building our audio collection this year, and she is going with a device
called a PlayAway. She was faced with all of the same questions about what
is the best for the future, but did not have an existing collection to
worry about. These Playaways are self contained audio books and players.
There is no worrying about what form is best or any worry about students
who do not have access to an iPod.
Thanks,
Michele Gutierrez
Lower School Technology Coordinator
Lower School Diversity Coordinator
Durham Academy Lower School
3501 Ridge Road
Durham, NC 27705
http://academics.da.org/lowerschool/
A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes:
>Our school library is a bit different than most. Due to our population
>(all LD students) we offer our students a "reading library". We have many
>fiction books, as all students are required to do nightly reading, and
>about 1200 books on tape. Over the course of the last couple of years we
>are trying to move away from books on audio tape to books on CD, since
>nobody has a cassette player anymore! We have been converting the
>cassette tapes to CDs. Of course now we are starting to think about how
>we can offer these books to our students that have iPods, which if it's
>anything like your school, it's most of the kids! I don't know if we
>should be converting these CDs to digital audio and putting them on some
>kind of server for them to download, or if we should then podcast them
>some way. The idea is for kids to be able to listen and read along at
>home. I'm sure CD players will go the way of cassette players soon and we
>want to be prepared. I would welcome any thoughts, suggestions or
>experiences with this issue. Thanks.
>
>:) Laurie
>
>Laurie Yalem
>Technology Coordinator
>Churchill Center & School for Learning Disabilities
>1021 Municipal Center Dr.
>Town & Country, MO 63131
>314-997-4343
>lyalem@churchillstl.org
>www.churchillstl.org
>
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