Re: [school-discuss] listening centers and cassette tapes

[Jonathan Polacheck <jonpol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The current  implementation is a cassette player with four headphone 
jacks, picture books and tapes with the text of the books read aloud and 
voice queues to "turn the page".  Usually (not always) there are four 
books to go along with the headphones.  One side of the tape is one book 
(8 to 12 pages, 3 to 5 min is my guess).

A personal mp3 player would need a good interface that the operator 
could quickly change tracks on with four impatient kindergradeners 
waiting on.  It would also need enough output signal to run four sets of 
full over-the-ear sets of headphones.

The wireless headphones are a mixed blessing.  Increased weight, more 
maintenance, more expensive to acquire and replace. 

Justin Riddiough wrote:
> > How about inexpensive portable cd players - convert the tape to cd :) or
> > mp3
> > on CD
>
>
> I thought about that, portable cd players with mp3 aren't that
> expensive.. but the rewind & fast forward capabilities can be tricky.
> Whenever I try to rewind or fast forward or pause & play these things, 
> I end
> up on some other track or stopping the play and having to restart.  If 
> the
> audio was put onto the media as one long track, that could get 
> frustrating.