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Learning in Hand
Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand site is a great all round resource for lesson plans,
software for mobile devices, podcasting and articles to help you get started enhancing
learning outside the classroom.
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West Point Bridge Designer
Get together a team and experiment at home building and simulating bridges to compete in
the national West Point Bridge Design Contest. Can you use real bridges near you for
inspiration?
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Learning With Handhelds
The Intel learning with handhelds pages provide a short, helpful introduction to
understand some of the potential of learning with handhelds as well as several lesson
plans to adapt and try out with your students.
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Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
Students go on a field trip and learn to triangulate using a map and compass.
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Learning @ Hand
From the learningathand site here's a selection of middle school and elementary lesson
plans that use handheld software to provide students with new ways of learning.
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Wind Power
Students build anemometer and test them outside.
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Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
After making the oven, students will take periodic temperature measurements and plot a temperature versus time graph. Then they will attempt to actually bake something!
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Palm Source
A selection of resources for Palm handhelds to help keep track of class lists, grading,
attendance, homework and create lesson plans. The page also includes links to a number of
additional resources of different types.
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Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car
Students build solar cars and test them outside.
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A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
Tour sites, creative marvels and activities near you that show how engineers have created
the world around us by turning ideas into reality.
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Build a Birdhouse
Students learn the specific requirements of the bird of their choice, and then build houses for them based on that information.
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"Learning Everywhere" Selected Resources for Higher Education
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Engineers for a Sustainable World
Get involved to help reduce poverty and improve global sustainability in developing
communities across the world.
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Engineers Without Borders
Practice engineering and build relationships in developing communities developing
environmentally sustainable, equitable, and economical engineering projects.
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Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning
For a thorough review of the issues surrounding mobile education and technology and a
view of the possible futures that it affords look no further than this article by
Futurelab.
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e-Learning Centre: Podcasting in Education
Want to understand the hype surrounding podcasting in education? Find out what podcasting
is, how to do it, and where it's been successfully applied in education with this useful
reference.
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A walk on the WILD side
Read the canonical paper about Wireless Internet Learning Devices.
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