[etni] Re: CDs for the bagrut

Hi to Coby, and anyone else following this storyline!

I would like to share with you the nightmare taht we go through EVERY bagrut 
session/sitting, and reinforce Coby's plea for the ministry to wake up to the 
21st century.

This is what happens at Ma'ayan High School 3 times a year.....

When the bagrut exams arrive at the school from the bank, about 45 minutes 
before the first exams starts (Modules A, D and F), I "steal" the enormous bag 
of cassettes that have arrived, rip it open and grab one cassette of each 
module. I hop onto my bike (we are a kibbutz school) and zoom over to our 
English staff room, which has been converted into a recording studio for the 
day! I then start to download the casettes onto our computer, converting them 
to mp3 files, using a programme called Adobe Audition. I download them 
according to the order of the exams. Once the exam has been dowloaded, a fellow 
teacher is waiting on another computer for the signal....... to start uploading 
them onto the mps or discs which have been prepared in advance according to 
modules. The whole process takes about 2 hours, without any breaks.... for 
whatever. Obviously the pressure is to get Module F, D and A ready. Module A is 
particularly long. I forgot to mention that while
 downloading the cassettes onto the computer I "make tracks", saving after 
certain parts of the test, which also takes time.

I wonder why I have to do all of this. Obviously I don't get to LOOK at any of 
the exams till the following day, but I do HEAR them! Why can't the ministry 
just send the schools prerecorded files? Is that too much to ask? Additionally, 
how do I get onto the privaleged list of receiving discs as opposed to 
cassettes? 

Finally, we have accumalated ALL modules on our computer, converted to mp3 
files, from the start of the module system in 2004. I am always willing to 
share..... so if anyone wants a module as an mp3 file you only have to reply to 
this mail.

I guess noone wants the 56 cassettes that we received on Tuesday! Well you are 
all too late - they got trashed! What a waste of money! 

Judy, if you are able to pull any strings, I think this one will certainly save 
me a 3 times a year headache.

All the best
Jacquie  


Jacquie Mohar - Once a Blue, always a Blue
Everton loyal supporter
050 7788217


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> From: "Ask Etni" <ask@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [etni] Fw: cds for the winter bagrut
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:06:31 +0200
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Kobi <kobilavy@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: FW: cds for the winter bagrut
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> Jacquie asked me how it went with the new CD's on the
> day of the bagrut.
> I can tell you all that it was perfect. A month before the
> exam we got a 
> paper from the ministry showing us ahead of time the
> different tracks for 
> each module (where the text is ie: lines 1-4 and then track
> 7 question 1-4). 
> I gave the kids who came with CD players a copy of this
> paper so they could 
> know exactly where to go.
> The response of the students with CD's was really good.
> It made everything 
> much more simple and the level of their frustration was
> much lower. I felt 
> sorry for the kids who didn’t show up with a CD player
> and came with a 
> regular tape.
> I congratulate the English inspectorate for a job well done
> on these CD's!!! 
> touché.
> Now comes the time to a further improvement - a secured
> site of the ministry 
> where mp3 files will be uploaded with the different
> modules. The students 
> come with their mp3 players and in a matter of minutes
> while the tests are 
> being distributed to the students the files can be uploaded
> to their mp3 
> players. This will save an enormous amount of money.
> However, until that day comes... this year's bagrut
> CD's was such an 
> improvement. Thank you to everyone who was involved in the
> making of this 
> improvement and I think there's a lot to say to this
> list because this 
> business started in a conversation here on Etni. And of
> course thank you to 
> Judy Steiner.
> 
> Kobi Lavy
> Ankori High School, Jerusalem
> 



      
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