my PDA eWorld

Receiving new technology to play with is always exciting.
Yet, we need to remember that PDA's will need to be resold. Keeping this in mind it is critical to keep boxes and used components like the power adapters along with manuals in safe keeping.
Once un boxed and serials are recorded, a smart tip is to label each PDA with its own identity. At BPS we chose cartoon characters. So, students are assigned a PDA character and have a sense of personalised ownership in caring for the PDA. Each different class that uses the PDA's is processed similarly, so at the end of the process we know that Donald Duck PDA is only ever used by Jim, Ahmed, Kylie and James.
After issuing identities, setting the PDA settings with owner info, date time and menus is a valuable intro into using the stylus and text pad.
On completion of the above students are encouraged to explore and investigate what the PDA can do. Generally, the voice recording feature and Bubble game are the big hits.
Simple activities like:

• Open Word Mobile > touchpad keyboard typing > transcriber typing
• OK, to demonstrate ROM saving
• Rename and delete files technique
• Open Excel Mobile >enter data > make a graph
• Open Power point viewer
• Navigating with File Explorer
• Voice recording
• Using notes > voice recording in Notes > handwrite in Notes > draw in notes
• Media Player > full screen
• Picture and Video viewer

Keeping the screen clean is always a challenge. The simplest method is to breathe (hot breath) on the screen and gently wipe it with a soft cloth (inside if jumper or clean handkerchief.)

Be brave >>> explore and share

To finish off we played Bubble Breaker Bump, and the current champion at BNPS is Adrian with a score of 642. Well done.