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Duke University Giving iPods To 1650 Freshmen

Posted by timothy on from the freshpeople dept.

baptiste writes "Duke University has entered into an agreement with Apple to distribute iPods to all of the incoming freshmen this year - that's 1650 iPods! This agreement is part of an initiative to "encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life" The iPods will have audio and text on them including special university content such as "faculty-provided course content, including language lessons, music, recorded lectures and audio books." Faculty will be assisted in creating new content for these devices by Duke's Center for Instructional Technology And here you thought iPods were just for music!"

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  1. Re:Man... by Winterblink · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    A bit offtopic here, but I have to say the 3G ones appeal to me more than the 4G ones. I much prefer the no moving parts version of the scrollwheel to the new clicky one. But that's just me ;)

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    "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
    -Hoban Washburn
  2. Re:Man... by skinfitz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have a 3G model which I bought a few months ago, but I have to say looking at the 4G, I'd rather keep the seperate buttons for play / pause and track forward / back, and interesting to see they have not used the 60Gb drive from Toshiba.

    There is in my opinion nothing physically wrong with the 3G model, however the biggest problem with the iPod in my opinion has still not been addressed and that is the missing ability to change playlists from the remote. I mean c'mon Apple - talk about obvious and how hard can it be??

  3. Overpriced. WAY overpriced by Animats · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Bought a DVD player today for $29.95 at Best Buy. Works fine. Plays DVD, video CD, audio CD, MP3, etc. PAL, NTSC, progressive scan, Dolby, S-VHS, etc. UL approved, and verified in the UL database.

    Now we're seeing what happens when the entire product and all its components come from a very low wage, but high tech, country.

    Somebody is going to eat the iPod for lunch, probably before xmas.

  4. Apple good, Microsoft bad by rbowen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's try an experiment. Tomorrow, post exactly the same story, but change the name of the college and change "Apple" to "Microsoft." See the comments change to condemnation of a big corporation using their false benevolence to coerce gullible Freshmen to buy their products.

    Or perhaps we could give the freshmen a coupon for a free download of a Linux distribution.

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    Apache guy, Open Source enthusiast, runner