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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Tim Cunningham
Disabilities Support Technician
Northumbria University
Tel: 0191 243 7686
Mob: 0797 497 2954
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/disabilities
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