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Getting Started with iPod touch:
A guide for using iPod touch and iTunes for teaching and learning
Providing Customized Content for Individual Students
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creating separate playlists in iTunes. You could set up one student group account to
sync all content to one main iTunes library as described in the previous section. You
can then provide individualized content for each student by creating a playlist for that
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touch devices to sync manually, you can drag each student’s playlist to the iPod touch
he or she will be using. Playlists can also be used for special projects or for organizing
content by subject.
To create a new playlist in iTunes:
Choose File > New Playlist, or click the Add button (+) in the bottom-left corner of the 1
iTunes window.
Type a name for the playlist.2
Click Music (or another item below Library) and then drag an item to the playlist. To 3
select multiple items, hold down the Command or Shift key while you click.
Another way to provide customized content for each student is to create one user
account for each student using the computer. Although such accounts take longer
to create initially, this is a good way to provide privacy for student work saved on the
computer. You may also want individual accounts when students need special settings
on the computer to accommodate learning or other disabilities. iTunes and iPhoto
libraries would be unique to each student account, and the iPod touch devices would
be synced for individual student content using this type of setup.
Providing Separate Content for Each Class
If you have multiple classes using the same computer, you could set up one user
account for each class. If students save their work to individual computers rather than
to a server, separate class accounts would make it faster for students to locate their
work because the account would only include work saved by students in that particular
class.
Each class account would have its own iTunes and iPhoto libraries, applications, and
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sync the iPod touch devices with the content needed for each class.
Providing the Same Content for All Students
If you want all of your classroom iPod touch devices to contain the same content,
one way to do this is to set up a computer with two user accounts—an administrator
account for you and one student account that all students share. With this setup,
a student using the computer would log in with the student group username and
password. You would log in to that computer using the administrator account.
All of the students would share a common iPhoto and iTunes library, iPod touch
applications, bookmarks, email setup (if any), and so on. When an iPod is synced
with the computer, the content from the shared student account’s iTunes and iPhoto
libraries and other items to be synced would be loaded onto the iPod touch. Many
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iPod touch to be the easiest way to manage and distribute content. If the classroom
has an Apple iPod Learning Lab (see “Mobile Learning with the Apple iPod Learning
Lab”), you can sync 20 iPod touch devices to one MacBook simultaneously.