[etni] Fw: MP players
- From: Nicole Oren <karen981@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:36:10 +0200
We, at Alon in Ramat Hasharon have been using MP3 players since the beginning
of this school year.
I convinced our principal that we would like to use technology the pupils are
more familiar with and the school purchased a certain number of MP3 players. We
got the computer technician to download Audacity onto a certain number of
computers at school and add a microphone. Then the English teachers learned how
to use the programme by trial and error. We record each exam onto the computer
using Audacity and then transfer the files onto the MP3 players before each
exam. The pupil's parents sign a form before each exam guaranteeing that they
will return the MP3 in working order. They use their own earphones. After each
exam the MP3 are returned to the person at school who is in charge of equipment
and he kindly charges them each time.
What are our conclusions regarding this system? The pupils love it. They are
far more familiar with this technology than with the cassettes we used to work
with. Also, we no longer have those annoying clicking noises during exams that
used to disturb the other pupils. However, for the teacher, the whole process
is far more complicated. We have become recording technicians and if you only
have a limited number of MP players and exams in different classes within days
of each other, this becomes a logistical nightmare. You have to erase the files
of one exam from the MP player and download the files from the next exam onto
it. And then there is the problem of the pupil who didn't sit for the exam when
it was scheduled and has to take the exam a few days later. In the meantime you
have already erased the file from the MP player and used it for someone else.
You have to go back to the computer on which you recorded the file and
re-download it.
I believe we will continue to use MP players for regular exams but on the day
of the Bagrut, it will be the pupils' responsibility to bring a discman. We
cannot turn our school into a recording studio on the day of the Bagrut. The
day is stressful enough as it is.
I wonder how other schools are managing now that there no longer are cassettes
on the Bagrut,
Nicole Oren
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