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__The "NEW" Media__ -** Presented by Rob Gordon, NUES - (Suki) Ever listened to a podcast? Been to iTunes U? Familiar with iTunes? Well...this guy calls iTunes the "new" media for education because of the enormity of resources for the classroom. iTunes is a free program that can be downloaded from [|www.apple.com] for both Mac and PC AND you don't even have to have an iPod to use it (though it's really nice and rather convenient TO have one).
 * Session 3

When you go to the iTunes Store, which is not really a store, more of a storage place, though you can purchase music and movie tracks, select Podcasts and then a category that you wish to explore. Education has innumerable resources for classroom content and in almost any curricular area.

Want to take an MIT course, but just can't muster the funds for the tuition or the cost of commuting, not to mention the fact that being accepted to MIT might be a slight challenge? Well... you can view any number of courses posted in iTunes U. The University of South Florida did a literacy project entitled Lit2Go. There are a hundred or more novels that have been converted to audio books, plus, when you click on the "lyrics" tab the text of the book will be displayed for kids to follow along.

There are so many resources available for teachers through iTunes, it's amazing! Here is his website with the listing of resources he highlighted during his presentation: [].