I have added considerable documentation to this site in the last couple of days. In addition, I spent 3 hours with Duncan Sanford, Iskandar Aminov and Pascal Maharjan (students who will be working in the Wilson Media Lab this summer) going over iPod set up workflow and generally transmitting to them as much as I could about iPods for 2nd language acquisition.
Duncan, Iskandar and Pascal are now prepared to take over loading the iPods with the thousands of audio files that will be used this summer. In addition, they should be able to troubleshoot problems with iPods in the context of the Wilson Media Lab.
In the summer of 2005, the Middlebury College Language Schools experimented with iPods the Chinese and Russian Schools. Pilot programs were set up for 1st year Chinese students and for 1st and 2nd year Russian students. As well, students in 3rd year Spanish used iPods for selected projects.