June 15, 2005
Selected students and faculty in the Middlebury College Chinese and Russian Schools received iPods preloaded with their summer study material as part of an iPods and 2nd language acquisition pilot project. Alex Chapin will be presenting the results of this pilot at the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL) 2005 annual conference this November
June 10, 2005
The Segue and Harmoni projects are now listed on the Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I.) project site.
May 31, 2005
Harmoni and Segue developers meet with developers of the NITLE Semantic Search Engine to discuss ways in which semantic searching functionality could be integrated into Segue and its associated systems.
A website has been created for the Collaborative Development Lab (CodeLab) located in Library 132, see:
https://segue.middlebury.edu/resolver/segue1/site/codelab
This site is describes some of the projects currently under development there including the Harmoni application framework and the Segue Collaborative Learning System (CLS).
March 6-8, 2005
Shel Sax, Alex Chapin, Dave Guertin and Adam Franco as well as others from Middlebury attended the 2005 Nercomp annual conference in Worcester, MA.
Shel and Dave Donahue lead a session entitled IT-Library Merger: Part II (an Update). Alex and Adam did a session entitled Building Institutional Repositories from the Bottom Up.
February 4, 2005
Kyoko Davis has added nearly 600 new vocabulary items into the Japanese version of StudyDB. This lexical database now has nearly 3000 lexical items.
February 3, 2005
The Spanish Department used the Measure (aka MOTS) assessment management system to delivery Spanish listening and reading comprehension placement tests to incoming February first year students.
January 29, 2005
iPods are popular MP3 players made by Apple Computers. While these devices are used primarily for collecting and playing digital music, they can also be very effective tools for second language acquisition.
For more information, see:
https://segue.middlebury.edu/resolver/segue1/site/achapin-ipod
November 17, 2004“Voyage to Ithaka” is the second national conference sponsored by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and was attended by over 270 presidents, deans, provosts, CIOs, librarians, faculty, and other administrators and included sessions that showcased various programs and projects sponsored by NITLE and its three regional centers. Ithaka refers to the newly formed not-for-profit organization that is seeking to provide resources to various smaller organizations (such as NITLE). Attendees from Middlebury College included Barbara Doyle-Wilch, Barbara Ganley and Alex More 
November 3, 2004
Jason Chance has developed an assessment for Information Desk staff using the Middlebury Online Testing Site (MOTS). This will help staff assess their knowledge of Library and Information Services.