iTunes University

The iTunes University is a great resource for both teachers and students. This allows students to become more interactive in the class. Students are able to come from behind the desk and explore the many aspects of the iTunes University. Apple iTunes allows for teachers and students to have access to information no matter where they are. The iTunes University allows teachers to teach a lesson swiftly and effectively to their students. Everything has become digital, and it is great that Apple has introduced these new ideas for people to access in the classroom.

Everywhere you go someone has an iPod or some kind of device stuck in their ear. I think Apple's idea with the iTunes University is great because the teachers and students can be connected with a common factor......the ipod. I would have never thought in a million years that musical devices would be allowed in a classroom. This is so cool!!!!!!! Technology has grown so much through the years that just about everyone is able to use some kind of technological device.

Many schools around the United States use the iTunes University to allow the students to view their class lectures if they miss something. Schools such as Duke University give their freshman students ipods their first year at the university. Can you believe that!!! It allows for students to record lectures if they want to go back to it if they missed something during class. Apple also allows for other people to view the lectures if they need to acquire helpful information. Apple is a reliable source and many people take advantage of the opportunities that Apple offers to the people. Anyone can download a lecture and listen to it from the iTunes University.

I think this is so great what Apple is doing. They are providing students and teachers with valuable information that can be downloaded and reviewed by the students and other patrons of the website. I wish I had thought of this BRILLIANT IDEA!!! I could have been rich by now!!!! LOL!!! I think this iTunes University will be around for a while because it is a great tool to have for both teachers and students.

iPods in Instruction???????

When I first read what we had to do for this assignment I couldn't believe that teachers actually used iPods for instruction. Who ever would have thought the day would come when students could listen to an iPod an not go to the principals office for it. Go figure!!!! But I searched the internet and found places all over the world that allowed iPods in the classroom for instructional purposes. This was so cool I wished that when I was growing up that we could bring an iPod to school and not have to hide it from the teacher. I tell you these kids have it made!!!! LOL!!!!

I ran across a school in Des Moines Iowa that allowed the students to have iPods that were used for students had reading disablities. A teacher named Sandi Rankin came up with the idea for students to listening to the iPod with their reading assignments programmed into the iPod. The iPod allows for a student to perform a test and reading assignments at their own pace. This is such an exciting idea. I never new that iPods would be a useful tool in the classroom. This was such a great idea for those students who fall behind their peers in school. The iPod allows for them to work at a steady pace and catch up with their peers.

At Duke University freshman students are given free iPods to use for instruction in the classroom. Students are encouraged to use them in the classroom as tool for learning and enhancing skills. Students are allowed to record lectures made by professors. This brings a interactive environment into the classroom. What student at Duke University wouldn't love a free iPod.

I think Duke University is own the right track with their students. What better way to get the students involved. They are doing something right because everywhere you turn someone has something stuck in their ears. This is a great idea and I hope it carries on to all schools across the country. This will allow the students to learn more information and retain it better. You can hear a professors lecture over and over again and want miss a thing they said. This will bridge the gap between education and online media based technology. This is a new age and technology is moving in the classroom. So check out this website about Duke University and what they are doing for their students: http://dukedigitalinitiative.duke.edu/

Exploration of Dr. Christie's Website

When I visited the site I thought it was such a great website to use once I became a teacher. It was filled with useful information on ways to incorporate technology in my classroom. Dr. Christie was an educator for forty years and I have to believe that she gained alot of knowledge in those years. She worked with a variety of students and this enabled her to create the website. The website is filled with tools that will allow students to become interactive in the classroom.

Dr. Christie in her bio says that technology can enchance teaching and learning skills to everyone in the classroom. Also reading the excerpt of her last lecture I could tell that there were mixed emotions in her last lecture they should would ever give. It shows that she was devoted to the well being of all people and students who came in contact with her. If she could help she would try her best to help. I want to be a teacher like that. I want to make a difference in the lives of all the children that come into my classroom. I want to instill in all of my students a well to do attitude about learning and also life.


Dr. Christie's Technology Guide is filled with things I will definitely bring into my classroom. There are so many helpful ideas that will make learning fun for me as a teacher and also my students. I didn't know that technology could be used in so many different ways in the classroom. I found this website to be helpful to any kind of teacher. I was intrigued by the digital media and photography resource that could be a guide for art teachers that incorporate digital cameras in the classroom. Dr. Christie basically lays out everything that a teacher could possibly run into in any classroom.

I will definitely refer back to Dr. Christie's website because I know that it will be helpful to me as a new teacher. I am so glad that I explored her website because it is filled will new and exciting information that I can use in my classroom. The website is applicable for any grade level K-12. How could a teacher go wrong with a laid out plan that Dr. Christie has created. If you are a teacher who needs some extra help in your classroom check out Dr. Alice Christie's website: http://www.alicechristie.org

Exploration of Dr. Christie

Blog Wikipedia

I found the blog on wikipedia to be quite interesting. I didn't know at first that all the things on wikipedia were not true. I thought the information on the website came from reliable sources. But I was wrong!!! The wikipedia website is edited by the people that put the information on the website. And it was interesting to know that major corporations such as Walmart and Exxon Mobil change and edit the information on wikipedia all the time. So you never know if the information you are getting is actually factual. I don't see how a major corporation can just go to wikipedia and change the information to make them look like a great company when they can just go in and twist the facts for their benefit.

As Americans will we ever know the truth about these major corporations that post their information on such sites as wikipedia. Well I guess we can't believe everything we read on the internet. I have learned that Wikipedia should not be the only site you visit to find reliable resources.

Wikipedia is just basically an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who sees fit to edit the information. That is so lame. How in the world can a website that claims to be a free reliable source be edited by anyone who sees fit to edit the information? This does not make sense to me!!!!!! I need some answers because there will be many people out in the world who have not been informed of the wikipedia dilemma. Which is: YOU CAN NOT TRUST WIKIPEDIA!!!!! I want to know what a kid will do if you finds this wikipedia site which I know they will and they don't know any better to search another site and they get a book report that is totally not factual that child is going to wonder what went wrong.


The podcast about Virgil Griffith's Wikipedia Scanner was very interesting. I was amazed when they said that it is not illegal to edit the information on wikipedia. People can edit the information anonymously if they don't want people to know who they are. Griffith's wikipedia scanner was able to find out who changed the information and when by tracing the IP address of the computer. I think Griffith's idea was great. And it puts people who doctor the information on wikipedia on alert and may stop some from changing the information that is put on wikipedia. But there will always be ins and outs to any situation. These people who change the information on wikipedia will think of ways to manipulate the information without being traced. But when I listened to the podcast it said that it may make wikipedia better in the future. So I guess we all will just have to wait until that day comes.