iPods are a very good way to get instruction to students in the world that we live in today. iPods can be used to view podcasts or to even record them. I found an excellent site called Mr. Langhorst's 8th Grade Web Classroom. Mr. Langhorst is an American History teacher and has podcasts available for each section and even has what are called Studycasts which is basically a review session for each unit test. Students can view all of the podcasts from their convenient little iPod. To get to this excellent page click here.
Following along this same course Duke University decided to incorporate iPod instruction in 2008 and it was so successful the use of iPods is growing. The University distributed about 1600 iPods uploaded with orientation material to all of its incoming freshman in the Fall of 2008. Although they have decided to shift the focus of iPod distribution to just certain classes the experiment was deemed as positive. The opinion of faculty is mixed, some are very excited about using the new form of technology and others don't see the use in it. The iPod has been used in courses including theater studies, music and foreign languages. Overall the project has introduced a new technology that will soon catch on and be implemented in many more courses on Duke's campus.
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