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iTunes and your iPod. By Secondary Ed Tech Marty Daniel, Terry Kidd, & Jeanine Wilson. What do we know about iPods and iTunes?. Why use podcasts?. Reinforce content literacy Differentiate learning Add depth to a topic Remediate concepts Review content for absence
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iTunes and your iPod By Secondary Ed Tech Marty Daniel, Terry Kidd, & Jeanine Wilson
Why use podcasts? • Reinforce content literacy • Differentiate learning • Add depth to a topic • Remediate concepts • Review content for absence • Develop teacher expertise
Reinforce content literacy • Calculus - video • Adding Integers - video • Keepin’ Biology Real – audio podcast • Go Fly a Kite! - Ball State Webisodes • Discovering Jamestown - video • US History - audio lectures on 20th century • Frankenstein by Mary Shelly - audio book
Reinforce content literacy • MOMA - Art - descriptions of exhibitions • First Year French at UT - audio • Discover Spanish - a companion website • CDC - CDC over 80 different health topics • Classical Performance - WGBG broadcasts • American Shakespeare Company - discussions • CSS Tricks - Screencast movie tutorials
Find the Good Stuff • Select iTunes U. • Put in your search term.
Navigation and Viewing Change the way content appears. Navigate back, forward and home.
Get it Free! Sort by price by clicking on the header.
Read Your Results Even when searching for podcastsapps or other items appear in the results.Often a video podcast will specify that in the title.
Save your podcasts • Search for relevant content • Click subscribe or get episode • Go to your Podcast and listen to downloaded content High school chemistry
Move them to your iPod • Sync automatically only if you are a single computer user. • Sync manually if you use more than one computer.
Placing podcasts in your HAPG’s • Find the podcast and copy it to your resources folder. • My Computer>My Documents>My Music>iTunes • Create a link in your HAPG document to the file.
Appendix • On line resources • Where to find this presentation • How to find and install iTunes
Resources • 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges • Education Podcasts on iTunes • iTunes University • Museum Podcasts • History, geography and archaeology • Podcasting and Education • Apple Guide for Educators on iTunes and iPods
Find this presentation • houstoncia.wikispaces.com
Getting iTunes Go to the following web address: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Download iTunes • Uncheck the boxes and click the blue button • It is unnecessary to put in your email address.
Save the file Save it on your desktop. Click Save
Install • Close your browser window • Double-click on the file iTunesSetup • Follow the program prompts to install the iTunes software