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The Sound and Fury of iPods at Duke

“… it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.”

Macbeth, V,v,19

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What is the iPod Experiment? Provide all first year students with iPods

1600+ iPods, engraved, newest generation Loaner, extra iPods for courses Students keep iPods at end of first year

Cost and Credit Duke is an Apple Digital Campus Funds from special IT program initiative Cost publically estimated at $500,000

Why is Duke doing this?

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Why choose iPod? Cachet

State or Duke?

Cash, eh?

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What do you do with an iPod?

In the classroom?

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iPod Courses Coordinated by CIT

Support instructional technology

Coordinate support for courses and faculty

Fund iPod initiatives

Coordinate assessment

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CIT supports iPod Projects Improving learning by providing portable access

to course materials for reference and review Supporting collaborative learning by facilitating

storage and sharing of course-related materials among students and between students and instructors

Providing richer learning experiences through the integration of audio-based resources

Supporting undergraduate field research by providing a tool for recording interviews, sounds and verbal notes (an iPod recording module is required for this)

Reducing the time needed for course management by simplifying the delivery of audio materials

http://cit.duke.edu/about/ipod_cfp.do

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Who are the iPod Faculty? Lisa Huettel

Assistant POP Mike Gustafson

Lecturing Fellow Sally Schuman

Adjunct Professor Richard Lucic

Associate POP Michele Strano

Lecturing Fellow Lori Leachman

Professor of the Practice Lisa Merschel

Visiting Assistant Prof.

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Who are the iPod Faculty Peter McIsaac

Assistant Prof. German Anthony Kelley

Assistant Prof. Music Kerry McCarthy

Assistant Prof. Music Robert Zimmerman

Music

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How are iPods used in Courses? In Music and Language courses students

listen to audio Audio is accessible via blackboard, generally Duke has a special iTunes store

• Pretty worthless in terms of content, but it’s a first step

Possibility for different distribution mechanisms, e.g., podcasting

iPods useful as portable tape recorders Language classes Interviews and data-collection in the field

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EGR 53, Prof. Mike Gustafson

“Rather than spend any money buying signal generators, we could just use the free signal generators [i.e., the iPods] that Duke provides,” he said. Plus, he said, the music helps connect engineering principles to a familiar experience.”

Students pick ten seconds of a favorite song, stored on their iPods... They adjust the rate at which the computer takes in samples of sound, break out individual frequencies, boost and lower frequency ranges and scramble pitch and beat.

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EGR 53, Assessment "The addition of an iPod gives me a great,

common engineering marvel to explore while simultaneously teaching students computational methods as well as opening their eyes to some of the possible fields of study within engineering." ,

Mike Gustafson, Pratt Faculty Evaluation

To what extent do the hands-on lab activities enhance student understanding of important course concepts? Do these activities increase student motivation and interest?

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Music 65, Prof. Anthony Kelley"They're going to hear Bach-

style [music] the way they hear their own music," Kelley says about integrating the iPods into his course. "You sing along to the radio, why don't you sing along to Bach?”

“I want you on the bus singing with your iPod,” Kelley told the class. “I want you over Thanksgiving with turkey in your mouth, singing with your iPod.”

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Music 65, Evaluation

Evaluation Does access to portable course materials

in a music course have a measurable impact on student interaction with materials, motivation, engagement, and/or vocal performance skills?

Data Collection Student logs, instructor logs, end of

semester questionnaire, student work samples

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ISIS 100, Prof. Richard Lucic In order to capture and carry forward class

discussions begun by guest lecturers, Lucic records those classes with an iPod; then he posts the recordings on a class Web site for students to download and review on their computers or iPods.

“I downloaded the lectures from the [class Web site] and I put them on my iPod,” he said. “One of them I listened to while I was at work at the Provost’s office. I was upstairs in the attic doing some filing and I got to just listen to the lecture and take some notes.”

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ISIS 100, Evaluation

Evaluation To what extent does the integration of the

iPod promote student innovation and application of course concepts? Do students make effective use of audio technology in their course presentations?

Data Collection Student logs, instructor logs, end of

semester questionnaire, student work samples

Podcasting, model of future at Duke?

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Assessing Learning

Impact of iPods in courses Does providing every student with an iPod

fundamentally change teaching at Duke? What else could we do to change teaching?

Is a large hard drive that plays songs a fundamental shift in educational process? Even cynics will talk about it Any discussion about learning is useful?

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Necessary for Success

Seamless integration of audio in courses Duke iTunes has to work Podcasting and other RSS feeds in place Text easy to create and integrate

Text and Video, what’s coming? Integrating text into iPod seamlessly iPod photo offers lots of opportunities Is there motion in the future?