Treo Followup
The other day Jason posted about the Palm Treo. Today, the reference librarians and instructional technologists talked about viewing websites on mobile devices. It was a pretty interesting conversation that prompted me to talk Jason into borrowing his Treo for the afternoon to take experiment with it. Susan and I spent a few minutes kicking around the Angel Learning Management System course site, google maps, and a few other things on it. Text based pages seem to work best but that seems obvious.
I am hooked and can see application of use in daily work life.
How nice would it be to have the ability to take notes in a format that I will actually reuse right in my pocket.
Or to be able to grab the resource from the web as I have an impromptu meeting on Brooks walk.
Or to be able to check my schedule and email without having to return to my office.
Or to be able attend a conference without having to lug my tablet.
Comments
Maybe the group looking at help desk problem logging should keep mobile devices in mind. It would be handy to be able to pull up info about a problem (or enter a new one) from a small device while working on a disabled computer.
Posted by: Susan | December 7, 2006 4:14 PM
I just downloaded software that you can install on your laptop to make your Palm Treo either a USB or bluetooth modem. It's at dialup speeds, but pretty impressive for people who want to use their laptop anywhere. (Or anywhere within range of a cell tower.) I am such a geek.
Posted by: Jason | December 19, 2006 3:23 PM