iPod+Grant+-+Creative+Classroom+Use

iPod Grant

Sell ..start with the school committee before you go public ..then your tech department

Source of conflict : “take those earbuds out of your ears” “put that away”

An iPod is a solitary device….

Sent out, by e-mail, a grant idea – see presentation  – along with a few ideas to get them thinking:

Ipod.gcsu.edu http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/ http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/handhelds.shtml http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/appleiphoneipod/

How will you use it in your classroom?

Other “stuff” they might want: Headsets with microhones

Buds and a pencil microphone kids like better Belkin Tune Talk (to make it a recorder) Charger (so you do not have to charge at a computer Car/wall charger Splitter ($2) to put a few kids on - Hearing saver (Griffin Rock Star splitter – do different things with the iPod i.e. listen, record Nero9 – allows you to do a variety of things with video Colby speakers that iPod sits in (has volume)

When you go into a classroom ask, “What are kids learning?” (not what are you teaching?)

Itsallgoodffes5.edublogs.org/ms-bs-class/

http://www.kulowiechistory.blogspot.com/ •	Students from other classes uses his podcasts •	Uses lectures from universities

Have teachers and kids attend civic clubs, board of selectman, council on aging… to build an understanding of the tools and what kids are using…