{"id":17,"date":"2006-08-17T20:21:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T00:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/17\/itunes-for-law-students\/"},"modified":"2006-08-17T20:21:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T00:21:53","slug":"itunes-for-law-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2006\/08\/17\/itunes-for-law-students\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes for Law Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering through a law school gym, most people might only see stressed-out students burning calories to their favorite tunes. The founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audiocasefiles.com\/\">AudioCaseFiles.com<\/a>, which went live today, see a lost educational opportunity &#8212; and a potential business.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well-established in educational pyschology that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metamath.com\/lsweb\/fourls.htm\">different students learn differently<\/a> &#8212; some learn best through reading, and others through hands-on activities. AudioCaseFiles targets the Auditory\/Verbal law student by providing MP3 readings of the legal canon, helping out students who learn best by eye-ear coordination. And the value that this service provides to blind students is obvious. At $.99 a pop &#8212; competitive with the latest Audioslave track on iTunes &#8212; I see these files spreading like Napster never sold out.<\/p>\n<p>When prepping for the SAT in high school, my partner before going to bed would listen to vocabulary definitions taped by her father. (SAT words are better than sheep numbers). I can easily imagine gunners aiming for a competitive edge by listening to cases in their spare time. As for slackers, well, better that they listen to the cases than not read them at all.<\/p>\n<p>(And as for MUVEs, I am guessing that the Tactile\/Kinesthetic learners will benefit the most from immersive, hands-on experiences in the virtual environment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering through a law school gym, most people might only see stressed-out students burning calories to their favorite tunes. The founders of AudioCaseFiles.com, which went live today, see a lost educational opportunity &#8212; and a potential business. It&#8217;s well-established in educational pyschology that different students learn differently &#8212; some learn best through reading, and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[870],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-pedagogy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}