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Using Digital Recorders for Reading Samples
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by cprout on 08-10-2006
Using digital recorders to record student’s reading samples provides a way for students, teachers and parents to document growth. The resulting files could be burned to a cd-rom to give to the student, their family and their teacher for next year. If they were stored on a server a lasting record of a student’s reading progress could be shown.
Digital recorders can be purchased at many computers stores. Another idea would be to use audio recording software such as Audacity to record the samples. The difficulty with using such software is the student would then be confined to recording their samples at that computer.
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October 8th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
What is the most affordable audio recorder available today that readily plugs into a computer’s USB interface? Miguel Guhlin has told me about the iAudio device, available for about $80, but are their other viable options at lower price points?
October 12th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I have a Sony ICD P320, I purchased it from COMP USA for around $40. Here’s a link for more information.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_ICD_P320_digital_voice_recorder/4505-11314_7-31829950.html