I recently came across a tool called Webnote that I think has some great potential for teaching and learning! Virtual notes on the web are going to be my lifesaver for having access to my To Do List any time I have internet access. Visit my webnotes! But as always I am looking for efriendlylearning tools to create learning activities that incorporate meaningful dialogue and writing about learning. Educators, using webnotes is easy. It is time to develop the connections...Here are some topics to get you started!

How can webnotes be used in Professional Development?
How could teachers use web notes for instructional management?
How could administrators distribute information using webnotes?
What can students do with web notes?
How can students using webnotes for writing about learning?
How can webnotes encourage meaningful dialogue about content?

Look for use of this tool in one of my presentations on technology tools for learning! Send me your ideas and I can credit you as the author!

Using handhelds for learning is gaining interest across the nation as technology budgets are slimming down. Teachers looking for student learning activities with handhelds can find over 300 lesson plans that were created by fifth and ninth grade science and social science teachers focusing on embedding reading strategies in content area learning.

More lesson plans can be found at Knox County Schools Handheld Project, some secondary lesson plans from a project at Arkansas State University and from Tony Vincent's graduate class.

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I came across a Palm OS handheld app the other day that is useful for teachers AND students. The software is called Lesson Plan by Tapperware. Teachers can use this as an instructional management tool to keep track of lesson plans and students could "makeover" the app as a student management tool for tracking assignments. While there is a cost to the commercial version, the trial version allows 20 database entries.

Lesson Plan as an Instructional Management tool:
The software allows all the features of traditional lesson planning software, but everything can be done on the handheld!

Lesson Plan as a Student Management tool:
I know there are other "free" software apps for students to track their assignments but the feature I like about Lesson Plan that helps the struggling learner is its ability to insert a template, where the student only has to enter the data for the specific assignment page numbers, etc. All the heavy text entry can be done through the insert command with a pre-designed template. The only thing better would be a beam command! See what you think...test Lesson Plan with your struggling learners and those would benefit from a little more ease when organizing!