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Getting Started with iPod touch:
A guide for using iPod touch and iTunes for teaching and learning
Finding and Using Education
Content for iPod touch
iPod touch and iTunes provide a great way for you and your students to access
valuable educational resources. This may be content from existing sources, such as
educationalapplications,podcasts,audiobooks,movies,musicCDs,audiolesof
speeches, or content students create themselves, such as podcasts, movies, photos, or
slidepresentations.AllofthesetypesoflescanbesyncedtoiPodtouchforstudents,
their families, and others to share.
Thissectiondescribesdierenttypesofeducationcontentandapplicationsthatare
available for use with iPod touch. The next chapter describes how you can use the tools
that come with a Mac and iPod touch itself to produce your own content to use with
iPod touch.
Finding Content on iTunes U
One great resource from the iTunes Store is the comprehensive collection of podcasted
lectures, lab demonstrations, language lessons, movies, panel discussions, and more
availablefromiTunesU.Therearenowover150,000freeaudioandvideolesavailable
to anyone in the world, including K–12 teachers and students. iTunes U content
comes from over 130 colleges and universities, state departments of education, and
other education content providers, is provided for free, and includes content for
both Higher Education and K-12 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
providers 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. You can download and play iTunes U content on a computer or transfer it to
iPod touch.
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