iPod goes to school

From a teacher’s perspective the iPod allows you to integrate audio seamlessly into the curriculum. Every class, you can use music to set the stage, immediately jump to any point in an audio book, or play a famous speech accessed from the Library of Congress. Video, audio, and images can be loaded on the iPod and provide an excellent manner for bringing a student who missed a day up to speed. Or perhaps a student is struggling with a concept; they can watch a video a number of times on the iPod to fully understand the content. Students struggling with vocabulary can have flash cards on the iPod to see an image, hear a word used in a sentence, and read the word in text—and do it as many times as they need to understand it.

If a teacher records his lectures, then he can make them available for the students to copy, allowing for easier review during study time. This even allows students who use their iPods in the car to listen to the class they just had while driving home. Also with the addition of video, slide shows, entire lessons are converted into an easily transported form so that anyone can view them.

Even not including the media usage of the iPod, it still can act as a standalone portable storage device, reducing the risk of losing documents to and from class. Being able to carry around whole lesson plans from every class and even using it to bring your papers and homework to class avoids the "my dog ate it" issue.