Handheld computers in schools and media centers

Using handheld devices to meet national and state standards

Standards for the English language arts

The national education technology plan

The national educational technology standards for students (NETS-S)

The national educational technology standards for teachers (NETS-T)

The educational technology standards for administrators

Information literacy standards

Summary and challenge

Selecting hardware for ebooks, eaudio, evideo, and podcasting

Types of handheld devices

Selection consideration factors

Peripherals

Summary and challenge

Selecting software for the handheld device

Synchronizing handheld computers to desktop or laptop computers

Document preparation software

Printing from handheld devices

Standards for digital media

Audio standards for digital talking books

Ebook readers for handheld devices

Media players for handheld devices

Subject specific software

Summary and challenge

Locating and downloading online ebooks

History of ebooks

Hazards of ebooks

Educational advantages for ebooks

Transferring ebooks from desktop to handheld devices

Ebook formats

Sources for ebooks

College and university electronic book collections

Ebooks for people with disabilities

Specialized ebook search engines

Summary and challenge

Accessing Web sites on handheld computers

Mobile browsing

Using mobile favorites

Web clipping software

Avantgo

Streaming digital media via the Web from a desktop to a handheld device

Summary and challenge

Writing ebooks and notes

Curricular uses of student produced ebooks

Ebook writers

Creating ebooks for the iPod

Summary and challenge

Circulating ebooks and eaudiobooks

Distributing applications and documents

Advantages of circulating digital media in school libraries

Locating ebook managing sources

Creating and managing an eaudio library

Creating a school elibrary

Summary and challenge

Utilizing and preparing eaudio

Educational value of audiobooks

Selecting audiobooks

Audiobook industry

Sources of audiobooks

Ripping audiobooks

Direct audio on a handheld device

Converting text to audiobooks

Learning foreign languages

For the disabled

Online radio

Summary and challenge

Utilizing and preparing podcasts

What is podcasting?

History of podcasting

Educational uses of podcasts

Legal and copyright issues in podcasting

Hardware needed to listen and produce a podcast

Software needed to listen and produce a podcast

Locating and listening to podcasts

Recording a podcast

Hosting and publishing a podcast

Summary and challenge

Locating and downloading evideos and vodcasts

History of vodcasts

Sources for educational evideos and vodcasts

Selecting software and media players for video playback

Converting video formats to play on a handheld device

Shooting video for the micro screen

Preparing a vodcast

Summary and challenge

Digital media copyright issues

Fair use guidelines

Berne convention

Visual artists rights act

Fair use guidelines for educational multimedia

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Digital performance rights in sound recordings act

Teach act

Software downloading regulations

Summary and challenge

Incorporating ebooks, eaudio, evideo, and podcasts into the curriculum

Collaboration

Teacher-produced assignments

Reading strategies with ebooks

Cross-curricular uses of ebooks

Ebooks in language arts

Ebooks in foreign languages

Ebooks in science curriculum

Ebooks in social studies curriculum

Using eaudio within the curriculum

Mobile devices for students with special needs

Using evideo within the curriculum

Using podcasting within the curriculum

Summary and challenge

Record keeping with handheld devices

Inventory control

Schedule and appointment reminder

Track student progress

Recording and tabulating grades

Attendance tracker

Lesson planner

Student information systems (SIS)

Student organizational software

Managing classroom sets of handheld computers

Managing computer networks with handheld devices

Summary and challenge

Appendix A: Ebook, eaudio, and evideo formats

Sources consulted

Glossary

Index.