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Students Get iPods as Study Aids

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-gothic-imagination dept.

WIAKywbfatw writes "Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia has given iPod digital music players to its students to help them with their coursework, as reported by BBC News. Apple donated about 50 iPods as part of an experimental project to illustrate creative uses for the machine, and University professors say the gadgets have helped the students think more critically about their Gothic Imagination course." I wonder if I can write off my new iPod as an education expense.

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  1. Re:Time to go back to school by gpinzone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Carrot and apple is the shiznit!

  2. Re:Gothic Imagination by CptChipJew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ::cough:: -1 ::cough::

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  3. This is just great... by jmu1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I can't get bloody parts from ol' Apple, even if I go through our sales rep, Butch Casey. I'm in the University System of Georgia. Hell, I'm at Georgia Southern. I'd wager we have one of the larger Apple Labs in the region(which isn't saying much). But what really steams me is that we have to rely on Apple to send in a repair call to Savannah(which is an hour away from us) to a third party who then comes to fix what we could do in less than five minutes if they would get off of their damned high horse and send us the parts like say... Gateway!

    When I saw that this was a USG site getting iPods for 'school' use, I nearly had an embolism. I can't get parts to keep a lab(for real, honest work) but these chuckleheads get a GD mp3 player!

    Apple, I've told you this over the phone, and now I'm saying it in public: We are not buying from you again. I may love running my Mac at home, and I may love running a Mac lab, but your service has killed your company in the eyes of the institution I work for.