iPod Goes Back to School

The 2004 Duke iPod experiment has been closely watched by many in the higher education community and this fall several colleges and universities will also begin testing the use of iPod technology in an educational context.

Drexel University, for example, is providing iPods for students in the school of education. In addition to the iPod, Drexel is distributing the Pod2Go software, which allows students to turn their iPod into a PDA, receive over 1,000 news or other RSS content feeds (including social bookmarking RSS feeds), as well as the ability to read or write Word, RTF, or text files.

iPodSoft also makes several applications which can be used to support student learning, including iStory and MarkAble. Teachers are also rapidly adopting podcasting as a means to distribute original curriculum materials and provide 'on demand' learning opportunities for their students.

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