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I have a smart phone that runs the palm software. Do any of you know how I can use this tool in the classroom? Are there programs that I can download to keep track of my students' progress? I would love to record the results of my reading and writing conferences with my students and be able to track how the students are progressing. Ideally, I could check off boxes of a rubric and have a place for observational notes. I could then sync it to my desktop and aggregate the information to see class-wide trends. Thanks in advance for your help.

Check out Handbase for Palm O/S.  Handbase is a powerful database application for Palm powered PDAs.  It is not free, but is one of the best applications you can get for a Palm PDA.  Another plus is that they have a gallery of hundreds of user created databases on their website to use with Handbase.