Re: education, technology & chat (recording equipment)

["Adam Lefstein" <adaml@netvision.net.il>]

Regarding the issue of recording in classrooms:
I use a Sharp mini-disc recorder and Sony ECM-MS907 microphone.  I highly 
recommend the mini-disc: the sound is amazingly clean and they are very 
inconspicuous.  Make sure to get one with manual voice level control (and of 
course a microphone jack).  I haven't tried the new high density models, but 
they look very promising (and can double as a 1 gigabyte backup disk drive).
I'm also very pleased with the microphone, though if I had a bigger budget I 
would have preferred a professional mike.
Hope this helps,
Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Chappell" <phil_chappell@access.inet.co.th>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: education, technology & chat


> bb,
>
> I'm about to make this a major project, especially as I'm about to hit
> Sydney for a month. I'll report back on the audio side of this issue when 
> I
> can. There's more to classroom discourse than IRF, and we need to work out
> ways of getting at it.
>
> Thanks again for opening up your work for this multidimensional 
> discussion,
> ensuing battles and all!
>
> Phil
> .  It works great for interviews, and is horrible for group
> > discourse at a table when the rest of the class is noisy.  I'm not sure 
> > if
> > it's the compression method or what, but I get much better audio with
> analog
> > cassette.  I'm looking into table mics and could benefit from anyone's
> > suggestions.
> >
> > In this math case, since the discourse is IRF, there is only one person
> > talking at a time and i think i've got something useful.  I'll process it
> > tomorrow while traveling and will know better then.
> >
> > Yes, the discourse is important to my study.  The challenge is capturing
> > something useful.