Portable Video Player
What would you do in your classroom if you could hand out a video as easily as a book? Sooner or later it will happen, and to see what it might look like you can go to an article at the San Francisco Gate Online at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/02/BU204669.DTL. It’s about the Archos Video AV320, a handheld video player that has a 3.8 inch screen and a 20 or 40 gigabyte hard drive. The company’s own web page is at http://www.archos.com/products/av300_series.html?sid=j22o2s2jbyfoso2bocysfy, but I had trouble viewing it.
It’s not really set up for classroom use yet, but just wait a year or two and some educational company will be selling devices like it, along with access to content. Or giving the players free in return for signing up for their online educational video delivery system!