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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
Locating and Listening to Audiobooks
Many students benet from listening to audiobooks on iPad and iPod touch. A large
selection of audiobooks is available for purchase from the Books section of the iTunes
Store. In addition, iTunes U includes hundreds of public domain audiobooks recorded
and distributed by the University of South Florida. If you already have audiobooks on
CD in your classroom or school library, you can import those books into iTunes and
then sync them to iPad or iPod touch.
To locate audiobooks available from the iTunes Store, click iTunes Store in the sidebar
in iTunes. Click Books in the top menu bar in the main iTunes Store window. The avail-
able audiobooks, such as Lord of the Flies, Macbeth, and The Great Gatsby, are organized
by category. You can also locate audiobooks by entering a title or author in the search
eld at the top right of the iTunes window, and then pressing Return or Enter.
To view the large collection of audiobooks in the Lit2Go collection oered by the
University of South Florida, go to itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/DZR.woa/wa/
viewTagged?tag=Lit2Go&id=384490576.
Students can easily move around audiobooks on iPad or iPod touch. If an audiobook
has chapters, tap Previous/Rewind to restart the current chapter. Tap Previous/Rewind
twice to move to the previous chapter and tap Next-Fast-forward to move to the next
chapter. When you end a session and return to the book later, the device starts the
book where you last stopped listening.
You can set audiobooks to play faster or slower. To set an audiobook’s play speed, open
iPad or iPod touch Settings, choose Music > Audiobook Speed, then choose Slower,
Normal, or Faster.
Subscribing to Podcasts
In addition to the resources on iTunes U, a wide range of other educational content is
available as podcasts. With podcasts, you and your students can subscribe to free audio
or video content available on the Internet. Once you subscribe to a podcast, each new
episode gets downloaded to the computer automatically and then can be synced to
the iOS device.
The iTunes Store is one of the best sources for education-related podcasts, with a
section for education. You’ll nd shows produced by students, professional develop-
ment materials from other educators, podcasts designed to help with learning a new
language, and podcasts from museums. You and your students can also create and
post podcasts to the iTunes Store. (See “Producing Podcasts” later in this guide.)
To access your library of podcast subscriptions, tap Podcasts in the top menu bar of
the main iTunes window.
Locating Movies, Music, Speeches, and Other Media
Along with podcasts and audiobooks, you can also use other types of content with
iPad, iPod touch, and iTunes. You can browse the iTunes Store to locate a variety of
other media to enhance your curriculum, such as documentary movies, television
shows, famous speeches, and children’s music.
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