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Hal’s Palm Website: mobile.ncsu.edu;
notes from this workshop at mobile.ncsu.edu/palmhandson.html
The Palm
is of a series of PETs: Productivity enhancement technology
Other examples include: cell phones, Gameboy
E3 started a few days ago, all videogame manufacturers show their new
stuff
New Gameboy with 2 color screens and wireless technology built in
Capabilities keep increasing
We have 8 year olds who have powerful wireless devices
We’ll
focus on using handheld this morning
To power up notice on right hand of keyboard little green stripe push
to turn on
Batteries need charging a couple times a week
Training the Palms digitizer
Choose an east coast city during setup to get time correct
Choose done before setting up WiFi
Click to the lower arrow and then scroll down
Pick an Eastern city for EST
Then choose if you are observing DST
Click with stylus on Next
Keyboard
basics
Talk about
keyboard and how it works
This is the only Palm with keyboard built in
Look at your keyboard carefully
It’s a normal keyboard layout
Keys are small and there are extra keys
Hold it so that you type with your thumbs
Your thumbs are going to become very enormous
On the lower left hand side is a blue key
Works like a function key
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Memo
Pad
Open memo
pad
Every palm ships with memo pad, so students will have if have older
or inexpensive model; Base level text entry on every Palm is Memo Pad
Let’s create new memo to ourselves
Click on new
Memo let’s you make short notes Start up Memo Pad
Click on menu it will bring that item up
Stylus acts a lot like a mouse; Use your stylus to highlight text
Type in
“really new” on keyboard
Backspace second row far right hand side
There’s a bar that says symbol, that’s your space bar
Next to it on left hand side you’ll see a caps lock key
If you click it once you’ll get caps lock engaged for one letter
If you press it twice it will lock
Push again to turn off
Press blue key twice to lock all keys to alternate mode
Will give you more characters; the @ symbol is under the (123)
$, #, &, and so on
Click on details we can assign categories to memos
We can use these categories with synchronizing with your desktop
Can click Delete to delete file; will still save an archived copy on
your PC
Push on Memo at top to see Record and other choices
Under Edit memo will see normal choices like other Note type applications
Cut, copy, paste
You’ll see an arrow symbol at bottom of screen; this is caps lock
3rd row right hand side there’s a return key to start a new line
Choose
New from Menu
Memo will always take first line of memo and make that the name
When I start typing it immediately capitalizes the first word of sentence
Select Keyboard
A keyboard appears onscreen, onscreen keyboard
Includes International and Symbol keys
Can use when you can’t remember how to make a character
If click (123) will see some of the symbols you need such as @
Click on upper right had corner on All
These are the categories
You can add more categories
When share memo with someone else, category will be created for other
person
In a Memo, click Memo Options Font to change font size
If I go
into my memo pad and I’m half done
And I turn palm off
Next time I turn it on it returns to same application where I was
We don’t have to save, when we close out it will be saved
When you
push shortcut button it will wait for you to push one more key for shortcut
Press shortcut key you will get a little pop up box
Press a letter to get command
Use stylus to click on Memo at top of screen to get menus
Pull down menus along the top such as file edit don’t show up
because screen is small
Menu is hidden until you click on top of screen
Look on menu items to see what the shortcuts are
Shortucut-N for New Memo
You will always have some shortcuts common across all applications
Shourtcut-N will always start a New something
Shortcut-K to get onscreen keyboard
Click
button on far right lower right hand looks like a house will take you
back Home
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Address
book entry
First
thing you should do is put your own information in Address
Address is an app that would be on different Palm models
Create address book entry
Click New
Make first entry for yourself
Don’t have to fill whole thing out right now
Can use onscreen keyboard to fill out
Can put
yellow sticky note next to information of person; Button for Note at
the bottom of screen;
When someone hands you a card you might write on back what you were
talking about
Note allows you to enter notes about person in Palm
Click
on Address at top of screen for several interesting item
One is called select business card
Select for your own name so that it will use it for your business card
Now you’ll get request
Make this name your business card?
