Last Thursday a friend handed over an old ipod g3 i think not sure, her ipod was bricked and wont even wanted to charge, so i just went and repaired it, but as i saw the main menu, it automatically reminded me of old conversations about mobility and learning.Gabriel Kent, the guys at restate media and I have had long chats on education innovation based on personal devices, from booting up a complete linux distro specifically booted from a player to creating a complete personal information enhancer and interaction device.Currently we have only built prototypes based on free software but we are still missing a lot of ideas on the content side, providing tools for learning is one thing, but it seems that public schools often forget that we can just forget about delivering content to any media (preferably we should make it open content).So i just went ahead and think how could we empower common users to produce and share content, since i had an ipod in my hands, there’s where i explored first. There are a lot of tools out there to do common tasks such as podcasting and vidcastings u didn’t placed too much importance on those, rather i compiled a list of more uncommon activities such and books notes and publishing. this list is by no means complete, but i hope it helps as a good start to learn how to create content for iPods

HTML

If you are the kind of guy (gal) that likes good old handmade crafts, you can also go ahead and create simple html content using ipod specific tags, Make Magazine has a good tutorial on how to.

Mogopop

You can think of it as a social network for sharing and creating ipodMogopop is a free web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish and download multimedia content for iPod. This content that can incorporate audio, video, pictures, podcasts, text – whatever our members’ minds can imagine, they can create. Mogopop downloads are like mini-Websites for iPod that anyone can enjoy.

iPod notes for mac

iPod Notes is a freeware application for Mac OS X made to manage the notes of your iPod. iPod Notes let’s you create and organize any note you want to have in your iPod. You can paste text in, drag text from other applications, drop it as a text file from the Finder or, of course, write it yourself with the keyboard of your Mac.

Backpack.

The free learning tool for Mac and Windows. Backpack 2.0 comes with many features. The most important is Share: an online collection of lists that can be downloaded or uploaded from Backpack. So, before you start entering an entire list manually, it might be a good idea to see if someone else has already uploaded it to Share? It could save you a lot of time and effort! Backpack has another feature which lets you see how many times you got your answers right (or wrong). Words can also be marked with labels, for example: to highlight the difference between nouns and adjectives. Another handy feature is iPod export: you can export lists to your iPod to learn words when you’re away from your computer.

iQuiz Maker

iQuiz Maker is an easy way for you to create custom quizzes for the iQuiz game for the iPod. iQuiz Maker works seamlessly so you can write, create, package your very own quizzes. Download the free application today to begin putting the world to the test.

VODcaster

Free Quick and Easy Publishing You can now record videos directly into VODcaster! It will automatically encode them in iPod format (320×240) using h.264 and AAC. You can still quickly drag-and-drop audio and video files, and create podcasts and vodcasts to share.

Podcast Maker

Create your content the way you usually do: with GarageBand, Audio Hijack Pro, QuickTime Pro, etc. Then drag in your content into Podcast Maker. You can drag files directly in from iTunes and iPhoto. You can even import files that are already out on the web. As long as it’s a podcast friendly format (mp3, m4a, mov, mp4, m4v, pdf) Podcast Maker will podcast it.

iWriter

iWriter is a desktop application that enables people to create ipod applications such as quizzes books and notes.

iDive

Complete video production for ipod, With iDiveyou can generate content for your iPod with your own video data.iDive generates 320×240 MPEG-4 data upon export, and sends the produced movies directly to iTunes. All it then takes, is to connect your iPod for synchronization and your videos captured in iDive will be transfered for viewing on your iPod

myNotes

MyNote The easiest note manager for the Mac.Create, organize and share notes and clippings, keep to-do lists or write a book with myNotes. Work with notes like you never have before. oh and you can use its content with ipod

iDictionary

iDictionary is a Mac OS X application that allows you to create a custom dictionary and/or thesaurus for your iPod, and easily put it on your iPod. iDictionary leverages the built in dictionary available with OS X 10.4 along with some very smart filtering and optimization techniques to create a dictionary or thesaurus that will fit on an iPod