{"id":8614,"date":"2010-08-25T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2010-08-25T16:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:36:54","slug":"itunes-texas-education-channel-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/25\/itunes-texas-education-channel-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Texas education channel launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100825\/ap_on_hi_te\/us_texas_education_itunes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes Texas education channel launched <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from news.yahoo.com by Sarah Portlock<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">HOUSTON \u2013 Texas students can now download podcasts, videos and other multimedia lessons directly from iTunes through a new online program aimed at providing free, supplementary coursework that can be accessed anywhere, state officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The Texas Education iTunes U channel allows teachers to upload material from their classes to help students understand new concepts or do more research in a specific subject area. Students and parents can access the material through home or school computers, and those with iPods can download the information to the handheld devices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The state first met with Apple Inc. about three years ago. The governor&#8217;s office and the Texas Education Agency began working on the project in November, finding and culling existing teacher training videos and programs for students, said agency spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes Texas education channel launched &#8212; from news.yahoo.com by Sarah Portlock HOUSTON \u2013 Texas students can now download podcasts, videos and other multimedia lessons directly from iTunes through a new online program aimed at providing free, supplementary coursework that can be accessed anywhere, state officials announced Tuesday. The Texas Education iTunes U channel allows teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,286,32,46],"tags":[639,710,56,230,712,4],"class_list":["post-8614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-k-12-related","tag-apple","tag-digital-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-ipod","tag-itunes-u","tag-k-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}