iPods and Educational Technology at CSUSM

As an attempt to see how well the iPods could be used as an educational tool in my EDUC 422 class at CSUSM, I made a series of movies that I compressed for the web and iPods with video. I was surprised how few of my students actually had video iPods; however, I did have one student say that she did use her iPod to watch the iMovie software video. It was very easy for students to watch the videos that I put on the web, but I suspect that going through the trouble of actually downloading the file, sending it to iTunes, then putting it on an iPod may have been too much work when students could simply watch a web stream. I suspect that in another circumstance, I will see an increase in use. I could have been a bit cruel and only released the iPod version of the tutorial, but I'm not that mean :-(

Check out the link on the right for the Accidental Student and you can view the tutorials.