Conference

iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition
AcademiX 2009: Beyond the LMS: Innovations in Higher Ed Teaching and Scholarship
1:30 – 2:30 pm, March 26, 2009
rm 32-155
Ray and Maria Stata Center, MIT
Cambridge MA

Mobile media devices such as iPods introduce new ways to produce, organize and deliver language learning resources.  The Middlebury College Language Schools have edited and reformatted many of their existing audio and video collections to maximize their effectiveness on mobile devices, adding metadata so that lesson tracks are organized into albums, adding notes or transcripts that students can view while listening, as well as teaching students how to use ratings and smart playlists to track their learning.