i-Pod Touch

After following what Nick Rate has been saying regarding the i-pod touch I thought it was time to purchase one myself and add my thoughts.

After only a week I have been blown away with the opportunities that it has for the classroom. The instant access to the Internet allows you to access information instantly along with sharing your own ideas.

I am amazed with the free applications, at present I have been using the skype application, TVNZ and many more. Unfortunately blogger does not match with word press, that I can work out, so it makes updating our blogs difficult. However the ease to upload photos and share on web is efficient.

I found it easy to set up email and now have instant access to work email. It has made me excited to see how the i-phone could be used in the classroom. With the camera and videoing functions, the constant access to call people, anytime access to the internet, to me it seems like the logical next step in the classroom. It raises this question in my mind, will we see the days of computers leave the classroom and hand held devices, such as i-phones and i-pod touches, revolutionise the classroom learning?

I am keen to use my i-pod touch in the classroom and see how the students repond to it. At the moment I am so hooked that I imagine that they will be to.