| PDA ~ Personal Digital Assistants
Students and professors are learning to communicate in new and interesting
ways at Wake Forest University using their IPAQ Pocket PCs. Software programmers
at the school are creating programs so that students can interact during
class with the professor. To begin with, the professor’s PDA functions
as a web server. When students enter class, a series of questions pop
up on each of their Pocket PCs. The answers to these questions are accumulated
in a database and sent to the professor in a graph format. The professor
can then decide on what topics the class needs to focus that day by what
answers the students gave on the quiz. Students can instant message with
the professor about questions or comments on the class. Professors are
also using another program entitled Pocket Classroom to control PowerPoint
presentations given from a laptop or pc through their PocketPCs. This
allows the professor the freedom to move around the classroom instead
of staying tied to their laptop or pc. The software is available for free
to download for educational purposes. More info can be found by following
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