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Friday, March 14, 2008

100 Ways to use your Ipod to learn and study better

A colleague on a listserv pointed me in the direction of a great article entitled 100 Ways to use your Ipod to learn and study better, which can be found at http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/100-ways-to-use-your-ipod-to-learn-and-study-better or http://tinyurl.com/2l25dg

100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better

Published on Tuesday 12th of February, 2008

If you think that iPods are used just for listening to music, you obviously haven't been keeping up with the latest technology. The Apple-developed music player now features all kinds of accessories to help you study better, and now other companies are in a rush to get their designs in sync with the iPod. Pre-teens, college kids and even adults are taking advantage of the educational benefits an iPod affords them. From downloadable podcasts to just-for-iPod study guides and applications, learning on the go has never been easier. To find out about the many different ways you can transform your iPod into a learning device, check out our list below.
Study Guides
Stop trying to keep track of all your Spark Notes and endless study guides. Use these programs to upload study materials onto your iPod.

Spark Notes: Long considered a busy high school or college student's best friend, the online study guide database now offers users an iPod-friendly version. Get summaries and analyses of books like A Tale of Two Cities, Beowulf, Hamlet and more.
iPREPpress: This website provides study guides, travel guides and foreign language training, all compatible with iPods.
Raybook: This company has turned popular study guides and flash cards like Cliff's Notes and Netter's into iPod-compatible study sessions. Programs use video, audio and interactive media to help you learn more effectively.
VangoNotes: College students can browse this website for audio downloads in subjects like Sociology, Nursing, Business, Computer Science and other disciplines to access textbook study guides.
NotePods: Currently offered for just $1.99 each, these iPod-compatible study guides give summaries on Jane Austen novels, Shakespeare plays, works by Tolstoy and more.

Check out the remaining 95 of the suggestions, they can really make you a power IPOD user!

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----Joan L. Green, M.A. CCC_SLP,
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Thomas Edison's mother, Nancy Elliott Edison, knew exactly what to do. When her youngest, Thomas, was essentially kicked out of school after three months because he was "addled," she home schooled him. Where would our society be today if she had resigned herself and her son to the destiny predicted by his school?

So moms, when you feel that you're the only one who sees the abilities of your child, when you feel you're the only champion for your child, please remember the faith Nancy Elliott Edison had in her child, whose inventions have profoundly changed our society.
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Thought For The Day...

Wednesday, November 28

Illiteracy causes more harm than merely having a reduced ability to read and write. Illiteracy causes entire families to remain isolated from the everyday fabric of their local and global communities, to remain isolated from inspiration acquired by "enough education," and to remain isolated from a means to share history beyond the reaches of their spoken word.
----Jeanne Beckman

Sunday, November 25

For students without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For students with disabilities, technology makes things possible."

----- M.P. Radabaugh

Thursday, November 1

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

------Margaret Mead, anthropologist (and a mom)

Friday, October 26

A single kind act creates a ripple effect, spreading ever widening circles of change in our world.
-----Jeanne Beckman

Wednesday, October 24

Education is not filling a pail, but lighting a fire.

--Yeats

Friday, October 19

Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

–Robert F. Kennedy

Tuesday, October 16

If a public body, such as a school, seeks to silence a parent-requested speaker because he or she is too "controversial," then red flags should fly. In the past, families have not been allowed to share information through the schools about educational matters, and books have been banned or even burned to keep "the public" in the dark. Although our country holds great value in "freedom of speech," speakers as well as books continue to be banned from some public schools. Books have been written about these bannings, such as

Banned in the U.S.A. : a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries by Herbert N. Foerstel

What can you do? Parents should "get the word out" to other parents to help work with their school boards to direct their school administrations to have written policies regarding oversight of the flow of information available to parents and children in their school districts. After all, school boards are supposed to be representatives of the families in their communities.

Thursday, October 4
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Tuesday, Sept. 25
Instead of always starting at the low-tech end of the technology continuum, we should ask what tools would give our students the closest approximation to the age peer’s access to the learning process, including speed of acquisition of knowledge, closest approximation to the output speed, quality of output, and independence of the student’s non-disabled peers.

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