You’ll have a new icon at top of screen
Now you can share this business card with other people
Quick
and easy way
Use your desktop palm application to put in addresses
Then synch and put into handheld
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Infrared
Technology
Every
palm has infrared built in way to share information over a short distance
with another user; Has amazing infrared technology
Select an address you want to send
Click on menu and choose Beam Address
Can beam your business card to colleagues
If push address button long enough, it will beam your business card
When beaming,
15 feet is about outer range; 5 feet is better
It is line of sight
Palms have to point at each other
Little window on top of palm is infrared port
Click on menu
Select beam business card
Receiver does not have to do anything
Just say yes you want to receive
Garmin makes a cool palm device with GPS built in
You could
Beam Memos to students also
It’s not very speedy
Would not want to send a digital movie through beaming
Beaming uses battery life so don’t use it as only way to get information
into Palm
If your
laptop has an infrared port, you can hotsynch without cradle if you
need to. This is slower and chews up battery time
Things
you should know about your handheld
Click
on home button, go back to main screen
Palm desktop is basically a launcher
Simplified GUI interface
You can have categories for your apps
Click on pull down in upper right hand corner
You are presented with categories but you can create more
You can make one with apps you use every day, call it something like
“My Favorites”
Click
on Prefs
You can customize how your Palm operates
This is your Preferences
Sound & alerts will be important to you in a conference
Can turn beeps and clicks off on your Palm
Can set to silent with vibrate
All off will save battery life
Digitizer is something you occasionally need to reset, if you find stylus
is dragging
Click on Power
Auto-off, stay on in cradle, beam receive
Personal buttons and color theme
5 buttons on very bottom of palm, one is a “joy button”
to scroll around
You can customize what buttons will launch
Original color scheme is high contrast, good for display
Click
on Owner
If click pull down in upper right hand corner can categorize applications
You can create your own categories
So can show all in Home or just your Main ones
Can set owner info for your handheld, it’s like a memo
Click Done when finished
Turn graffiti
handwriting on in Preferences
Graffiti lets use enter letters and numbers using a block alphabet
It is not handwriting recognition; you have to learn its alphabet
Almost all graffiti letters are done with a single stroke
Go back to Home screen again
Inside Memo there is grafitti help
Old software called Giraffe that will help you train
Click on Graffiti 2 in Prefs
Can tune for particular characters
Look at the Tips
Can modify letters for Graffiti; Customize way it will work for you
Click on writing area and click On
Make sure Show pen strokes is clicked
Students may be using graffiti as only way to enter information
Instructors should be familiar with it even though may not use much
Click
Home for main screen
Open a new memo
Go back to memo you were previously editing
I would like to delete a sentence
Take stylus and drag from left to right to highlight, write a backspace
From Home choose Prefs
Then you can choose Writing Area and work with strokes for graffiti
On palm screen is split in half, write letters on left hand side for
letters, right hand side for numbers
Can use a stylus from other companies, may need a fatter one, write
straight up and down, write big
You have possibility to scratch screen, keep screen very clean
May need to invest in plastic screen protector sheets, make sure there
are no air bubbles, makes screen feel a little more like paper
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Wireless
Networking
Go to
Home screen
Tungsten C has 802.11 wireless
Choose WiFi Setup from Home
Opens a Wizard to follow
Click Next on first screen
Now get a screen that will show available networks
Green bars indicate good signal strength
List will show all you have used
If someone gives you name of access point, they are not publishing it
You have to put info in yourself
From Select a Network, click Other (other allows you to enter name of
access point)
In some cases, conference or coffee shop, you need to know Network Name
(SSID) and sometimes a password
This is where you type it in
Choose Network, click Next,
You can go about 300 feet outdoors
Click Done
Now launch
a web browser
Choose button on bottom at very far right, has a globe on it
Can use menus to go the Web preferences
And can choose your home page under General
Use gwtv.ncsu.edu for access to Groupwise web mail
Click top menu and choose Options
Under preferences you can tell it not to load images so loading will
go faster
Should leave javascript checked
Max history, allows you to store content you previously looked at
Under Connecting, can choose Ask before connecting
WEP encryption,
don’t click that unless someone tells you that you have to use
it
Connect to screen, usually leave this alone
You could set this up so that handhelds can talk to each other without
an access point
You would choose peer-to-peer
Button on far right hand side is Web browser
Button with globe
Click
at top of Web browser
Click Options and Preferences
Can type in your preference for home page for browser
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Resetting
If palm
looks frozen what do you do?
Soft and hard resetting
It’s like Ctrl-alt-del; you won’t lose your data
Twist off cap off stylus for thin pointer
Left hand side towards bottom you will see a Reset hole
Use cap tool to push
Hard reset
– more extreme
It is reset back to factory defaults
Clear off and give to someone else.
