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Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Going to class? Don’t forget your iPod
I just discovered another MSM education blog that I didn’t know about. It’s called Campus Watch, written by Greg Esposito and recently joined by Amy Kovac, two education reporters at the Roanoke Times in Virginia.
Kovac, one of my education writer pals, recently wrote about Radford University in Virginia and how the music department now REQUIRES students to bring iPod’s to class. Not just any MP3 player, they want the Apple-brand iPod. And they prefer the big $269 model, not the stripped down (and cheaper) iPod shuffle, mini or nano. (I have the iPod Mini, which works great for my purposes — a daily three-mile run).
A professor tells Kovac the cost shouldn’t be a burden since it’s not much more than what college students often pay for textbooks. Any thoughts on this requirement? Anyone heard of Ohio colleges that have done the same?
BTW, Campus Watch now makes eight MSM edublogs that I know about, counting myself and the fairly new addition of the LA Times’ School Me! blog along with these earlier arrivals in the MSM edusphere.
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