Using iPods in the Classroom (Duke University)

I have studied information on how iPods can be useful in the classroom. I went to this website: Duke University and Ipods .

Duke University uses iPods to enhance learning at their school. At Duke University, about 1,200 students will use iPods. Duke gave away iPods to 1,600 upcoming freshmen. Duke only gave iPods away to students who's professor requires them for course work. The classes are those that are coordinated through Duke's center for Instructional Technology. Part of Duke's Digital initiative is designed to encourage digital multimedia use in classroom instruction. The iPods they will give away have a recording plug-in device. The plug-in device makes it possible to make digital audio recordings of lectures and interviews.

At Duke University, the following classes are some of the classes that will be using the iPods in the classroom for course work: Foreign Language, Engineering, Music, and Documentary Studies. Duke University is also fixing to include: Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and dance in the list of classesw using iPods. The new iPods that are coming out store and display pictures and videos on a small screen. An example of how one of the classes will incorporate the iPod in the classroom is a history course call Digital Durham and the New South. The class will use iPods as students record data from court records and other public archives. Another way to use them in the classroom is to create podcasts or online presentations that require the use of copying recordings.