iPod Touch Use Week 4, Term 2

[Stacey Kelly]

In the past week how have you used your ipod touch in the classroom and or for administration uses?

[Wade Greenwood]

I have used the calender as an organizational tool. As a portable email device. Used the timetable app to have personal TT on hand at all times.

[Adam Currey]

The ability to be able to check email on the go is fantastic. As well I have my calender synched between my iPhone and entourage so it allows me to add a new contact or event on my iPhone and adds it to entourage at the same time. Alarms are great as well for reminders throughout the day.

[Annie Agnew]

Hi Adam,
could you send some information about this as I have a teacher colleague who is struggling with exactly this issue...

thanks,
Annie




Adam Currey said:

The ability to be able to check email on the go is fantastic. As well I have my calender synched between my iPhone and entourage so it allows me to add a new contact or event on my iPhone and adds it to entourage at the same time. Alarms are great as well for reminders throughout the day.

[Stacey Kelly]

I have been using my iphone for a rnage of things including:
Calendar
Email
Safari
Quick Office (great for editing excel/word docs)
RSS Reader - keeps me update on what is happening on different people's blogs etc
Taking photos for presentations / using the app animoto
and finally:
Checking the footy scores!

[Ashlee Hall]

I have used the calendar, calculator, safari, downloaded music for dance lessons and a used a Shakespeare app with students.

[Alan Ronayne]

Timetable and attendance. Can't see these devices as useful learning aids in a full classroom with one unit. Even an additional 4 units (when they arrive) are limited in their application in this setting. We are planning to test them with our one on one withdrawal students. But to be honest, while I see the ipod as a supercharged PDA with useful apps, I am as yet unconvinced as to their real worth in the classroom....at least without major investment by the school. On a side note, I suspect the lack of activity on the Ning may represent similar feelings elswhere....

Can you give me real suggestions?

[Stacey Kelly]

Hi Alan
Thanks for the information. I think we need to be reminded that this is a pilot project and the contexts that all schools are working in are very different. Further all schools are at very different points in their implementation plans as well! A few weeks ago we held out first video conference catch up which was great and contribted further to our understanding of how these devices could be used in a classroom setting. As for the ning this too is another trial of a new technology - lets be honest we are all busy people and perhaps this ning is just another thing that we need to be doing! However we need to provide a workplace for teachers in this project and other interested people to discuss ideas and share what they have discovered. We believed that a ning would be a great tool which perhaps would overcome issues of distance and time.

Adam and I are planning in week 8 to come and spend some more time with staff in the Murrumburrah/Harden area if you would some extra support please get in contact. Happy to help.

Alan Ronayne said:

Timetable and attendance. Can't see these devices as useful learning aids in a full classroom with one unit. Even an additional 4 units (when they arrive) are limited in their application in this setting. We are planning to test them with our one on one withdrawal students. But to be honest, while I see the ipod as a supercharged PDA with useful apps, I am as yet unconvinced as to their real worth in the classroom....at least without major investment by the school. On a side note, I suspect the lack of activity on the Ning may represent similar feelings elswhere....

Can you give me real suggestions?