Thoughts on using portable media players

                         Using the Sansa View media player

 

Music library:

 

• Download free ebooks, copy & paste into a word document, using word talk convert to mp3 file.
  • "Chunk" longer books into chapters
  • Sources for free e-text
    • University of Virginia
    • Project Gutenburg
    • The Baldwin On-Line Children's Literature Project
    • Lit2Go
    • Digital Librarian
    • Bookmarks on Delicious for supported e-text
• To assist a student to remain on task in a work environment.....Use audacity to record music or "white noise", record phrases at selected intervals "Keep working, you're doing good"   "Only one minute left you can start cleaning up", etc.  Then the student can listen to the player as they are completing the task.
• Record directions to an activity or for a station assignment.
• If you own a book on CD the CD can be burned into an mp3 file.

 

 

Photo library:

 

• Save power point files as jpg images and import
  • picture schedules
  • study class lectures
  • vocabulary study
  • social stories
  • maps

 

Video library

 

• Capture screen recordings of power point books
• Capture screen recordings of narrated vocabulary cards
• Capture screen recordings of text to speech documents for completing quizes.
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  • How to use Window Media Encoder
• Convert you tube or teacher tube videos
• Video modeling
• Job assistant for work placements
• Convert photo stories

 

Files to be used for training