Pedagogy & IT Practice
Wake Forest experiments with providing Pocket PC phones to students as the all-encompassing communication and application tool.
Wake Forest University is well-known for technological innovation. In the mid-1990s, the university pioneered a program to distribute IBM ThinkPads to all students.
More recently, it tested the use of Pocket PCs for pedagogical, student-life and administrative applications. This year, in a set of pilots called MobileU, the university is evaluating the effectiveness of Pocket PC phones, devices that double as a cell phone and a personal digital assistant (PDA).
Administrators and academicians hope the phone function will encourage more students to carry and use the Pocket PCs.
