iPods

iPods

All iPods:
iPods are more than just music and video players. iPods have functionality that can be used in many different ways for teaching and learning.

Ways to use iPods in your classroom: The Learning in Hand website has tons of information for the use of many different types of handheld devices. They have one section devoted to the iPod Nano and iPod Classic (these are the traditional iPods). There is also a section devoted to the iPod Touch which is much more like an iPad because it has touch screen technology.
 * Create podcasts of lesson or study session. Teacher or student created.
 *  [|Learning Math with Music] : Students work in groups to create their own rhymes and songs for an entire family of math facts. Individual students record their songs using an attachable microphone.
 *  [|Radio Show] : After reading and listening to several radio dramas, student groups write and record a radio drama based on an event or period in history.
 *  [|iPod Reporters] : Students explore the basics of news reporting and gain an understanding of why news is news and what their responsibilities are as news gatherers. Students then plan a class newspaper.
 *  [|Reading Fluency with iPods and GarageBand] : The goal of this lesson is to develop stronger reading fluency and comprehension, and increase language acquisition skills: Using an iPod and a voice recorder.
 *  [|The Lewis and Clark Expedition] : Students download and watch videos from United Streaming on iPods. Similarly, check out [|All Quiet on the Western Front].
 *  [|Oral Histories] : After a discussion on what it means to be an American, students use an iPod and a voice recorder to interview a family member. They then combine the interview with old photos of that relative in iMovie, and create a short video history about that person.
 *  [|Digital Science Experiments] :This lesson can be applied to any science experiment. The teacher uses an iPod and a voice recorder to provide experiment instructions to small groups of students.
 *  [|Listening to Letter Sounds] : Sounds and their corresponding symbols are taught in a series of lessons using various strategies and aided by Lively Letter cards.

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