For the next 48 hours I will be trading in my 15 inch Macbook Pro for an iPod Touch (aka iTouch). Some of you might think I’m a little crazy, but after attending NECC09 and meeting people like Scott Meech and his iEar Project I want to experience what life would be like if I was a high school student and my primary access to the Internet was an iTouch. Today I was handed a brand new iTouch to pilot and here are a few questions I hope to answer with this experience.
- How hard will it be to live without a full size keyboard?
- Can an iPod Touch be a realistic alternative to a netbook?
- What applications are must haves?
- Would it be realistic to leverage personal, student-owned, iPod Touches as learning devices in the classroom?
- …and I’m sure a few others that will pop up along the way.
I plan to keep my laptop closed and tucked away for any traditional in-school type activities, such as reading, writing, and accessing web 2.0 tools. Should some significant video or photo editing event come my way or if I need to reboot my iPod Touch I’ll get the computer out. Since Tweetdeck is already installed on the iPod Touch you can follow my experience on Twitter.
Have a great weekend!
Joe
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I want to teach my Precalculus class this next year as ‘paperless’ as possible. I am trying to get my students to purchase either an iPod Touch or iPhone for the class. The publisher’s software makes it possible for the students to do their homework, quizzes and tests online so we will use the Touches for these class items with their scores automatically going into a gradebook portion of the same software. Of course, we will use the graphing calculator app. We will also research and use SAT prep Apps. There will be extra credit for students posting YouTube videos (or the like) on topics that we cover in class that can be used as examples onto the class web site (a Google site). I’m very interested to see what else you come up with in your experience!
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