iTunes U

Sadly, before this class I had never heard of iTunes U. It is a section of iTunes that can be extremely useful to students and teachers. It is full of educational materials from top universities around the United States. The best and brightest professors are uploading great content that anyone can look at for free. One thing I really like about iTunes U is the many different ways you can search to find what you want. You can search by university, you can search by category (business, science, ect.), or you can use iTunes search and filter the results so that just iTunes U results show up. Once the person finds what they are looking for they can download it to their iTunes program. They can also subcribe so that they get they automatically get new content.

There are many ways that iTunes U can be beneficial to studnets and teachers. First of all it incorporates different learning styles. A good amount of the content is just audio, but there are also a lot of videos that show demonstrations and other things. These demonstrations can be recreated in the classroom for the kinesthetic learners. Another great thing is that people can download these materials on to their ipod to take wherever they go. This is great for busy students who never know when they will have spare time to study. Also, I found out that there is not only college material available. There is a K-12 link that provides some great resources for K-12 teachers. One thing I found very helpful while learning about iTunes U was Apple's Introduction to iTunes U. It gave a great overview and showed me things that I may not have discovered on my own.