Macworld for Educators Podcast Program

Listen to this episode: Tap into this – using the iPod Touch in the classroom

We all know that the iPod spearheaded a revolution in the way we think of and utllise personal entertainment. And some of us right now have a sense that the iPhone is leading a radical change in the way we go about our personal and professional business. Well, Joe Morelock, from the Canby School District in Oregon, and Kathy Shirley, from the Escondido Union School District in California, reckon that the iPod Touch has a similar revolutionary potential in the educational sector.

At Macworld today Joe and Kathy ran a workshop on that topic, entitled Tap into Something More: Using iPod Touch in the Classroom. Well, it wasn’t actually about educational revolutions per se. It was more of an opportunity for participants to get some hands-on experience of just what this device might be able to do for education, in the right pedagogical hands, that is, as Joe and Kathy explain in this interview with Ian Green.

Joe and Kathy are both Apple Distinguished Educators, and you can access a whole range of iPod Touch material that they have assembled, including guides, examples, resources etc., at Kathy’s iPoddess (yes, that’s ‘iPoddess’ as in ‘goddess’) and iRead sites.