Handheld Instructional Technology

PalmOne Education Store

palmOne™ has launched its Education Individual Store. This store offers educators, school board members, and other education community members 10% discounts on palmOne handhelds. You probably can find better deals out there than 10% off, but it’s nice of palmOne to offer educators a discount. In fact, they offer a 25% discount on palmOne branded accessories. For example, can save $32 on a Wi-Fi card, $53 on a GPS unit, and $18 on a wireless keyboard.

palmOne continues its Education Purchase Program. When your school buys 30 handhelds, palmOne will send you three free. Buy 100 and get 12 free. Buy 500 and you get 72 free handhelds! You don’t even have to buy them from palmOne—just send in the receipt from your school’s regular computer dealer. In fact, if your institution has purchased at least 30 palmOne handhelds within the last 60 days, you can still take advantage of this offer!

Note to future self- Teaching with aggregated tags?

How can aggregated tags be used in teaching? Can this only be used by Technorati? Interesting things to play with in the future

Link: Joho the Blog: Technorati finds related tags.

At the beginning of next week, Technorati will launch a new tag aggregation feature: When you search on a tag, you'll be shown a list of "related" tags. The relationships are automatically discerned by the software, analyzing the other tags used by people tagging the same set of pages and photos. Dave Sifry let me play with a beta of it, and the suggested tags were generally quite relevant.

There are two types of relationships the "related" tags help with. First, they suggest slightly divergent topics so you can browse off the path you were heading down. Second, they help get over the problem that people use different words to flag the same ideas; the "related" tags can help you find more sources that are directly on the path you were heading down. So they help with both digression and focus.