iPod Professor Delivers Lectures to Go
Contact: Wayne Ingalls, 581- 1990; Justin Hafford, 581-3173; George Manlove, 581-3756
ORONO – When you see Wayne Ingalls’ accounting students around the University of Maine campus with iPods and earphones, it’s entirely possible they’ll be doing their homework, not just listening to the latest music from John Mayer or Sheryl Crow.
Ingalls, a lecturer in the Maine Business School, has crossed the divide between entertainment technology and education. He has become one of the first college teachers to take his lectures to students, by creating a way for students to download audio-visual lectures to their computers and iPods.
In an informal recording studio in the basement of Chadbourne Hall, Ingalls scripted and video-taped lectures for Principles of Management Accounting and Principles of Financial Accounting, condensing 60-70 minute classes to succinct 35-minute “movies,” complete with real time sound, video and Power Point charts and graphs that automatically advance as his lectures progress.
“What I like about this is the lectures are concise,” Ingalls says. “I cover the same amount of material as in the classroom, there are no errors, and the students can get to it 24/7 from anywhere in the world, anywhere they can get access to the Internet, and they don’t even need the Internet.”
Students watching the lectures on the iPod Video’s 2