Tracking metadata was extracted from all the iPods used in the Middlebury College Language School iPod Pilot Project and aggregated allowing us to see very accurately how students used the iPods….
Learning Communities
- study lists can be shared with a community of learners
- shared knowledge, preferences, study habits can be collaboratively filtered to discover “comprehensible peers” (Chapin, 2003) who can share “comprehensible input +1” (Krashen, 1989).
See:
http://www.musicmobs.com/
http://www.last.fm/
iTunes || Crescendo
Crescendo
(AKA StudyDB) is a knowlegebase management system we are developing for the core vocabularies of Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Arabic. Crescendo will import iTunes libaries and generate quizzes based on smart study lists.
Works Cited
Chapin, Alex. “Memory in the Information Age: New Tools for Second
Language Acquisition.” ADFL Bulletin, Winter
2003.
Krashen, S. We acquire vocabulary and spelling by reading: Additional evidence for the input hypothesis. The Modern Language Journal, 73, (1989): 440-464.