Shannon County Schools

Participants: Brian Wechsler, Computer Teacher; Judy White, Classroom Teacher, Anne Briggs, Coordinator and webpage developer

Shannon County began the pilot project in the school district as part of a project with TIE. Using district technology funds, a lab of handhelds was purchased for a classroom of 23 6th grade students and one classroom teacher, as well as the computer teacher.

The students are using the handhelds to create timelines, keep journals, and create animations to help with fractions, to do character mapping, to name a few activities. As well as using the handhelds for these activities, the students also use the dictionary and thesaurus, and the calculator on the handhelds.