Each year the Palm company publishes the Palm Education Solutions CD. Palm says, "On this CD, you will find many programs and resources that can help you and your students use Palm devices to expand and enrich the teaching and learning experience." You can locate almost everything on the 2006 Education Solutions CD somewhere on the Web (but it nice to have all of these resources in one place). Here are some of the highlights of this CD-ROM:

• Education Quick Guides for curriculum areas and Palm hardware.
• Handheld Educator pamphlets with information and lessons for handheld computing.
• Graffiti 2 Alphabet Tips.
• 7 page essay about the reasons for using handhelds in education.
• Information about the Palm Education Purchase Program.
• Education Snapshots and Success Stories.
• Extensive database of hardware and software solutions (sorted by category or company name).

There are dozens of free trial software titles on the CD like TextTwist, Inspiration, Size It Up, and applications from Robert Jen. Unfortunately, the CD contains very few free applications; its focus is clearly commercial software.

Click here to request up to 10 copies of the 2006 Palm Educational Solutions CD free of charge.