Those iPods have turned out to be more popular and ubiquitous than anyone, Apple included, had ever imagined.  Just think, it wasn’t long ago that no one had any urge to carry around a bunch of digital files on a hard drive and call it music, but these days you’ll see 20 iPods or other MP3 players before you’ll see one Walkman.  You never saw someone with a portable TV, but you see people everywhere staring into the depths of their video iPod.

However, there’s more to the portable media phenomenon than simple entertainment on the go.  These devices we’re all so familiar with can actually be, gasp, educational if you have the right stuff to go along with it.

This list of 100 ways to use your iPod for education as well as entertainment highlights some of the best podcasts, audio books, and tutorials to do things like learn Spanish, learn bartending skills, prepare for the SATs, learn to cook, and even learn how to make your very own podcasts and video podcasts!  There’s also a very handy section for utilities to make using your iPod even more user friendly, with programs designed to sync your iPod to your Outlook for keeping track of notes and emails, find wifi hotspots, convert MP3s and YouTube clips into iPod-friendly formats, and dozens of other things that I honestly had no idea you could do with the iPod.

If you’re not currently in college, but looking to educate yourself, scroll down a little ways into the article and get to the section called iPod U.  Stanford, UCal Berkeley, MIT, New York University Law School, Yale, Harvard, Queen’s University, Northeastern, and Wellesley College all offer downloadable lectures, notes, and classes for the intellectually curious but fiscally deprived iPod owner.

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