And, just to add to the overflow of iPod-related posts, Georgia College & State University has a pilot program in which iPods are used to distribute MP3s of class lectures or of music related to a course.
Two iMacs were placed in separate computer labs to serve as the “mother ship” for student iPods. Each participating professor received an iBook and an iPod. EIS assisted in digitizing the audio portions of a video of a lecture by one of the professors and in digitizing an audio cassette, converting both to MP3s for use with the iPod. Once all the audio files were gathered and transferred to the faculty member’s iPod, the EIS team transferred the files to iMacs that were deployed to the computer labs. Students came to the lab, connected their iPods to an iMac, and had their contents automatically updated in a few seconds. By logging in to the correct class, they were able to call up the proper iTunes playlist, sync their iPods, and download all the files for the course. As the professors made changes during the semester, the students could come into the lab, plug in their iPods, sync and update. The result, according to university officials: students took to the iPods with “great enthusiasm and no significant technical problems were encountered at any time during the fall semester.”
Sure, it sounds fun, but wouldn’t it be a lot easier to just put the MP3s up on a server and let students download them? Didn’t I read somewhere that college students were good at downloading MP3s?
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