Thursday, December 6, 2018

ITUNES U

What is iTunes U

iTunes U its a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, and audiobooks. An innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students. By sharing content on iTunes U, you can easily connect with students, peers, and the public.

iTunes U offers more than 800,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on thousands of subjects. The content comes from educational and cultural institutions.

Accessing iTunes U Course Manager

To access the iTunes U Course Manager:
1.Go to www.itunesu.itunes.apple.com
2.Enter your Apple ID (For example johndoe@me.com) OR create an Apple ID
if you do not have one. (Create Apple ID) (An Apple ID is a user name use for everything you do with Apple products.)

How Can I use iTunes U?

Academic content for a specific course or courses

Recordings of lecture or presentation series, guest speakers, or special events Recruitment materials

Promotional content for a college, department, research project, organization, or event

Training or informational materials

Artistic or dramatic performances

Community outreach.

Benefits of using iTunes U

iTunes supports audio, audio enhanced (audio with a slide show), video, PDF, and ePub content, including iBooks interactive textbooks.

iTunes software is designed to allow content to be downloaded to a user's personal computer or mobile device.

As an instructor you can feature a broad range of audio, video, books, and other educational materials along with your course syllabus, handouts, and quizzes and make the course and materials available quickly and easily to your students as an iTunes U course for the iTunes U app. You can upload materials from your computer or pull content and links from the Internet.

Free and easy to use

Sign in to Course Manager and create a Course

You need to sign in to iTunes U Course Manager to create your instructor profile, and create, edit, and organize your courses.

Sign in to Course Manager

You can create public and private courses.

By default, all courses created in Course Manager are private.

iTunes U Public Site Manager and the administrator will add the course to the institution’s iTunes U site.

View a video tutorial on how to create a course on iTunes U
iTunes U Course Manager is organized in three sections:

Info

Posts

Materials

Share Course

When you are ready to share your course, you can choose Enroll Code from the Settings pop-up menu in the dashboard to share a link to your course with students and other users.

Tip: You can also choose Enroll Code to copy and paste a course link into an email and then send the email to your own iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch) and preview and test your course from a student’s perspective before sharing the course with others.

For private courses, share the course enroll code with your students. Students request access by entering the code in the iTunes U app on an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch). After you approve a request, students can access the course using an Apple ID.

For private courses, when students access the link from an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch), they can tap the link to request access. After you approve a request, students can access the course using an Apple ID.

Download iTunes U

Download iTunes U for desktop
Download for iTunes iPhone/iPad
To download a course onto your mobile device, download the iTunes U app from the App Store, open app, click on "Catalog" on the upper right-hand corner, find a series you're interested in, and click "Subscribe". The content is then delivered directly to you, whether the course is a series of lectures, videos, PDFs, or an entire book.
After downloading the course content, you can process it however you wish. You can choose to learn at your own pace and decide whether to use your computer, iPad or iPhone.

Important Links

A Guide for Creating iTunes U Courses
Apple iTunes Information
Apple iTunes U Course Manager info
iTunes U Course Guidelines
iTunes U Support
Technical Requirements

Collaborate using iTunes U

Teachers can collaborate on course creation, management, and enrollment with up to five course contributors like department leads, teacher’s assistants, or district curriculum developers. You can also transfer your current course to another teacher, complete with the existing student enrollment. Or just offer inspiration by sharing a copy of your course - the outline, posts, assignments, and materials - to help others get started.

The best courses include a rich variety of content that inspires you and engages your students -from Multi-Touch books, news articles, documents and handouts to dynamic apps, videos, and websites. It’s easy to quickly add materials right from the iTunes U app. Or you can organize everything on your Mac, and upload from the web-based tool.

Customize the Learning Experience

Instructors can create and manage their course and students can experience it all from the iTunes U app on iPad.

Assignments, materials, and study notes all work together in the iTunes U app to keep students prepared for class and engaged in learning.Students can see homework assignments with due dates for all their courses from the home screen.

The iTunes U app lets students enroll in a course and download all of the materials they need when they are connected to Wi-Fi - which means learning and studying can happen anywhere, at anytime with just an iPad.

