iPods Classroom Instruction

A rural Georgia school is using iPods to enhance education. More than 100 of the school's staff members use the digital music and video players as an education tool. This school is doing more than just downloading the class lectures to these iPods. One history teacher asks the students to download films to their devices so she can decrease the amount of unnecessary time in the classroom. They also use it as a way of catching up on missed classes. Here is the site http://ipod.gcsu.edu/zzzzMedia/Press_Articles/eSchoolNewsOnline001.pdf
Recent trends suggest that students have developed a fascination with iPods . The use of iPods allow teachers and students to create audio and video material. The combination of these two technologies has prompted a greater interest in learning than could have ever been expected. A school in Waco, TX is circulating iPods loaded with the course reserves for music classes. A music and fine arts librarian, notes that, "with the iPods, students can listen while walking between classes or at other times when being in the library or logged on to a computer would not be possible. Every iPod (40GB 4GL models) has all of the audio reserves for all of the music classes for the entire semester..."