June 16, 2005

Alex Chapin (with the help of Duncan Sanford, Iskandar Aminov and Pascal Maharjan) did 3 iPod orientation sessions to students in the Chinese and Russian Schools.  For the Russian School iPod orientations, he focussed on how to connect iPods to computers, how to update playlists and how to add new audio files to the iPod.  It was pointed out later that it would have been good to have also shown people how to use the iPod itself. 

Thus for the Chinese School orientation, Alex began with showing students how to use iPods, how to navigate to audio tracks by artist and by playlist and how to rate audio tracks on the iPod.  Following this, he discussed how to use iTunes in general and how to create smart playlists.  Since there were more students than workstations at this orientation, only a few students actually connected their iPods to computers.