We used to sell the 20Gig iPods with the Belkin Voice Recorder for
the students, so they could record into the iPod as a voice file and
it would sync with iTunes as an MP3 and appear in your list in
iTunes. There was a connection on the top of the older iPods to plug
the Belkin Voice Recorder into. However the new range of iPods does
not have this facility any longer.
I was disappointed, as this was the replacement unit for students who
previously used Sony Mini Disc players and microphones, they use it
for music, voice memos and for carrying around files, and 20Gig was a
good start size. Now we have had to revert back to the Olympus
Recorder bundle which is not ideal, and of course is not a storage
device.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, perhaps Apple will bring it back
in the future? We will keep an eye out if it does and let you know!
Regards
Jo
www.solutions-inc.co.uk/education
Jo Dowd
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On 23 Nov 2005, at 10:36, Tim Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all
> I got this idea from seeing something similar on the news a while
> ago and
> just wondered if anyone had any first hand experience with it.
>
> We have a number of different recording devices here that we loan to
> students who are waiting for their DSA funding to be processed.
>
> These recording devices range from Minidisks and digital recorders
> down to
> an old style cassette walkman.
>
> Ideally I'd like all the students to be able to use a digital
> recorder, that
> way they can record their lectures/notes and archive them on to their
> PC/Laptop.
>
> The digital recorders we use all have removable media in the form of a
> memory card which is normally about 128MB. This will normally
> record a
> couple of hours of lectures.
>
> However, I noticed a University in the US give out iPods to all
> students
> with the detachable microphone that they can use to record lectures.
> Obviously they will be used for playing music too but the same can
> be said
> for loaned laptops etc - no doubt non-educational sites and games
> will be
> viewed and ran!
>
> Do any UK based Universities loan out iPods for recording
> lectures? Once
> the lectures are on an iPod can they be moved to a student's laptop/
> PC? A
> budget iPod can store 2-4GB and for a little extra money you can
> get a 30GB
> or 60GB model.
>
> If anyone does use an iPod to record or is responsible for loaning
> them out
> to students I'd be very interested to here both on or off list.
>
> Many thanks
> Tim Cunningham
>
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