals into the middle of a field so that you can beam them to your ship!
Noah’s Ark: http://www.astraware.com/palm/puzzle/noahsark/?skucode=0026-000-0067 The Ark is built, it has just started raining, and there are still hundreds of animals to bring in! Noah's Ark. Tap to match pairs of animals in the confusion, to bring them to the Ark and save them from the rising flood water.
Big fish little fish: http://education.mit.edu/pda/ifish.htm Players in this game are either a school of big fish or little fish. Big fish need to eat little fish to survive and little fish need to avoid big fish to survive. The interface is very simple. After entering your name on the starting screen (see the general instructions page), wait for the whole group to be ready to start. You will note on the starting screen that you are told whether you are a big fish or a little fish, both in words and with a picture. When the game begins the screen will tell you how many fish are in your school. If you are a big fish you will have an Eat button that you use to eat schools of little fish. Both big fish and little fish have graphs of their population size over time, and a data button that they can use to look in more detail at their populations
Discussion: http://education.mit.edu/pda/idiscussion.htm Players in this game are told to consider a statement, and decide what they think about that statement. You then discuss your thoughts with other people and track your opinion and rationale over time. Start the game by entering your name in the start screen (see the general instructions page). When the game begins you will find a statement on the screen. Consider how you feel about that statement. Do you agree or disagree? Choose a value for your opinion by adjusting the slider appropriately. Then type a brief rationale at the bottom (remember you can bring up a keyboard to type by clicking on the ABC towards the lower left of your Palm).
Genetics- http://education.mit.edu/pda/igenetics.htm Players in this game are told to live as long as possible and reproduce. Your ability to survive and reproduce is influenced by your genome so figuring out what the genes stand for is critical in survival. Start the game by entering your name in the start screen (see the general instructions page). It is critical that everyone start the game at the same time, so after entering your name, wait for the rest of the class to start. When the game starts you'll see that you have a sequence of five genes (by default). Each of the genes stands for a trait. The shading of the genes (solid, striped and clear) somehow stands for homozygous recessive, homozygous dominant and heterozygous at that position. Your current age (which will constant increase), generation, and total score are also displayed.
Prisoner: http://education.mit.edu/pda/icooperation.htm This game is based on the problem of the Prisoner's Dilemma. You have the choice of cooperating with their partners or defecting against them. Depending on what both you and your partner do, the payoffs are different. In the standard game, the payoffs are as follows:
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Defect |
Cooperate |
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Defect |
1 |
5 |
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Cooperate |
0 |
3 |
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Virus: http://education.mit.edu/pda/ivirus.htm Players in this game are told to meet as many people as possible without getting sick. You can only meet each other player one time. The catch is that no one knows how you get sick. Start the game by entering your name in the start screen (see the general instructions page). It is critical that everyone start the game at the same time, so after entering your name, wait for the rest of the class to start. You can meet other players by lining up your Palms and having ONE player hit the Meet button (one person is the sender and the other is the receiver). The machine will keep track of your meetings (make sure everyone enters a unique name), and the number of meetings.? Only the initial meeting with a person counts. At any point in time if you don't want other people to meet you, you can press the READY button, which will toggle to say LOCKED. In this mode you can neither send or receive meetings.
Sugar and Spice: http://education.mit.edu/pda/isugar.htm This game is loosely based upon Sugarscape, as described in Epstein and Axtell's Growing Artificial Societies. All players in this game new two types of commodities to survive - sugar and spice. If a player ever runs out of either one of these, then they perish. The catch is that players are either inherently sugar producers (they eat spice and turn it into sugar) or spice producers (they eat sugar and turn it into spice). When the game begins players must determine which type they are by observing their meters that indicate their current provisions.
Teal Magnify: http://www.tealpoint.com/softlens.htm From Teal Point, Teal Magnify is an internal magnifier $11. To use it, toggle the magnifier on/off via the “find” button
Set Auto Power Off http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/setautopoweroffgold.shtml allows the Palm to stay on for longer periods of time before automatically shutting off. Set it for 5 minutes, 15, an hour or even “Never”.
Diddlebug http://diddlebug.sourceforge.net/ Diddlebug allows you to handwrite a note with an alarm and beam it to another handheld.
Speak http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/speak.shtml Speak uses text-to-speech technology so that students can listen to their memos and other documents. Once text is highlighted, the user has to press a button to get the text to read out loud.
KidzCalc $5
http://www.toysoft.ca/kidzcalc.html A simple talking calculator for the Palm
Tungsten. Numbers are read in plain English. The result of an expression will be
read in plain english also. For example if you have 2 * 10 - 7 KidzTalk™-Calc
will say thirteen in english.
