Playing Songs/Videos from a different iPod device on my MacBook

Can my daughter connect her nano to my MacBook to watch videos without creating synching issues/confusion. I don't want content to be erased from her nano and I don't watch my iTunes library to be copied to her nano.
Help.

If you want to connect and use an iPod on more than one computer or with more than one library you need to change the update preference in the iPod Summary tab to "Manually manage music and videos" and click Apply. The content of iTunes and the iPod are not syncronised in this mode so the two can be different. You can directly access the content of the iPod and play it through iTunes and you can drag and drop whatever you want to the iPod from either library:
Using iPod with Multiple computers
Managing content manually on iPod and iPhone
Syncing Music to iPod
When you connect an iPod to a different computer that is set to sync automatically with a regularly used computer you get a warning message that it is linked to another library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc. In this case you should always press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod.
Something else to be aware of when using an iPod in manual mode is that the "Do Not Disconnect" message will remain on the display until you physically eject the device: Safely Disconnect IPod

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