June 22, 2005

70 iPods have now been distributed to Language School faculty, staff and students as follows:
Chinese School – 34
Russian School – 34

We have not yet distributed iPods to Level IV Russian students as originally planned because the Russian School enrolment numbers were higher than anticipated.  As well, we are working with the Level IV instructor to prepare her material for iPod delivery. 

For the most part the distribution of iPods was relatively smooth.  The primary challenge for the Circulation Desk was creating records of the loan for students who had not yet received their college ID cards.  In these instances, a photo ID was used to verify a student’s identity.

All LS students and faculty who received iPods signed a User Agreement that was modeled on the College’s laptop user agreement.  In addition, LS students and faculty signed a Metadata Release Form that stated they would agree to let us use metadata that we plan to extract from the iPods and aggregate for research purposes.