----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy Givati" <jesg50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: CD and tapes clarification 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. ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------