iPod Touch In the Classroom

MrYardley — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:41:22 +0000

The iPod has already had an impact on the education community, but the advent of the iPod Touch shows particular promise as a tool that could significantly improve the classroom. iPods are a great way to deliver media contents to students to give extra review and practice to the students that need it. The iPod touch takes it beyond the basic viewing and listening of media to add applications. From using Internet resources, to communication applications it puts a vast amount of resources in the hands of teachers and students.
In June Apple will release another update for the iPod Touch that will allow you to add a wide variety of applications to your ipod touch. Although I can only speculate I would expect to see grade management, student management, and educational programs very soon after that. This new expansion makes the iPod Touch a viable and valuable classroom tool.

Circumvent Copy Protection on DVD Legal

MrYardley — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:08:00 +0000

The US Copyright office in conjunction with the Library of Congress has implemented a temporary measure that allows teacher to use software to circumvent copy protections to create educational material. This basically allows us to copy video from dvd’s to use portions of the movie in our lessons. The material must meet fair use guidelines, and you must meet fair use guidelines. We will be releasing a guide to fair use for teachers shortly.

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iPod Touch In the Classroom

Circumvent Copy Protection on DVD Legal