Lastly, I want to talk about is iTunes you, of course, manager, and I'm just going to do a brief
introduction to this.
There's a lot that goes into it.
It's a really intuitive application.
It's available on the Web.
It's also available through the iTunes U.
Application or app on the iPad.
And you can do a lot with it.
I think it's a really neat instructional tool for you both on ground and online instruction.
So just going to go ahead and hit continue past this.
And the basic overview of iTunes, of course, manager is a listing of all of your courses that you're
currently teaching listed on the left hand side here, materials that are available for students that
are enrolled.
You can do live discussions and posts.
So it's not an Elm's.
Apple's always very quick to say iTunes using a learning management system.
It's not meant to replace Blackboard or, you know, any of the other Elam's solutions that are out
there, the popular ones.
But it does offer a lot of really cool things.
It's got some great integration on the iPad, especially if you're using iPad to teach with.
So I'm going to use this iPad orientation course that I've developed over the years and just basically
gives you a layout here of the course description.
All these things are editable, so you can edit your settings and you've got your ability to fill all
these things out.
And put an image and things like that in there, so we'll just say that we're not going to make any
changes.
You can add more than one instructor, so I'm the current instructor of the course, but I can add contributor's
so I can have a team of people developing the course monitor and of course, managing the course for
me and with me.
You build out your course outline, so you basically do this first and then it's just, you know, you
can copy and paste the outline of another application or you just enter directly in here.
You can rearrange it as needed.
And then when you get into actually building out your horse, you go into posts and you start to add
things.
So you have, for example, the first module, right?
So I've got this.
I can put my information in here, what the course is about, like an edit it here and then I can go
ahead and add different files.
I've got PowerPoint files, I've got videos, I have Web links that I can add.
I can start a discussion so I can have a discussion with the students in the course about what's happening
in this particular module.
And that can all be very interactive on the iPad.
You can do it.
I can be on my Mac, my students can be on their iPads and we can still interact with each other in
these discussions.
There's a checkbox of the students as they complete the course, they can check off each one of these
sections.
You can look at all posts, as I had shown before, they have everything basically laid out for them
here and then there's a great materials tab where you can just look through all the materials.
So we've got links to apps on the App Store that they should use for my course, links out to different
things on the Web.
Documents that I may have uploaded PDF and things like that, PowerPoint presentations.
And then videos that I've uploaded as well, whether those be demos, lectures or other things.
So if you're working on sort of that flipped classroom scenario, this is where you can record all of
your content and then make it available to students and then organize it into posts.
So I'm not going to go super in-depth into into iTunes course manager.
I just wanted to give you guys kind of an overview of what it is and what it can do.
It's it's a really cool tool.
And if you choose to implement it in your organization, definitely spend some time using it.
I'd recommend getting a couple of your more tech savvy faculty, early access to the tool and let them
see what they can do with it as well.
It's been well received in my organization and it's been a vital tool for a lot of the things we do
in the classroom.