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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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CALICO 2005 Annual Conference

July 2, 2005 by
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May 19-22, 2005

Alex Chapin did a presentation on Segue as a multilingual course management system at the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortuim (CALICO) Conference the the Michegan State University in East Lansing, MI.

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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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Japanese Vocabulary

February 4, 2005 by
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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.

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Spanish Placement Testing

February 3, 2005 by
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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.

 

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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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