Seventy students
from Brooks, St. Patrick, Mueller, Hadley, Northeast Magnet and their
teachers attended Mentor Day at the WSU Metroplex and participated in
a variety of activities related to wireless technology. Participants
rotated from activity to activity. Over lunch, Project M3 mentors
shared their experiences with being a mentor to their teachers. Project M3
staff and mentors planned and supervised activities and
presentations.
Guest
presenters: Corey Carson, Apple Computer and David Engelhart, Avaya
Activities:
Tune
Masters
Easily create
professional quality music on your computer by using up to 16 sounds or by
importing your own AIFF music files. Then, combine individual sound
elements such as changing the volume, pitch, panning of each sound and the
tempo of the entire mix. Share your finished songs by exporting to MP3 or
AIFF, putting them on the Web, or making your own CDs.
Groovin'
Through History
Use AOL
Instant Messenger and a wireless laptop to identify a famous person. It
may be a movie star who just won an Oscar, the first President of the
United States, or the person who invented electricity. AIM will let you
communicate with the "person" in real time and ask questions
that will help you narrow down his/her identify. You can only ask
questions that can be answered with YES or NO.
Beam Me Up!
Mystify and
astound your friends! Use a personal digital assistant (PDA) to share
files and store data. Use the memo pad to pass notes to your friends,
organize your busy calendar, and keep records of your friends' phone
numbers and email. We will beam applications and files between HandSprings
to demonstrate how a computer virus is spread from one handheld to
another. Then we will share clues to solve a mystery.
Groovin'
Online
Groove is a
collaborative, Web delivered workspace where multiple people can meet
on-line, use instant messaging, synchronized Web browsing, and
peer-to-peer file sharing. Other tools and games available are a shared
drawing space, tic-tac-tope, chess, photo album, calendar and much more.
Groove also supports voice chat. If your computer has a microphone you can
chat live without typing!
