%0 Journal Article
%T The iPod Project: A Mobile Mini-Lab
%A Nikhil Sathe
%A J£¿rg Waltje
%J Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology
%D 2008
%I Kent State University
%X As a model project for innovative and engaging language instruction, the Language Resource Center (LRC) at Ohio University acquired a set of iPods (24 for a full class) equipped with iTalk Recorder Plugins. We loaned these iPods out to language instructors and their students who then used them as completely mobile Mini-Labs for a variety of projects. The students were able to record themselves and other people (e.g. international students, native speakers), practice their speaking and listening skills, keep an oral diary, read into the iPod, or create podcasts while on study abroad ¨C all this in their target language(s). Then, after syncing the iPod with one of the computers in the lab, students were supposed to post their recordings either to the LRC server, to their Blackboard class sites, or to email them directly to their instructor for evaluation or for the whole class to share. With the iPods our students gained additional opportunities to become more actively engaged and independent in their language learning process. This article will report in detail on our project, its transferability to other learning environments, and the feedback we have received from surveying more than 120 students and their instructors about their language-learning habits.
%K iPods
%K Language Instruction
%K Mobile Learning
%U http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/article/view/24/31