Ipods in instruction

During my search for sites talking about experiences with ipod as an instructional tool, I came across one that was very interesting. In an article from the Penn State's The Daily Collegian Online( www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/04/04-03-07tdc), it talked about how a professor and an alumnus got together and found a way to put different types of heart rhythms onto an ipod for students to listen to. The students recognition of the different rhythms went from 40 to 80 percent.
Duke University's (www.dukenews.duke.edu) experience has actually increased in it's second year. More students were found using ipods for lectures, assignments, study tools, etc. They have turned the entire program into several courses that are available year round. i hope to follow this to see where it goes in the years to come with technology and ipods changing yearly.

iTunes University

Navigating iTunes wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. I liked the fact that once in the university I had the option of picking what university I wanted to visit or the choice of K-12. The K-12 link goes to some really good topics and would be very useful in most subjects.
The iTunes university site proved to be better than I was expecting it to be and had plenty of good things that will be handy in all levels of education.

Alice Christie

After visiting Ms. Christie's site, I found several things to be very interesting and helpful. The links take you to some very good sites that have very useful information. I found the art link to be very good. The fact that it takes you directly to a site that has really good pictures. In an art classroom asking your students to go to this site to view these paintings would be more convenient than getting a book and printing out the same picture.
I also liked the information on multimedia. This would be helpful in any classroom setting. It gives good detailed instructions on how to take different types of photos in different ways. Most certainly liked the info on podcast, that will be very helpful to me as a student in this class. The podcast link takes you to a page that has links to very good sites that have very easy to follow tasks to aid in creating a good podcast. Overall the site will be helpful to any teacher in any classroom teaching any subject.