Assignment+1

Here are some of the articles I found. I hope you find them helpful.  

"100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better." __Online Education Database.__ 26 Jun. 2008. < http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/100-ways-to-use-your-ipod-to-learn-and-study-better >. This interesting site provides 100 links for using an iPod “to learn and study better.” Included links are categorized into study guides, podcasts and more, tutorials, applications, more downloads, classroom help, iPod learning support, tools and sites, iPod U, and miscellaneous. 

Bontempi, Elaine. “Podcasts & Vodcasts: Educational Applications.” __University of Oklahoma__. 2006. 26 Jun. 2008. < [|http://casweb.ou.edu/olr/public/instructors/bestpractices/podcast_vodcast.ppt] >. This PowerPoint presentation might be a good place to start as one develops a rationale for implementing podcasting in the classroom. The included links, however, are fraught with problems. 

“Can You Spell i-P-o-d?” __Rockingham County Public Schools__. N.d. 26 June 2008. . Elementary EES teachers in this Virginia school district put grant funds to use as they use iPods to help their students’ language acquisition skills. This is an interesting article, but the district’s motto—when it comes to learning, we click!—puts a smile on my face. How nice it must be to be part of such a forward-thinking district! 

Craven, Robert E. M. “Oral Histories.” __iPod in Education__. 2005. 26 Jun. 2008. . This lesson plan utilizes iPods with voice recorders, and digital cameras in collecting family data to be integrated into a movie using iMovie. The object is for the student to investigate what it means to be an American in today’s society and to connect him directly to his family’s past. 

GCSU iPod Story, The.” __Georgia State Colleges and Universities__. 2006. 26 Jun 2008. <http://ipod.gcsu.edu/GCSU%20iPod%20Story/index.html>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The George State Colleges and Universities system has a group known as the iDreamers, a group of “innovative and creative faculty and staff” that has really picked up the technology ball and run with it in terms of podcasting initiatives. This sites offers a look into what GSCU is doing and a history of podcasting in post-secondary classrooms.

"iPod @ EDU." __Edith Cowen University__. 17 Dec. 2007. 26 Jun. 2008. <http://isp.edu.eduau/ipod/index.html>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">This site from Australia appears to be a clearing house for all sorts of iPod technology information. Included in the site is a link to a discipline-by-discipline listing of the many different ways iPods can be used in the classroom. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">

"iPod Touch in Education." __DigMo!.__ 9 Sep. 2007. 26 Jun. 2008. <http://www.digmo.co.uk/ipod/ipod-touch-and-education/>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">A UK site for film, music, and technology, DigMo! offers this post of using an iPod Touch in a classroom. From taking attendance to notes about students to film and music offerings in class, this writer appears to really use his iPod in more ways than the obvious. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">

Metz, Dave, and Wrenn, Elaine. “iPod Reporters.” __iPod in Education__. 2005. 26 Jun. 2008. <http://images.apple.com/au/education/ipod/pdf/iPod_Reporters.pdf>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Another lesson plan available through Apple, this one utilizes iPods with voice recorders and digital cameras to aid them as they learn about newspapers, their structure, news reporting, and publication. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">

Schrock, Kathleen. “What Makes a Good Podcast?” __Discovery Education__. 2005-2008. 26 Jun. 2008. <http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/evalpodcast.html>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Discovery Education’s Kathy Schrock has done it again! This time she has provided teachers and their students with an easy to understand and use rubric for evaluating a podcast’s effectiveness. It even includes a question that references copyright information! <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">

Shelley, Nathan. “Podcasting in the Classroom.” __Archdiocese of San Francisco__. 26 Jun. 2008. <http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~nshelley/index.html>. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">A good starting point for using iPods in the classroom, this site provides an overall rationale for the technology, background information for both students and teachers, and links to more information about podcasting. While it appears to be aimed at late elementary or middle school grades, it could be adapted and used with high school students as well.