I've decided to write how we use our mp3 player for school.  I purchased a Creative Zen V from Audible.com with some birthday money I received in May.  With it, I got a $50 gift certificate to audible to purchase and download audio books.  They had a deal going at the time (don't know if it still going on) where the first 3 months were $7.99 and included a free audiobook download.

One of my homeschool yahoo groups has quite a few technologically savvy people on it, and they've been using ipods and mp3s to supplement and expand their homeschool.  Here's how our mp3 works for us.

Latin:  I've transferred our Prima Latina audio CD to the Zen so that we can take our Latin prayers and vocabulary with us.

Memorization:  The Zen V has a microphone so you can record yourself!  This is a great tool for us with poetry memorization, as I just record myself reading aloud our current memorization passage (We're working on True Nobility by Edgar Guest right now instead of FLL3's first poem, The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson).  I've also got our Bible verses on there, too. So, when Hugs gets to the point in his day when we work on memorization, he grabs the Zen, goes to the "Memorization" playlist and listens to the tracks that he's supposed to.  I've decided to keep our previously memorized verses in this playlist so that we can review easily.

     I'm also going to be adding songs from our Geography CD to the memorization playlist, but that won't hit full gear until after Thanksgiving;  we've got the period of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas to do a big geography review.

Read-Alouds:  On our vacation this summer we listened to Because of Winn-Dixie.  There are also tons of other online places to get audiobooks.  In My list of friends' blogs, look for ltjewel;  she has written tons of reviews and has links for Ipod School.

Car School:  I've found a couple fun podcasts that would be very apporpriate for middle to high schoolers:  Grammar Girl, who produces a great 5 minute podcast on improving grammar skills, and Princeton Review's Vocabulary Minute.  The Vocab. Minute podcasts I've listened to would be excellent for students as they prepare for their SATs!  I have put several of them on our player, primarily for discussion starters with Hugs about our Latin (I try to pick and chose ones that have a Latin focus).

     Check your library for their audio books and online audio book downloads. Our library just added this online feature, and they have LOTS of great audio downloads for language learning -- for adults and kids!