Thursday, January 14, 2010

iPod Nano 5th Generation

09nano_video_green2The iPod nano 5th generation is very cool and affords us fantastic opportunities in education.  I was lucky enough to receive an iPod nano for Christmas, and ever since I’ve been discovering new possibilities for its use in education.
In my war with what I think is a faulty Flip Video camera (it’s frozen on the startup screen), I turned to my handy iPod nano.  I can take video with this!  And the screen is bigger and clearer, so why wouldn’t I just use this instead of the Flip?  Duh!  I can also transfer the movie files to any computer without launching iTunes.
Another dilemma solved… I have several classes starting VoiceThread projects.  I’m thinking to myself, hmmm, how are all of my students going to record their comments in my one educator account?  I know, my iPod!  Yes, folks it is true.  I can record voices using VoiceMemo on my iPod nano, plug it into any computer, and drag the voice memo files off.  How cool is that?
I am so excited about these possibilities.  Now, to share with my students and teachers!

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