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CALICO 2007 Annual Conference

June 1, 2007 by
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I gave a presentation at the 2007 Calico annual conference at Texas State University on the use of iPods at the Middlebury College summer Language Schools, see: iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition.

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ACTFL Conference

November 21, 2005 by
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November 21, 2005

I have yet another presentation on iPod in education, this time focusing on iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition at the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL) annual conference in Baltimore.

(The iPods in Education site now contains podcasts from 4 different presentations I gave on iPods including a presentation to Language Schools directors, presentations at a NERCOMP SIG on Emerging Technologies, a Podcasting seminar at the CET, and most recently the audio from my ACTFL presentation)

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NITLE seminar on Podcasting

November 11, 2005 by
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November 11, 2005

I gave a presentation on iPods and podcasting at a seminar on podcasting at the Center for Educational Technology in Middlebury. Other presenters included Bryan Alexander, the NITLE Director of Emerging Technologies, Mark Pearson from Earlham College, James Fadden from Allegheny College and Barbara Ganley from Middlebury.

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Nercomp SIG: Emerging Trends and Technologies

October 28, 2005 by
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October 28, 2005Shel
Sax and I gave a short presentation on iPods at Middlebury yesterday at
a Nercomp Special Interest Group (SIG) conference in Bolton MA
organized by Shel and Bryan Alexander. Have added slides of my
presentation to my iPods in Education
site. Shel discussed the logistics and assessment of the Language
School iPod Pilot project. Dave Guertin showed some of his work in scientific visualization and Bryan Alexander touched on all sorts of emerging technologies a few of which he has included in his presentation site.

Others presenters include Brian Lamb
from who has been promoting MovableType blogs to faculty and students
at the University of British Columbia and has developed an interesting tool for aggregating RSS feeds and Joel Foreman from George Mason University discussed gaming, particularly MMOGs and how these could be used in education.
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iPods in Middlebury Language Schools

June 15, 2005 by
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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

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iPods for 2nd Language Acquisition

January 29, 2005 by
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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
 

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