Fort Dodge has purchased 3 iPods to enhance our TAG program. This is our pilot. I have seen mixed results. Most of our hurdles have been on the teacher side. They are scared of breaking them (iPod or belkin recorder) or having students break them while using them. The one thing that the tech dept. and myself said from the get-go is that there is no reason to purchase nano's for $149 when you can go out and buy a desktop USB mic for $25 and download audacity for free. The only thing that the iPod is good for is recording audio away from the computer. That doesn't happen as much as it could, but 3 iPods at this time is enough for our TAG dept. to stay happy. We are using www.podomatic.com to host our podcasts and then set that website up to dump them into iTunes. Chris Technology Integration Coordinator Fort Dodge Community School District chander...@fort-dodge.k12.ia.us Office phone (515) 574-5362 Cell phone (712) 299-3028
________________________________ From: info-tech-ow...@aea8.k12.ia.us on behalf of Linda Huseman Sent: Tue 2/17/2009 9:05 AM To: Info-Tech (E-mail) Subject: [info-tech] iPods in the classroom We have been throwing around the idea of purchasing iPods at the high school. If any of you are using or have used them, we have a few questions for you. What is the educational value of using iPods in the classroom? What types of things have classrooms done with them? Have you come across any problems and is Apple willing to help? Besides the iPods, what kind of hardware will we need to get started? Do you have any other suggestions that you can offer? Thanks Linda Linda Huseman Technology Coordinator Alta Community School 101 W. 5th St. Alta, IA 51002 200-1331 200-1400 200-1602 (Fax) --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the alta.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
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