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.