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=10 Websites about using iPods in the classroom  = [] This is an article from San Diego State University’s student newspaper about using iPods in the classroom at the college level for lectures. The professors are turning their lectures into podcasts so students don’t miss out on material if they didn’t attend class. This would be nice to do in middle school for students that were absent for extended periods of time, or I could make a podcast if we were starting a big unit like the metric system. I could put the basics on a podcast that students are able to review any time during the unit.

[] This site is a link to a school in Utah. They have put together a comprehensive list of other sites with positive uses of iPods in the classroom. I thought this was a nice collection that can give educators ideas of how to incorporate iPods into their teaching.

[] Here’s a YouTube video that explores the various uses of iPods in schools.

[] This is a pdf file that I found from a school in the UK. It’s specifically for using iPods in the science classroom. It even has step-by-step directions on how to do things like PowerPoint on your iPod.

[] This site is an Online Education Database with an article on 100 ways to use your iPod to learn and study better. You do have to pay for some of the tools it lists, but I think if I found one that I thought would be useful in my classroom, I would probably pay for it.

[] Kids 4 Change is an after school program for middle school aged students that focuses on teaching energy security and sustainability topics. It is run by faculty members at Virginia Tech. The link above is not really an article, but it gives a very cool example of how to use the iPod touch in the classroom to teach science using a game called Spore.

[] This site is also through Virginia Tech. It’s a blog called move + play + learn. The entry that my link will take you to is about the game Spore that was mentioned in the Kids 4 Change blog. The man that maintains the site is a part of the Kids 4 Change program as well. I chose his blog because he has many posts on using iPods in the classroom. His blog is all about research, news, and events in the areas of mobile learning, digital game-based learning, and new forms of interaction with digital information.

[] This article is on the National Association of Media and Technology Centers site. It’s about a Digital Science Video Library that was made specifically for iPods. It is something that I will look into for use in my science classroom.

[] This article is about an instructor at Tennessee Tech University named Jeremy Wendt and how he has created a blog for other educators to post their uses of the iPod touch in the classroom. It has a link to his blog.

[] I think this site is amazing. I will be teaching one section of English next year and I will definitely be using some of the lesson ideas on this site. There is a huge collection of lessons using iPods to encourage writing.

[] I put this site on here because I came across it during my search. I think it would be a useful tool to teach students about evaluating sources of information they find on the internet and deciding if it is credible. This article is about a video on another site that has a video about how to power your iPod with an onion. It talks about how some people believe the site and take the information as being true.