Downloading multimedia content

Classroom applications

By downloading content in iPod format, instructors and students alike can use the iPod to great advantage for their classes. You can download review student- and instructor-created digital audio and images at your convenience.  You can sort the material into folders and playlists using iTunes and your computer and keep it organized when you load it onto your iPod.  You can also hook up the iPod, using a separate AV cable, to your television set or stereo at home for viewing or listening, or you can connect to the AV systems available in many Duke classrooms to use iPod content during in-class discussions, presentations and review. If your course includes the use of images for analysis and study, they can be downloaded and viewed on the iPod.  The images can be divided into folders and viewed as a set or slideshow on the device.  These could include PowerPoint presentations where the slides have been saved as a series of JPEG files.  Images can be managed using iPhoto on the Mac, Photoshop Album Starter Edition for Windows, or you can simply set up folders containing images on your computer and set iTunes to sync them to the iPod for viewing on the device.

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