putting them in ziplock bags that students had to check out, and we've
tried hanging them on 3M hooks stuck to the side of the computers.
Until this year, we've always gone with lightweight, inexpensive
headphones that have long cables, with the result that they fall on
the floor and get stepped on, kids trip over the cables, or the
headphones simply break under rough treatment.
This year we're trying a different tack. We bought substantially
bigger headphones (although still inexpensive) that have coiled cables
that don't go all the way down to the floor. We hung them to the back
of our flat-screen iMacs with over-the-door hooks that are attached to
the computer with velcro tape. The headphones are big enough that
they won't get accidently stepped on, and we hope they'll last a bit
longer than previous ones. We used these hooks from the container
store, and here's a photo of our setup.
Thus far the middle-school students have been good about hanging up
the headphones after use. A couple of pairs disappeared from our high
school lab, so the rest have been zip-tied to the computer
(headphones, not students). I'll let you know at the end of the year
how this setup held up.
Hope this helps,
- marty
--
Marty Billingsley
Department of Computer Science
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
>
> I bought hooks with heavy duty attaching "stuff" (can hold at least 20
> lbs)..found in the bathroom section at Wal-Mart, and attach them to
> the back
> of the monitor. That has worked out well. Perhaps do the the same
> for the
> cart and place the hooks on the side...or make an A frame display
> and attach
> hooks there..and that could be mounted on top of the cart.
> good luck
> Jeanne Rice
> Southern CT Hebrew Academy
> www.schacademy.org
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Renee Ramig
> <rramig@sevenhillsschool.org>wrote:
>
>> As we move into more and more multimedia (videos, podcasts, etc.),
>> there
>> is more need for headphones.
>>
>> Last year, I purchased one set of 20 headphones for each mobile
>> cart. I
>> stored them in a large plastic bin that stayed on top of the cart.
>>
>> This did not work out too well in that the headphones got easily
>> tangled, then as they tried to untangle them, they would break. On
>> top
>> of that, putting sweaty headphones into a plastic bin is gross. (I
>> am
>> borrowing this terminology from my middle school students.)
>>
>> This year we are complicating things by adding a foreign language
>> program that needs headphones with a built in microphone.
>>
>> How have all of you out there dealt with headphones? Where do you
>> store
>> them? How do you keep them from getting tangled and broken?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Renee Ramig
>> Seven Hills School
>>
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