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From: Julie Freed Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:20 AM To: at-liai...@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [at-liaison] FW: iTunes Volume App Purchases Clarification on Apple policy changes for iPod use in the schools: see below Julie M. Freed, M.S., CCC-SLP GWAEA Assistive Technology Consultant Speech/Language Pathologist mailto:jfr...@gwaea.org 319-399-6546 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Andy Crozier [mailto:acroz...@aea10.k12.ia.us] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 9:58 AM To: Kathleen Goslinga; Kay Rewerts; Tony Amsler; Stacy Behmer; Jane Smith; Julie Freed Subject: iTunes Volume App Purchases So there has been some questions on the process of the iTunes Volume App purchases. Here is what it means: You are no longer able to push a paid app out onto multiple iPods, legally. For instance, last year at this time, you could purchase iFitness ($2.99) for your class set of iPod Touches for your health class. You could push that app onto 20 iPods and not worry about paying for that app 20 times. You can no longer do that. With the volume app purchases, you must buy vouchers from Apple and then they send a list of codes to redeem those via the iTunes Store. It actually gives you the ability to distribute those to individuals. Similar to how we distribute audible codes to our C21 participants. This process is really setting Apple up for large scale deployments of iPads/iPods. They see it as a way of distributing textbooks/digital apps for the iPad to individuals in certain classes. Take some time if you are interested more in this process to read the FAQ page, the webinar, and the Volume purchasing program page. Apple has a lot of work to do to simplify this process. Tony Vincent wrote a great blog post about the confusion of this process here: http://learninginhand.com/blog/app-store-volume-purchase-program-explained.html In essence, the days of a teacher downloading a paid app and deploying it on a class set of 20 iPods are over. Please note: FREE apps are not associated with this process. All the links are here: Overview: http://www.apple.com/itunes/education Volume Purchase Program: http://volume.itunes.apple.com/ VPP FAQs: http://volume.itunes.apple.com/faq/ VPP Webinar: http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2932 Education Mobility Webinars: http://www.apple.com/education/tuneinseries/ Andy Crozier Grant Wood Area Education Agency Coordinator of Digital Learning Technology acroz...@gwaea.org 319-399-6866 (319) 853-8728 - Google Voice Number 800-332-8488 ext. 6866 www.aea10.k12.ia.us Need to schedule a meeting? Go to tungle.me/acrozier