KidzTalk™-Calc is a great tool to teach your kids on math and its also fun for
everyone.
AardMemo Pad/spellchecker: http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/palm/index.htm will let you know what words are misspelled in Memo Pad
Lexi http://lexi.agrino.org Create your own flash cards for studying
Dicmake http://www.freewarepalm.com/educational/dicmake.shtml Create your own electronic vocabulary notebook by creating your own dictionary. Add your own words and definitions including adding an example of that word in a sentence
Palm4Kids: http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk/ This is an application in which your children can get familiar with the basic math operations. Also, it lets your children make drawings in full color while waiting for the train, at the airport, in the car, etc.
Doctor DB: http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk/ A medical database that helps keep track of Physicians, Appointments, Medicines, allergies, etc
Homework Assistant: http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk/ Keeps track of homework assignments for each subject, their due dates, reminders, etc
Time Investment: http://www.rodrigosoftware.tk Calculates how much time is spent doing an activity. You have to select the time the activity started and the time it ended-it figures out how long you spent on a task (in minutes)…
Geney: Biologists need your help. They want to know how a particular species of fish evolved. They have given you a pond to store some fish and you can move them to other ponds or marry them with other fish in your pond. Once in a while, a Pond Inspector will visit your pond and check on how things are going. Use your knowledge of genetics to be the first one to arrive at the species that the biologists are looking for.
Moon Phase
Shows the
phase of the moon for any given date. Even display a picture of the moon.
What if builder: http://www.kidsolve.com/products/palm/wib/ The What-If Builder is a tool that enables students to create decision-tree models, also known as "Action Mazes," "tree literature," "plot branching" or "choose your own adventure. A model consists of short sections of narrative, each ending with a choice for the reader that determines what happens next and thus which section of narrative the reader is presented with next
Book Share http://www.freewarepalm.com/docs/bookshare.shtml BookShare allows groups of people to collaboratively create and edit shared documents called Books. A book has a bunch of pages like memos. Two people can synchronize their books by holding their handhelds close together and BeamSyncing them (like Beaming). All changes anyone made to the book are integrated and spread to everyone else who has the same book!!! It's like magic! Everyone gets to contribute in creating new books and editing existing books to keep them up to date.
City Zen: http://www.freewarepalm.com/travel/cityzen.shtml CITYZEN is a combination of a world map and a database of country, city, lake and ocean names. You can zoom in and out, move around the map and measure distances using the pen. is designed to help answer questions like `where is Easter Island?', `what is the capital of Nepal?' and `how far is it from New York to York?'. It also has a quiz facility, and can test you on topics such as `capitals of the world', `countries of Europe', `cities in Brazil'.
Solar Wars: http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/SpaceTrader-2000-10-11-palm-pc.html Space Trader is a complex game, in which the player's aim is to amass enough money to be able to buy a moon to retire to. The player starts out with a small space ship, armed with one simple laser, and 1000 credits in cash. The safest and easiest way to earn money is to trade goods between neighbouring solar systems. If the player chooses the goods to trade wisely, it isn't too difficult to sell goods with a profit. There are other ways to get rich, though. You might become a bounty hunter and hunt down pirates. It is also possible to become a pirate yourself and rob honest traders of their cargo. Beware, though: pirating is a way to get rich quickly, but the police force will go after you.
Day Trader: http://www.tucows.com/preview/74085 The object of DayTrader is to make the most money in the shortest amount of time on an imaginary stock market
Inflation master: http://www.palmblvd.com/software/pc/Inflationmaster-2002-3-11-palm-pc.html InflationMaster(tm) quickly answers questions like, "Babe Ruth¿s salary was $75,000 in 1930. How much is that today?" or "I can''t believe how much soda costs these days, do you know what I paid for it when I was a kid?" and "My parents paid $25,000 for their new house in 1959, did they get a deal?" InflationMaster quickly calculates the precise effects of inflation for any years from 1913 through 2002 (2002 based on official estimates).
Steps: http://www.badcircle.com/sarahwww/ A discipline tracker for teachers
Alphabet Rhyme Time: http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/Alphabet-Rhyme-Time/3000-2360_2-9677606.html Alphabet Rhyme Time is a captivating program for teaching the alphabet to young children, using familiar music, entertaining graphics, and an original poem. It teaches both the upper and lower case letters as well as 26 objects (and animals). Simply press the down arrow key to move to the next letter
WordDraw: http://www.rjen.com/Pilot/WordDraw.html WordDraw is an educational program for the PalmPilot that uses animated graphics to teach children how to read, write, and spell words.
http://198.236.51.14/nwhp/results.php website has a list of applications