iPod+Connections

= = =iPod Connections =

IF you want to sync all of your videos, then don't click on 'manually manage.' Instead go to your Movies tab for your iPod and sync the movies you want to have on your iPod. These will replace any movies you already have on your iPod.
 * Adding Videos to iTunes** - Download a video from United Streaming or use other video that you might have. Open iTunes, then drag the video into your iTunes library. Once it finishes importing, click on your Movies folder. You should see your video there. Double click on the name of the video to have the video play in its own window.
 * Putting Videos on Your iPod** - Now that your videos are in iTunes you will be able to add them to your iPod. Connect your iPod to your computer. If you only want to add one video to your existing videos on your iPod, you should select 'manually manage'. Select the video in your Movies library folder and pull down from Advanced on the menu bar to select "Convert selection for iPod." Then just drag the video from your Movies library folder and drag it onto your iPod. You'll find this option on the Summary screen when you first connect your iPod.


 * Voice Recordings** - just plug in your voice recorder. Start recording. These will be saved by the date and time. Sync your iPod with iTunes and they'll be downloaded into iTunes as voice memos. You can rename them in iTunes. Drag the memo from iTunes to Garage Band if you'd like to add jingles or music to it. Then share it back to iTunes. This can be used in a Keynote presentation or iMovie.

Keynote presentations can be saved for a wide variety of reasons: math problems, questions & answers over science or socail studies materials, to introduce a unit, to show how to write haiku or other poetry, on and on and on!
 * Keynotes saved as images** - Create a keynote presentation with very few words on a slide. You might try a presentation of vocabulary words. Put the definition on the first slide and the word on the second slide. Repeat this pattern. Save the presentation then export it out as images (File/Export). Save them into iPhoto into a vocabulary album. When you sync your iPod, choose the album called Vocabulary. These will be in your photos folder on your iPod. Students see the definition then try to guess the word. They can turn the scroll wheel to see the answer.


 * iQuiz** - download [|iQuiz Maker.] This software is very easy to use. Add groups - one group for each subject. Then start creating some quizzes within each group. These are automatically saved in your iTunes game folder. When you sync with your iPod the games will be automatically synced. The older generation iPods do NOT have iQuiz on them. It can be purchased for 99¢ through the iTunes Music Store. Your quizzes on iQuiz Maker can be shown to the entire class with the laptop and projector and/or synced to your iPod. You might even ask your students to write quizzes over a Social Studies chapter, spelling words, vocabulary, and much more! Go to the [|Apple website] for more information on iQuiz if needed.

[|Photo Sets]- These are awesome. If they don't happen to match your curriculum at least you can get some great ideas on how to create something similar.


 * Lyrics** - Listen to Tony's podcast #11 for the advantage to adding lyrics to audio files. Go to iTunes Musics Store and search through the podcasts for Learning in Hand.

Tony Vincent's [|Learning in Hand]has fabulous resources for using your iPod.

[|10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget]

[|iPrep Press] - find 10 of the most important documents in American History. Download these to the notes section of your iPod.