How do you use iPods in class?

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Permalink Reply by Tamra Lanning on January 20, 2009 at 7:42am

I wondered about this myself. We have a preschool teacher at our school who purchased iPods for her classroom. She downloads audiobooks on hers for a listening center. Her preschoolers are able to find the story they want by looking for the book cover on the iPod. I was very impressed.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Skura on January 20, 2009 at 10:51am

Thanks for the idea!

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Permalink Reply by Bradley Morgan on January 20, 2009 at 11:56am

It will depend on the model of ipod. In general you can download lectures, special recordings, etc. With a model that handles video you can also create videos for download. If the students have ipods, using a constructivist approach, then one would expect them to create content based on your curriculum and share their creations with other students.

The iPod Touch is very interesting. It has most of the iPhone features without the cell phone. You now have a wifi enabled, portable computer. This allows you to begin thinking about Ubiquitous or 1:1 computing in the classroom. You could use all of the wonderful Web 2.0 resources, and deliver content as well as take polls, etc. I would be interested in where you decide to go with ipods and the grant.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Skura on January 20, 2009 at 2:21pm

These are both great ideas! I love my iTouch, but it cannot do voice memos. Do you know if I am doing something wrong or does it not have the capibility?

Thanks for the suggestions! I post what we decide. It will not be for a while b/c grants are not due until April.

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Wiebe on February 11, 2009 at 11:27am

Talked to an Apple guy about this. He said:

Go to iTunes app store and find the italk recorder (griffin technology) for recording on an ipod touch.

To do the actual recording, you can use headphones from Apple for the iPhone because it has a built-in mic (for use on the iphone). He also said the Belkin stereo ipod mic also works to record.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Skura on February 11, 2009 at 12:15pm

Thanks for the info. I'll check it out!

Jeremy

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Permalink Reply by Dorethia(Dotty) Myers on July 18, 2009 at 8:50pm

You need a small microphone.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Skura on June 3, 2009 at 3:33am

We received our grant! 30 iTouches.

I'll be back in the fall to let you know how they're going!

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Permalink Reply by Tom Liam Lynch on January 20, 2009 at 12:00pm

I've used iPods in my class, though I had to call them "focusing devices" to sidestep the NYC DoE's ban on them. Mostly, I let students use them in my classroom when they were researching and writing. For writing, especially, it seemed to be just what some students needed to remain focused. That having been said, a colleague did complain that I was making enforcing the iPod ban difficult, and I was asked to stop. Nevertheless, I think that using iPods for basic focus can go a long way.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Skura on January 20, 2009 at 2:21pm

Do the students do anything other than "focus" with them?

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Permalink Reply by Tom Liam Lynch on January 20, 2009 at 6:24pm

I've also used iPods as ways to have students share and critique work. So, rather than just write an essay and peer review it--a practice which is often a bit too quick to be wishy washy--students can record their writing and share it digitally with others. Then, peers can write short, terse critiques and record them. This also works well when experimenting with musical responses to literature. I wrote about work my students did with recording raps in response to Chaucer in an English Journal article not too long ago. You can find it at: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v96-6

Hope it helps. So glad the conversation is being had!
T

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Permalink Reply by Dorethia(Dotty) Myers on July 18, 2009 at 8:52pm

You can get around that ban if the students are in special ed. If you wirtie it into the IEP that they can use their IPOD if avaliable. After all, it is assistive technology. You might also want to draw up some kind of contract with rules. CYA

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