Hi Amy~
I would suggest a permission slip of sorts which contains an assumption of liability for the cost if the player is lost or stolen if that is going to be the policy of the school. We actually did not loan them out except to students where ...
as a part of a minigrant I was able to purchase 4 iPod nanos for my students to borrow...
I plan to load them with podcasts that I have created myself and/or downloaded from iTunes.
I'm sure you must have some advice...loaner agreements, contracts...
I've experimented with a couple of tools for creating enhanced Podcasts (narrated slides). I started originally with simply narrating Powerpoint slides, but the file sizes are too big for downloading. I am currently using Elluminate Live for webca...