To Albemarle Public Schools technology chief Luvelle Brown, the iPod Touchs he introduced in classrooms two years ago aren't just music players. They're textbooks, notebooks, tape recorders, video screens, and neatly self-contained digital classrooms-- all in the palms of student hands.The "aha" moment literally snuck up on IdaMae Craddock. It crept quietly as she allowed a seemingly harmless Trojan horse through the gates of her advanced English class at Monticello High School. It arrived in the form of a few dozen 4-inch-by-2-inch, black-and-silver electronic boxes: iPods.

"I was blown away," Craddock says, recalling the lesson a few months ago when Homer's famous story the world's most famous sneak attack came to life on tiny screens of her students' school-issued iPod Touchs.

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