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Teaching Heart's Update: June 08 |
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- A listening center on the go when loaded with audio books and podcasts. Read and record your voice reading stories you want your students to read and listen to. - Teaching a science lesson and you want to use two songs each from different CD's? Load on your songs and create a playlist and never mess with changing a CD. Load on all your kids books and you won't have to worry about those messy CD's. -Teachers will even find summer professional development coursework available in free podcasts, and the calendar and to-do list create a portable planner. -With iTunes you can import, buy, organize, play, watch, and burn all your different media files! I use iTunes to organize my music. I sort my songs into playlists, for example "Alphabet", "Math", "Movement", "Numbers", "Rhyme Time", "Transition", etc. It is much easier to find the song I need and I don't have to change out CDs. It is incredible to have 2000 songs at your fingertips without having to swap cds or look for cds. |
so 2 kids can listen to 1 IPOD |
My Dream IPOD. You could store the world's music on this thing! |
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Record to Your IPOD |
I have these headphones and they are perfect for kids. |
I have had good luck with these too! |
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Heart Visitors Share:
Yes Sara, you can download all of your childhood music to an IPOD. I have done just that and some. You can buy very cheap speakers or very expenisve ones. I have listed some I use below. Basically you just plug in your IPOD and play it with these speakers. The awesome thing about an IPOD is that it is fast. You can find any song in less than a 30 seconds. You can play songs from multiple CD's without changing a CD. If you take the time to read ITUNES for Teachers, you can see and learn more about this. As far as copying recordings, and I believe you are quoting StarFall (my son loves that story). I would record my own voice saying the line from the story and then place it on my ipod. Yes, you can do all you want to do and so much more with an IPOD!!!
I really use the instrumental and classical sections all the time. It really helps the kids focus on their work and keeps the noise level down. I love to hear them "whisper sing" all the favorite Bible songs during Religion time. I am a first grade teacher at Faith Lutheran Academy in Las Vegas, NV. - Gemma Raymond
I also use it to record individuals' reading aloud for running records. They love to hear themselves played back -- and to hear me chanting, "I've got Kayla on my iPod!" I share these individual files via email with their parents. It gives me a different twist on a reading test to send home. I know that other teachers also do podcasts of their classwork for the kids to utilize outside of class, but my own guys are little, and I think they're in school more than enough time as it is! It's still a great idea, though -- imagine being able to play a math lesson for a parent who was taught in such a different way, or to be able to review what really went on, in addition to one's notes! I have so many books on tape or CD that I don't use my iPod this way, but it's so small and easy to store that it makes a great audio tool for a listening center. And the kids do like being able to use the little wheel in ways that they are famliar with. Kathleen
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ITUNES
For Teachers- Great printable that explains how to use ITunes with your IPOD! |
IPOD in Education YouTube |
Learning
In Hand BLOG- Awesome blog dealing with the ipod in education. |
Galley
Of Educational Image Sets From learning in hand. Great for making presentations for your classroom on your Ipod. Math flascards and hundreds charts are just two of the resources for downloading. |
Read about
how one teacher used and IPOD in her elementary classroom! |
PRE-K
Pages IPODs Wonderful ways to use your ipod in the classroom. Love this page! |
Another
IPOD Idea See how these teachers used the IPOD for word study exercises!!! |
Another
Article Explains some uses of the IPOD in various classrooms. |
Spanish See how IPODS make learning Spanish FUN! |
IPOD Lesson Ideas |
IPODS in the classroom | ITunes in Education examples |
Storynory Free stories to download |
Audacity - free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. |
Podcasts in the Classroom | 10 Podcasts for Teachers and Students |
Listening
Center Making your own recordings |
Treats for your IPOD |
Listening Lounge iPods | Special Needs Students and IPODS |
PRE-K IPODs | Engaging students through technology |
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