Teacher Skills Ladder Categories & Task Items	Points
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Using Portable Handheld Computers & Probes
Turn on your PalmPilot and perform these basic operations: tap, type, use the alphabet & numeric keys and use the calculator. Navigate through various menus. Verification: None	1
Use your PalmPilot to generate a message, then beam the message to another PalmPilot. Upload this message data to your workstation computer via the HotSync button & cradle and then find the message on the hardrive. Complete Part A of the Digital Tools PalmPilot Task Sheet. Verification: None	3
Search the internet to find a useful new program for your PalmPilot. Dowload the program onto your computer workstation and then onto your PalmPilot. Use the new program and report your review to all other Digital Tools participants on the 'Discussion Corner' of our website. Verification: Your summary on the ‘Discussion Corner’ website	3
Use your PalmPilot and ImagiWorks interface to collect, beam and upload probe data to a computer. Complete Part B of the Digital Tools PalmPilot Task Sheet. Verification: Place a short discussion of your process on the website in the ‘Discussion Corner’.	4 (optional)
Create and implement lessons that will enable your students to use the PalmPilot & ImagiWorks interface to collect field data with probes, upload the data to a computer workstation and use the data in a place study. Verification: send an email attachment of the lesson to djtuck@home.com	4 (optional)
Create and implement lessons that will enable your students to use the PalmPilot in their place study investigations to gather, share, beam & upload data. Verification: send the lessons via email to djtuck@home.com	4
Important Note: It is important to share our activities with other participants and project staff. Most sharing will occur in one of two ways: 1) Send an image & short description of the task activity to davidt to be posted in 'News' and/or 2) post your thoughts on the 'Discussion Corner'.