OK, let me see if I have this right. You connect your $299 iTV (out first of next year) to your classroom TV or increasingly ubiquitous classroom projector. Now you buy movies from the iTunes Music Store, download them directly into your computer, and you can play them to your class — through the air. Not that you would!
But would this work with YouTube or Google Video? Not that you would. But how about video podcasts? How about United Streaming. How about a teacher’s laptop that they use to collect and organize video content for their subject, attaching them to lesson plans or what ever they are using to manage their curriculum. Then to play the video or animation, you just send it through the air to your iTV. No DVD or VCR to operate. No calls to the library. No wires to string and connect. No crawling or begging.
No! Wait a minute. Students! Students playing their homework for class through the iTV. OMG!~
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Haha thank heavens–I remember my history prof from undergrad would ALWAYS have something go wrong whenever she tried to show us a video
David, You quit that thinking outside of the box. You are going to get us all in trouble.
Hi Dave,
You can already save YouTube movies to iTunes using a software package called tube sock. Then you would have an entire library of videos that you collect yourself and maintain in iTunes. Oh and you can allready share your iTunes playlist even with out a present wirless network…. You can share iTunes via the wirless cards in each laptop. hmmm too many thoughts here!!
Maybe I’m missing something here, but I’ve been downloading video from the net and showing it to my class via my projector for several years – except now there’s so much more video to download. If you are lucky enough to get to teach space science at your grade level, in fact, NASA alone must have hundreds if not thousands of downloadable videos on everything from the Challenger disaster to the latest stuff from Mars. Why would you need iTunes to do that?
What about content? The best quality video for instruction is not always available on YouTube. Certainly it may work well for current events etc. But the best photography and video is often only available commercially. We also seek video that includes vocabulary and other specifications of content that is highly targeted to the teaching and to the learning standards. While the concept is pretty cool – it may also be a case of “garbage in, garbage out”. I think people need to be aware of that.
Has anyone seen Bill Nye on YouTube?