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Think Handhelds

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Small World, Isn't It?

Handheld Devices in the Classroom

Why Use Handhelds?

Accessibility

Immediacy

Convergence

Permanency

Malleability

Simplicity

Pleasurability

Collaboration

Invisibility

Why Handheld-Friendly Websites?

Today’s students are growing up in an age where smaller is perceived to be better.

Cellular phones, Smartphones, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s), mp3 players and iPods are as common as the family car.

The increased availability of wi-fi, Bluetooth and GPRS connections, through both free and subscription services has caused a boom in wireless Internet use.

Many websites are being created to accommodate smaller screen sizes and provide any easy-to-view interface.

What is WAP?

Wireless Application Protocol or WAP is an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication. Its principal application is to enable access to the internet from a mobile phone or PDA.

Mobile internet sites, or WAP sites, are websites written in, or dynamically converted to, WML (Wireless Markup Language) and accessed via the WAP browser.

Let’s Compare

Large Screen Small Screen

Accuweather

Accuweather Wireless

American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History Handheld

Google

Google Mobile

My Wildflowers

My Wildflowers Mobile

Wikipedia

Wapedia for Mobile Devices

Yahoo!

Yahoo Mobile

Flickr

Flickr Mobile Site

“text only”

London Zoo

London Zoo text only

BBC Science & Nature

BBC Science & Nature text only

Microbrowsers

Skweezer- no download required

MobileLeap - no download required

AvantGo - download required

Opera Mobile & Opera Mini - download required

Plucker - download required

Minimo - download required

FlingIt - Software

Mobile browser rendering

Top 10 Mobile Sites

(Telephia Mobile Internet Report)

Yahoo Mail

The Weather Channel

ESPN

Google Search

Hotmail

Mapquest

AOL Mail

CNN

Yahoo Weather

Yahoo Search

Yahoo Driving Directions

Student Activities

Have General discussion on the future effects of the internet . Demonstration of mobile phone internet access.
Create cell phone projects with pictures page using Flickr Mobile Site.
Visual Story Telling
Filamentality Hotlists viewed on handheld device.
E-mail Projects
m-Blogging
SMS Quizzes
Daily Weather Records - Middle School

Students keep a record of local weather conditions using Y!Weather. Students will use this information to create graphs on paper to illustrate the changes in daily temperature.