I-Pod+Assignment+1

http://www.schoolcio.com/ShowArticle/1014

This article is about the Orange County School district and how they have used the ipods in their classrooms, and how the students have been able to use them to learn in certain subject areas. The article did give some really great ideas. Anything from using the Nike + application to count how many calories their students burned in a day (to take the place of pedometers), to their elementary school students reading a part of a book and then recording what they thought the section of the book was about. They absolutely love using their ipods in their classes, and think that it is one of the best teaching tools that they have. They are fortunate enough that their school bought their student ipods and do not need to borrow any, and they only keep the applications on their ipods that they use in their classes and nothing extra to help keep the kids on track.

http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=16472&version=7723&page=2

This is a very useful article because it talks about the different applications that are very useful for teachers, and how they can use them in their classrooms. For example, the article talks about using the calendar application as a lesson plan organizer that you can use/modify while on the go. It is always accessible, and easy to modify. This article gives you 20 different ideas that you can use while integrating your ipod into your professional lives. It also gives other links/sites you can to go to get other ideas.

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This article tells us different ways a ipod could be used in a classroom. It gives the example of using slideshows for a history class, or being a language teacher and using your own pod-casts to teach the students proper diction/words to use in class. It also gave a great idea that if you were not going to be able to be in the classroom because you were going to be gone, you could create a pod-cast of yourself that the students could use in your absents. this article was a good quick read. I only wish it would have had some other ideas that I could apply in my classroom.

http://learninginhand.com/blog/tag/ipodtouch

This was a really good article about the "DO's and DON'TS" for an ipod touch. It talks about anything from syncing your ipod to other computers to different applications that you can use and how to apply them to your ipod in a useful way. It is also a really good source for the "DO's and DON'TS" for allowing studnets to use ipods in the classroom, and for having different rules about using ipods in a classroom setting. This article also gives links to other schools policies and ipod classroom rules to follow as guidelines. I think that this was a great article and very informational.

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This article again talks about the pro's to having an ipod in the classroom and the practicality of having them instead of purchasing some other form of technology. The author talks about how practical they are, and they take up way less space than a labtop would. Along with that he explains how much cheaper the ipods are, and with wireless internet you can almost do the same things as a labtop can do. this was a good quick read about the pro's and the practicality of an ipod touch in our classrooms.