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"iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. Creative Uses for iPod touch in Education iPod touch for Meeting the Needs of Special Learners"

Another superb post from Tony Vincent this time a comprehensive listing with discussion of how to maximise the setup of ipod touches in the classroom. A definite recommendation for anyone looking to use iPod Touches in the classroom.

Huge number of educational apps available at iTunes, mostly free.

The Acalanes Union High School District has published this list of iPod Touch/iPhone apps that are installed on the iPod Touches that the district schools have. It lists the apps under curriculum area along with a short description, the cost if any and the iTunes link.

"ICTEV's 2011 conference aims to put you in touch with educational colleagues who will enthuse and inspire you to integrate technologies in your learning and teaching. The technologies you will hear about and explore on the day will allow you and your students to be in touch with other educational communities (schools and professionals) across the world."

Event for Victorian Educators, Sat 21 May 2011.

some really great uses and ideas for using iPod Touch in the classroom. Have to wonder what's more powerful in learning - this or a laptop

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A great resource about how an Auckland school has trialled the introduction of iPod Touches in the classroom.

"Top 10 Free Apple iPod Touch Apps for English and Language Arts"

Here's a sneak preview of the soon to be released iPod Touch / iPhone / iPad client for Student Response Network. This new client option provides schools with another way to get student effective and responses and polling in the classroom. More information about SRN at http://studentresponsenetwork.com Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCadKc3TGg

Written by one of the people involved with the NSW DET. Appears to be free to NSW DET schools and commercially available to other school sectors.

"With support from the Governor 's Productivity Investment Fund and the Virginia Department of Education, Radford University and participating schools in southwestern Virginia are exploring how the iPod Touch can be used to enhance effective teaching and learning. As school systems struggle with how best to deal with this cultural and technological shift, it is highly likely that the technology will continue to progress towards more powerful, wireless handheld computers that can deliver high quality, multimedia, computer processing power. " This site has links to games that have been developed as well as videos of iPods in use in schools.

These pages include links to a range of free or almost free iphon/ipod touch apps that may be of interest to K-12 teachers and students. The list is ordered under a range of headings including Language Arts, Science as well as Utilities for Teaching/Learning.

Digital storytelling is a craft that uses the tools of digital technology to tell stories about our lives. Done properly, storytelling can be a powerful, evocative, and emotional way of communicating themes and stories, often touching us in deeper ways than one-dimensional videos that rarely probe beneath the surface of people's lives. Here are the steps that should enable you to create your story

Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how magazines are now useless and impossible to understand, for digital natives. It shows real life clip of a 1-year old, growing among touch screens and print. And how the latter becomes irrelevant. Medium is message. Humble tribute to Steve Jobs, by the most important person : a baby.

Following today's Apple Event, Apple has just released Apple Configurator, an app that "makes it easy for anyone to mass configure and deploy iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch in a school, business, or institution." Apple Configurator is likely of the same variety as what Apple uses in its own stores to reset its showroom devices, but now it's available for organizations and schools to make updating and resetting devices effortless. This should break down a few major barriers that kept organizations from widely adopting the devices before.

This site has been conceived and is being composed to support the activities of our staff and students, encouraging them to publish content digitally and take time to reflect upon their learning activities. We hope that other interested academics, learners or curriculum support staff will contribute to the content found here. If you fall into one of these groups, please get in touch and let us know how you might be able to contribute. We look forward to sharing the Mahara experience with you.

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A blog post where the author invited Gautam John, who works with Pratham Books, to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. In this post, shares more about how his organization uses Creative Commons licenses and why he thinks it is important for your organization to consider it