Hold down power button
Flip over and use reset tool
Will ask if you want to reset all data
Don’t do this unless just absolutely necessary
If you’ve hotsynched recently, you can get your things back onto
your Palm
If palm
battery goes dead, you will lose everything you’ve added to palm
Keep it charged
How often do you have to charge your Palm, once or twice a week
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Hotsynching
Palm makes
a travel hot synch cradle, one model comes with a car adapter, the cable
that comes with it will charge your Palm off the USB
If your power supply says 100-220 Volts you only need to buy a little
plug adapter to use your equipment in foreign countries
To do
a hotsynch
You can attach cradle with USB to your computer
Palm desktop has to be loaded on your computer
Put palm in cradle
Push hotsynch button on the cradle
Addresses in your palm gets updated on your desktop
Documents in your palm get updated
Double click palm desktop on your computer desktop
Palm content is along left side
Click on palm photo
See images loaded in
Will take jpg and gif when dropped in here will load to your palm when
you synch
Don’t use this as your image database
(On Mac, use Send to handheld. Better to get Splash photo)
Once you add a document to your list, you can work on them and then
synch changes
Supports Voice Memo if you have a headset with a microphone
Click
on Documents to open Documents-to-Go
Add documents to list by clicking Add item
Once you set this up, don’t move documents around on your laptop
because Documents To Go will look for it in same place every time
Can put a 50 page PowerPoint in your palm, 20 mb. Probably want to make
a white version for carrying to class
Can edit your PowerPoint because you can see outline view under Slideshow
to Go
If you want to create a PowerPoint on your palm, it will only be a text
outline, can’t add images
PowerPoint you’ve already created you can synch and edit
Overview: View will let you see full size slide, need to turn graffiti
off
You can see whole slide, but it’s very condensed, you can zoom
in to read better
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Software
Options
Word to
Go
Can type stuff in
You can find and replace
No spell check but can zoom
Can get Wordsmith for more functional word processing
You can hyperlink inside Word to go
You can
get a software package called Presenter to Go which gives you better
looking PowerPoint’s (about $30 to buy)
Can’t edit the slides after you make them
Presenter to Go PowerPoint has much higher resolution than Documents-to-Go
Presenter to Go means you make PowerPoint on computer, run through Presenter
to Go to make into a .pdb file, then add to your Palm, crisp, high resolution,
larger screen space, can’t edit anymore, have to make tradeoffs
Margi Presenter To Go has a small remote control
If your
laptop has an infrared port, you can hotsynch without cradle if you
need to. This is slower and chews up battery time.
Need to
install Cds that came with Palm on the main computer you will use for
synching
Use install CD that comes with software, usually use default location
that installer suggests
You can buy a memory card and keep some files on your memory card
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Quick
Installer
Icon on
desktop for Quick Install
Separate application that allows you to install applications on your
handheld
Many palm apps come with their own installer
Tungsten C comes with Documents to Go
Extension is .pdb for palm database, some might end with prc
Add applications to Quick Install window to get them added
If software
doesn’t have an installer, double click the things you have downloaded
and you can add to Quick Install from Palm Desktop software
(Mac has palm Quick Install)
If you add memory expansion card to your handheld, you can tell palm
installer where to put stuff. Consider putting applications on the Palm
and documents on your expansion card.
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PowerPoint
Tufte,
E.R. (2003.) The cognitive style of PowerPoint. Cheshire, CN: Graphics
Press LLC
PowerPoint and its uses
Illustrated essay by Edgar Tufte
In tech circles there are lots of discussions of the ways technology
is structuring interaction
PowerPoint has a presentation style that structures communication
Tufte’s book has a case study of the space shuttle Columbia disaster
and NASA’s reliance on PowerPoint. Abstracted data so that it
wasn’t really accessible
Really rich meaningful information can become very decontextualized
We learn in relations of information
We don’t always learn in a series of 4 points with bullets
Tufte’s
point is that text is much higher resolution than PowerPoint
What would Gettysburg Address look like if Abraham Lincoln had used
PowerPoint to deliver it?
Redundant piece of paper helps you learn along with PowerPoint on screen
Don’t want to talk to your computer and point to it
Use of chart wizard to show data contained in “four score and
seven years ago”, relating data is so minimalist
How does PowerPoint structure interactions and show relations in data
PowerPoint makes assumptions, forces certain kinds of decision processes
on designer
Is there a constructivist use of PowerPoint?
PowerPoint
decontextualizes content, very minimalist environment
Technology might structure the way you teach
Dichotomy between understanding and philosophy of teaching and structure
of technology itself
Palm allows us multimode instructional means, you have book and we will
show PowerPoint on screen
Gettysburg cemetery dedication as a PowerPoint from www.norvig.com
PowerPoint has much lower resolution than text or other forms of communication;
PowerPoint takes it down to somewhat meaningless chunks
So abstract it makes no sense or way too much crammed on each slide
Chart wizard in PowerPoint to show “four score and seven years
ago”
How many
use PowerPoint in class and
Give handout pages printed to students
Give the PowerPoint to students to follow along on computers
Is PowerPoint like reading and not establishing relationships?
How do we learn best and can PowerPoint to be used to help learning?
Jeopardy board with PowerPoint makes it interactive
PowerPoint can be used to help people get involved in technology and
raise comfort level before moving on
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