Students can access your course and materials (for example, lectures, books, documents, apps, web links) through the iTunes U app on their iOS devices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students can enroll or subscribe to courses, download materials, play video or audio lectures, read books, view presentations, and see a checklist of all assignments in one place.

Integrity (13 Characteristics)

13 Characteristics of People Who Have Integrity

1. They Value Other People's Time: They value their own time so they also value the time of other people. They know you have plenty of other places you need to be and won’t hold you up. If you spend time with them, it is likely they will thank you for that as well.

2. They Give Credit Where It Is Due: They do not take credit for things they did not do. They will always credit those who deserve it. If you help this person with a project he or she will likely mention your name so you can take credit for your work.

3. They Are Authentic: They are their truest forms. You won’t catch them in a lie or being fake.

4. They Are Always Honest: They are honest people that feel no need to lie as it is important for them to get to where they need to get in life honestly.

5. They Never Take Advantage Of Others: They are not the kind of people who will take advantage of someone else. They love to build people up and help them get where they need to be. Taking too much from someone else will never be an issue with someone who has a lot of integrity.

6. The Do Not Argue Over Disagreements: They will talk through things in a civil manner or not talk at all. You cannot and will not force this person into arguing over something completely ridiculous. I find this to be a very respectable trait.

7. They Give Most People The Benefit Of The Doubt: They try to see the good in everyone. I think this is because they feel like maybe there are more people in this world that also have integrity. That being said, if you take advantage of them too much they will get rid of you.

8. They Know When Something Is Bothering Someone: They have a great intuition that lets them know when something is going on. If someone is down in the dumps they will notice. Chances are they will actually do what they can to cheer you up.

9. They Believe In Others: They accept your word as truth until it is dis-proven. That being said, they do not take lying well. And once you lie to them, it is unlikely that they will ever take your word again.

10. They Apologize First: If they have done something wrong they will come to you and apologize. This is just how they are. They own up to their mistake and try to make things right.

11. They Are Humble: They do not quite know their own worth. While they are very important and do so much good they don’t quite see it. You should remind them of it.

12. They Do Good When They Can: They are always helping other people. They love to know that they have improved someone’s life. It gives their lives meaning.

13. They Are Always Kind To Those Who Need It: Giving kindness can go a long way. When someone looks like they need a little pick me up these people deliver. They can brighten up almost anyone’s day.

If you are someone who has true integrity, thank you for being who you are and thank you for all that you do. You really do actually make a difference in society, please keep up the good work. If you feel no one else is proud of you, know that I am.

Standards Analysis

Weekly Projects: Digital Photo Manipulation/Editing/Sharing

SELF-ASSESSMENTS

Student Self-Assessments refer to training students to evaluate themselves, and their work, for the purpose of improving outcomes. To become capable evaluators of their work, students must have:

- a clear target (goal)

- the opportunity to help create definitions of the quality of work.

- the opportunity to correct, or self-adjust, their work before turning it in.

Students are also prompted to reflect and evaluate strengths, weaknesses, and areas of improvement. These skills will allow for planning, improvement, goal-setting, and reflection. Emphasis will be placed on integration of previous learning across the school curriculum.

ISTE 2. Communication and Collaboration

Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others:

a. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats

3. Research and Information Fluency

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information:

a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry

b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media

General Computer-Based / Project Based Classroom Standards Met:

PA Common Core 8.5.6-8G: Integrate visual information (e.G. charts, graphs, maps, video, etc.) with other information in print or digital format.

ISTE 3.3A: Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information, and other resources, for intellectual and other pursuits.

ISTE 3.3D: Students build knowledge by actively exploring real world issues and problems, developing ideas, and pursuing answers and solutions.

CSTA Collaboration 1: Apply productivity/multimedia tools, and peripherals, to a group collaboration and support learning throughout the curriculum.

CSTA CPP1: Use advanced tools to create digital artifacts.

PA CEW Standards Met

PA 13.1.8A Career Awareness and Preparation

Relate careers to individual interest, abilities, and aptitudes.

PA 13.1.8G Create an individualized career plan including, but not limited to Assessments, Career Goals, individual interests and abilities, and Training/Education requirements.

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