Useful iTunesU Resources

Taking into consideration that many of my students are just hardwired for technology, I often choose resources that they may access via free applications on their iPhones or Droid phones and attachments to unit-based Bloggers.

 One higher level academic source I have learned to utilize is iTunesU.  In class, students, if able, can download the video, hook up their headphones, and listen to the presentation at their leisure while multi-tasking with other related assignments.  Once downloaded, iTunesU videos become mobile and easy to access in case students participate in sports, extra-curricular activities, or have a spare 30 minutes break from an after-school job.  Students will eventually learn to appreciate this as a tool for extra support, research endeavours, and entertainment in the future.


iTunesU offers varies categories to search recorded lectures perform in high-education forums or videos created to enhance a more rigorous curriculum; categories include but are not limited to arts, business, health, medicine, language, law, literature, mathematics, philosophy, science, society, and history.  iTunesU also offers a list of new and popular videos.







Example Videos
I use two videos as constant resources for my classroom- The Close Reading Cooperative and Fundamentals of Speech by Miami Dade College. With our standards changing to Common Core Standards in 2014, speech/presentation and researching informative texts has a larger role in the English Language Arts classroom.  Both of these sources serve as key components as I introduce explication and public speaking/ presenting.