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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
iOS devices, the iTunes U app, and iTunes provide a great way for you and your
students to access valuable education resources. This includes content from existing
sources, such as apps, textbooks, and other books from the iBookstore, iTunes U
content and courses, podcasts, audiobooks, music, and videos, as well as content you
create yourselves, such as podcasts, movies, photos, slide presentations, and books
for iPad created with iBooks Author.
This section describes dierent types of education content and apps available for use
with iOS devices. The next section describes how you and your students can use the
tools that come with a Mac and iPad and iPod touch to produce your own content to
use with these devices.
Finding Content on iTunes U
One great resource from the iTunes Store is iTunes U, the world’s largest online catalog
of free education content. iTunes U has more than 500,000 pieces of content—including
complete courses, lectures, lab demonstrations, language lessons, movies, panel discus-
sions, and more. iTunes U content comes from hundreds of colleges, universities, and
elementary and high schools around the world; state departments of education; and
other education content providers. It includes content for both K–12 and higher educa-
tion audiences. For example, you can view and listen to speeches, interviews, technology
tutorials, science movies, news reports, art lessons, and professional development
resources of interest to a broad range of audiences.
The Beyond Campus section of iTunes U includes professionally created content from
cultural institutions such as PBS, NPR, and American Public Media, as well as from
museums such as the Smithsonian, The New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum,
and many more.
iTunes U content for use by K–12 teachers and students includes:
• Khan Academy—an ever-growing library of videos on biology, algebra, calculus,
chemistry, and many more topics.
• KQED (a PBS aliate)—a variety of videos and other materials for use in the classroom;
topics include Digital Storytelling and The Physics of Baseball.
• Study Partner from the Tennessee Department of Education—math skills audio
presentations for students in second through eighth grade.
• Library of Congress—a variety of lms, audio, and education materials, including
primary source historical videos such as Early Films: Edison Companies and America
at Work, America at Leisure.
See “Enhancing Productivity for Educators” later in this guide for more iTunes U
resources for professional development.
Students can easily access all of these resources from one place with the iTunes U app
on iPad or iPod touch. They can browse and download content from the entire iTunes U
collection as well as classroom course materials produced with iTunes U Course Manager.
Finding and Using Additional
Education Content