[senco-forum] ARROW

If you are going to record pupil voices and use that for teaching you need

I would love to be ale to buy and pay the man for something like  that.
Unfortunately, my budget barely covers  the purchase of pens, paper and
photocopying. I buy most of my  other resources out of my own pocket. Those
of us who don't teach large classes, but smaller groups or with
individual's, don't get the luxuries you talk of. Interactive whiteboard ???
In my dreams!!!! I am very grateful to have what I've got given that I am
part of a small peripetetic LEA service and the main school I cover has
given me a small budget for resources. Most of my team members don't get
that. 
My room has the old roll around shiny blackboard. With chalk.  My works
Laptop runs on Me which should tell you how old it is. I have two computers
in the room where I work, one is my son's old one. My colleague is still
using Windows 98 on her PC.

I have used arrow technique in the past and recorded the child's voice using
a Coomber. Although it wasn't as precise a the actual arrow machine it
worked . The principal is the child hears their own voice.

I just figured I could do this using the pc given that my only recording
devise (Coomber) was stolen  last September. To replace it would take 25% of
my budget. 
The Head kindly said it could be replaced from the school rather than my
dept budget but I had to wait until the  new financial year arrived. My
Coomber recorder is now on order.

On 22/05/2008 23:40, "Philip MacMillan" <P.Macmillan at exeter.ac.uk> wrote:

> If you are going to record pupil voices and use that for teaching you need
> to record it in a very specific way, Audacity will not do it.  Why, in
> education, is everything expected to be free, do teachers work for nothing?
> Do you get your computers for free, your teacher training (for what that is
> worth) for free, your whiteboards? someone somewhere paid for those and
> those who did had no choice in the matter. Pay the man his money.
> 
> Philip EP
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> From: "Sheridan Sharp1" <sheridan.sharp1 at btinternet.com>
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> 
>> 
>> I've been thinking about this. I guess I could use the free 'Audacity'
>> recording program to get the children to record their own spelling lists
>> and
>> have their own voices played back to them and they could see the waveforms
>> on that too.
>> 
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