February


 * Morning agenda:**

[|Apple's iPods in Education site] [|Learning in Hand's iPods in Education site] [|Mary's Portal] - links to iPod resources [|10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget]
 * Rosemary & Mary / iPods in education**

Cost? iTouch $299 8G, $399 16G / 80g video $249 Can you track IP addresses on the iTouch? not sure
 * Questions:**

Make sure iPods come with mikes Have elem teachers read books to kids and record themselves Have teachers record their kids reading as a sort of digital portfolio Download audio books / both for PD and for kids Use the notes feature to add documents / etc Use iPods to [|create and give quizzes] to your kids Backup computer data on your iPod / teachers need to be doing this! (on 80G video version) The iPod Touch does not have the 'disk enabled' feature so cannot be used as a hard drive.
 * Suggestions:**

//Tony's conversation:// Extras on iPod Menu: Notes can. . . 1. show text files (such as a list of adjectives or transition words for kids to use) and these text files can be "hyperlinked" as a "little bitty web page" / this could be used to put a list of documents up that are linked to the documents 2. This also allows kids to create their Choose Your Own Adventure Stories. (Intro chapter than give two or three choices that are hyperlinked that lead to different choices and different endings to their stories) [|Use iWriter] to help you do this 3. Can put photos on the iPod / create flashcards using PowerPoint or Keynote and upload to iPod 4. He also has a tip "calculator" and a "Fraction Stick" using Keynote (PPT) as a way to start thinking about math applications 5. Be sure to go to his web site / the link to his web site's section on iPods is listed above / [|his home page] / be sure to check out his [|blog] and [|podcast] as well

Format iPod for Mac and Windows? / Windows can't "read" Mac iPods so format for Windows FIRST than for Mac (because Macs can read both)

Using RSS on your iPod [|iFeedpod] for Mac [|iPodSync] for Windows

Data: Tom shared an example of an Excel document that collected data of apes and then showed how to the data can be displayed in chart format [| InspireData]

Sharing Out: [|Kansas Public Library] [|Electoral Compass] [| Select a Candidate] Turning Point Learning Center Campaign Wiki [|International Children's Digital Library] [|Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary] [|SciVee TV] [|Internet Picture Dictionary] [|Teacher's Domain] [|ELL Links] [|Mighty Books] [|Amble Elementary School site] (lots of handy tools on left side)

Afternoon age: Go to Tonya Witherspoon's [|Mindscapes]