[etni] Fw: re: CD and tapes clarification
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- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:18:22 +0200
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From: Sarah Maoz - srmaoz@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CD and tapes clarification
You have 10 kids and I have around 100 kids (it's a big school!). We always
opened the tapes earlier so we could put a sticker with the kid's name on
each one and sometimes when we didn't get enough we had to make extra
recordings. I am VERY UPSET about this proposed change over, since it is
much more complicated to make CDs with tracks or even MP recordings (right
now I really don't know how!) than taping a cassette. In my opinion the
Ministry should send us all to do a Hishtalmut on how to make CDs instead of
how to teach HOTS!!!! A VERY ANNOYED AND UPSET TEACHER - Sarah Maoz,
Coordinator, Katzir High School, Rehovot.
jesg wrote:
>I don't understand... how can one transfer to MP3 on the test day.. after
all, we're NOT allowed to open the disks until the test begins! (and I have
at least 10 kids with "Hakrayat Shelon!!)
> Does anyone know if it's true that we don't need diskmen..just radios
with disk players????? jesg
Kobi wrote:
> Hi Sharon,
> In order not to experiment on the day of the bagrut why don't you take an
> old bagrut CD and see if you can transfer it easily to mp3 file (and also
> how much time it takes). I tried it at home and takes less than a minute
> (as
> the file is not large at all). I think a preferable program for this is
> itunes which recognizes immediately the file and transfers it to mp3 file
> (fit to ipod but if you save it on the desktop for example it can work on
> the windows media player as well).
> Kobi
Sharon wrote:
>>Some clarifications:
>>First, unless we hear otherwise, CD disks are the only media that will be
> sent this winter. I suggest we inform our students. I'd like to think that
> at last minute we'll be offered an option of tapes as well, but I highly
> doubt it. The numbers are mind-boggling. Mr. HaLevi told me that the
> ministry needs to supply over 40,000 of the given media. (I don't know if
> the numbers he gave me were for summer or winter - but it's a lot.
>>Much as we'd like to help them, it is their responsibility and that of
>>their
> parents. I think that one can find cheap CD players (apparently, it
> doesn't
> have to be a diskman) - and there are students who have CD players at home
> that they can bring.
>>Someone wrote to me that they thinking of having kids use a CD drive of a
> computer. That is NOT an option - there are too many other resources that
> kids can access on a computer.
>>Secondly, some people writing to the list thought that the Ministry should
> handling this issue and not a volunteer teacher (though people have
> expressed appreciation of my efforts). The Ministry - i.e. - Judy
> Steiner -
> IS involved. There is a committee working on the issue and Judy is on the
> committee. The reason Mr. HaLevi called me is because I asked him if I
> (and
> perhaps other teachers who are interested) could use MP3 players with my
> own
> students this winter as a trial run for using MP3s. I figured that on the
> day of the exam, 20 minutes before the exam, I could open the envelope,
> and
> change the CD files to MP3 files and then load them on to my students' MP3
> players. I have about 5 students doing F with HaKraat Sheilon this winter,
> so the numbers aren't so daunting. If course, I would do a few trial runs
> this semester.
>>Mr. HaLevi was not against the idea, but wasn't sure if I should take
>>upon
> myself such responsibility just to save a few students from bringing (or
> even buying) CD players - and I think he has a good point. As I wrote
> before, I was pleased to see that the people involved are thinking of all
> the various problems involved. Perhaps I was able to give him so more
> input - as a teacher in the field.
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