Came across an interesting report in CIO in which Abilene Christian University offered all its incoming Freshman a choice of iPhone or iPod Touch. One rather interesting detail is the pivotal role of an English professor in helping this project become a reality. Apparently inspired by the pedagogical possibilities, he wrote a 40-page white paper on what he and others thought a campus populated with students and faculty who all had iPhone-like-devices would look like. Also kind of interesting is that ACU uses Google to power its webmail and calendar services; similarly, these are the two most popular uses that these lucky, first-year students are using their iPhones or iPod Touches for.