As we expected, many more Language School students have their own iPods this summer. The French School now uses Reflets for their 1st year student and so we have made the audio for this textbook available for students to download to their iPods.  A growing number of our language media resources can now be downloaded and used on iPods and other mobile devices.

Our objective is to make language learning resources accessible to a variety of platforms enabling students to study from websites or download media files and study in media players such as iTunes and Windows Media Player or on mobile devices such as iPods.

Jin Zhang of the Chinese School will be having her 3rd year students produce their own podcasts again this summer.  As well, 1st year students in the Chinese and French School will be given audio recording assignments.  The workflow for completing audio recording assignments is still a bit cumbersome but students seem to be managing.  Here too, we are opting for providing support and documentation for multiple technologies.  Students can check out from our library circulation desk USB microphones, headsets with boom mic, iTalk voice recorders for iPods or Olympus digital voice recorders.  For courses with audio recording assignments, we have included instructions on the course site.