Thing Six - iTouch Apps

Thanks for all the very thorough lists and links that share some creative apps that will certainly be useful to the student and teacher especially if they have their own iTouch. I found the Apple Learning Internchange webpage to be the most informative. This is the one new piece of mobile technology that I am having a difficult time seeing being used to its fullest capacity in the short time that students spend in the library, either on their own or with a class. I still see students using the iTouch in the library to work with Facebook, podcasts, digital books, wikis, nings and other internet related activities. For now I see it as a way to get students quick and spontaneous access to the internet when they don't need to print or get to the student server thus freeing up the desktop for other students who do. So 16 more students have internet access at any given time during the day. Maybe after all the summer activity we'll be able to create some definitive lists of iTouch activities that lend themselves solely to the time spent in the library. Right now what I stated above is about all I can think of, although if the technology were to be checked out to students, the list of possiblities would be endless. I am not advocating for checkout, just stating the facts.

We were successful at downloading a variety of aps to our new iTouches. "We" means I handed them over to my favorite patient and all knowing student assistants and they had no issues doing this. Since the iTouches are out of my possession for the summer, I will try again in August. You will not see me in the Apple store at the mall, maybe Marble Slab but not Apple.

As for the info on Wikipedia, I found the posting interesting and informative. Once again we will have to reteach and help teachers rethink the possibilities that this resource provides. I know that we were all a little skeptical at first, but by all accounts Wikipedia seems to have improved and become a valuable resource. Better get familiar with this and other free resources in case of database funding dries up...