LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

Ipods and podcast are becoming very important and powerful learning tools in education.  According to this article,  written by Derik DeLong, iTunes dedicated an area called iTunes U available through, iTunes Store box on the store’s home page.  iTunes U features audio and visual content from a number of schools, such as MIT; Penn State; Stanford; and the University of California, Berkeley. These universities are using iPods to help expand core literacy in ways that are fresh and exciting for students. The students can listen to the lecture according to their own time schedule. They can also revisit the podcasts and review what they may have missed or forgotten.  Aside from college coursework, tutorial on everything and even language lessons are also available on iTune stores.  iPod’s Portable Notes feature was also discussed on this article where you can store notes for speech, presentation and minutes from meeting, which you can retrieve anytime.  Other tools such as flashcards, prefab notes, iPreppress and podcast on other interesting college courses that you probably missed were also described in this article.