Pod People Infiltrate Georgia College
Notice a lost look on the students' faces? Check for earphones: they may just be enrolled in "Gothic Imagination" or "War, Politics & Shakespeare," for which they were issued individual iPods stocked with captivating musical resources to accompany their course readings.

Apple Computer donated 50 of the popular music storage & playback devices to Georgia College & State University (located in Milledgeville) in an experimental project to devise creative new ways to use iPods.

A team of professors knew exactly what they wanted to do with them. Their cross-disciplinary courses look at issues from multiple perspectives, using multiple media, but music had always been very difficult to incorporate.

With the help of the iPod, however, it was a simple matter to provide every student with, for example, 5 gigabytes of musical materials as study aids for the "Gothic Imagination" course. The iPods were pre-loaded with the entire course's "play list," which the students could access at their convenience at the right point in the syllabus.

Student and faculty participants alike are giving the experiment a thumbs-up.

Read news coverage on the project from the BBC and MacWorld

Explore the course "Gothic Imagination", including the playlist

Explore the course "Ethics and Society," which will use the iPods next

Visit Georgia College and State University

Find out more about Apple's iPod device