Handheld computers in schools and media centers / Ann Bell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [121]-124) and index.

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.