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 * __10 Websites About iPods In The Classroom__**

1) [] This is a great article about iPods in the classroom. This article talks about Robert Craven, education technology coordinator for the Orange County Department of Education in California. It talks about Robert’s opinion on iPods, educational possibilities for iPods, innovative ways teachers use iPods, and how to keep students on task.

2) [] This article is about iPod resources that shows how this popular technology is being used to teach and learn. Some of the great sites are centered on Apple’s iPod in the Classroom, iPods in Education, iPods Enter Dukes Classes, iPods at Chapin School, and The iPod at GC&SU: A Pocketful of Learning.

3) [] This article is about iPods invading a local classroom. This article talks about a middle school student who used an iPod for research. At the bottom of the article are comments about iPods and the article from middle school students.

4) [] This article is about a special education co-teacher who implemented a project for her Level 3 practicum in an 8th grade classroom. The project shows how iPods can be used to an individualized testing experience for students. On the bottom of the webpage is an awesome video that you should check out!!!!!

5) [] This article talks about iPods being used for studying at Duke University. It talks about how professors at Duke and other college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students through the use of iPods.

6) [] This article talks about Grand Prairie schools welcoming iPods in their classrooms. Teachers are using iPods to teach students about subjects that they might find boring. One idea that teachers have used are having the teacher belt out a rock song about content matter. This article has lots of great ideas in which teachers have used iPods in their school district.

7) [] This article talks about an elementary school embracing the media player as a learning tool. Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School students are still learning from teachers and textbooks, but iPods are a regular part of their curriculum. The article talks about great ideas that their school has used with iPods to help encourage student learning in the classroom.

8) [] This article talks about IPods becoming the latest advancement in classroom technology at DeSoto Central High School. Their economics classroom is the primary classroom that uses iPods at the high school. Teachers are using iPods to expand students’ grasp of subject matter. About three days a week students use podcasts and audio or video series over the Internet to expand on some of the material they have in the classroom. The high school is looking to add iPods for other subjects, but it is very costly and funds are not available.

9) [] This article is about video iPods in Special Education. It has an awesome video that talks about using iPods to cater for children with intellectual disabilities and language or hearing difficulties. It also talks about some of the things video iPods were used for in the classroom.

10) [] This article is about students in at Culbreth Middle School showing off their iPod Touch capabilities during a class demonstration. The article talks about students looking up an interview on YouTube and used the notepad application on their iPods. Students came up with questions and statements about the interview. It talks about both students and teachers having a positive experience using iPods in the classroom.