What is the best way to use an iPod in an elementary classroom?

I teach Reading and would love to have some projects to use the iPod with my students. I think they would really enjoy it. Asked by crains 49 months ago Similar questions: iPod elementary classroom Education & Reference.

Excellent question An iPod allows for you to carry media around and introduce it in ways that can be quite fun. You can create mashups on your personal computer at home and bring them to school. With only one iPod in the classroom you won't be able to display it to the entire class, but with a cheap cable you can hook it up to a projector or television.

What is really nice is the large variety of multimedia material that instantly becomes available through the iTunes store. Podcasts from Grammar Girl, to Technology for Educators instantly becomes available. Then there are the television shows like the Discovery Channel, and Science Channel allow for even more content to be delivered.

I really like being able to use my iPod/iPhone to carry material around and use it in seminars and classes. I've even created multimedia presentations and ran them off the iPod into the projection system of a classroom (using the iLife suite to make the materials). Sources: Duneridge Lake Shore Red, a fine wine from a by gone winery..

Pictures, Music, Videos Pictures, You can load all sorts of pictures on it including shapes, colors, numbers, letters etc. Music Get some educational songs like the alphabet song and have the kids sing along Video Get some videos that get the kids thinking like the Noggin show Imagination Movers It's also a great way to get motor skills, it will teach kids how to gently touch something and associate movement on the screen with the finger touch.

IPods have a note function. So, you can type in a word document something to read, then download it to their iPods to read. If there was a book on CD, this would enable them to listen to the book being read and read it themselves at the same time..

Podcasts There are TONS of great podcasts you can subscribe to. You can also DL audiobooks for the students to listen to.

Not many I don't know many ways but one way you could do it is upload a story or lesson or something onto a class website and have them download it. However your surely to have students that hate the ipod lol, and probably don't own one so you would have to think of something like that. Other than that you could do a project where students can reserch MP3 players, I said MP3 players because they have a better history and more intersting than ipods do..

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