I have put together a spreadsheet that I use with my KS4 students, which shows all sorts of data about their work. Initially, this was a fairly static document, updated every month or so, when I collected all the folders in for marking - obviously this was not something that we used much.
As part of the project, I wanted the students to be able to check (as a minimum) at the beginning of their lesson what work they had to do, and so I needed some way of allowing their work to be marked "on the hoof".
The spreadsheet took some time to set up (ir calculates grade boundaries, tasks to do based on target grades, shows completed, incomplete and target tasks etc.). In order to use this I needed something lighter than my paving slab of a laptop.
A lot of the affordable PDAs have limited screen space - the best that I could find were the Dell 51 and the fujitsu Siemens loox n560. Of the 2, the loox was cheaper, but still had a (for a PDA!) large screen.
The setup at the moment is as follows:
The PDA goes everywhere with me in the classroom now. Whenever A student asks me to review their work, I can assess it there and then. The PDA syncs with my desktop, which then syncs to the shared files (I don't have wireless in the classroom at the moment).
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