Presentation given to SWALLT on March 12,2010

1. A Personal (iPod) Touch to Language Teaching and Learning SWALLT Online Presentation March 12, 2010 Enza Antenos-Conforti, PhD Montclair State University

2. iPods at Montclair State Spearheaded in Fall of 2009 Montclair State’s ESL program had previously piloted Mobile Assisted Language Learning (Susana Sotillo) 100 iPods were distributed to 4 professors My courses using iPodsFA09 (25 students)SP10 (40 students)Grammar & Composition I Intermediate Italian 1Advanced Italian Grammar *Grammar & Composition II

3. We are a society that is always on, hyper-connected Howard Rheingold, Smart Mobs (2002)

5. What does the classroom look like?

6. Where does learning take place? CC Krossbow (Flickr) Montclair State’s Amphitheatre

8. iPod Touch - Training Entire class time dedicated to training on iPod Touch and applications Email iTunes (Students are also invited to download other apps as they wish) Twitter (instructions sent in advance to create account) Learn10 (no app, but icon saved to iPod Home) Wordpress(instructions sent in advance to create account) Voice Memo (microphone given in class & tested)

9. iPod Touch - Language

10. In the language classroom SPRING 2010 FALL 2009

11. A Twitter backchannel in the FL classroom?

13. Google Earth

14. Exploring the destination 1 Google Earth

15. Exploring the destination 2 Google Earth

16. Learn 10

18. Vocabulary personalized to suit course needs

21. Grazie! Thanks! Great thanks to the following people who helped bring this project to life: Patricia Kahn for procuring the iPods Patrick Scoscia for training and the personalised iPod guide And a very special thanks for working with me in the Fall of 2009 and for cosponsoring my research Mike Robinson, Nicola Robinsonova and Learn10