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By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:09:54 +0000

Thanks Neal.
Delivering depends on the file size. If it’s small(ish) I can e-mail it to the students – I need to remind them to save it somewhere and then delete it else their college InBox fills up pretty quick. I prefer e-mail – it’s more personal and is a nice surprise for them when they see it. If the file sizes are large and/or I’m short on time, I’ll copy and paste all files into the class shared folder on the college network.

No real technical problems. They press play and Real Player / iTunes or whatever kicks in. No hand-holding.

If you use Audacity (the sound recorder/editor I use) there is a tricky procedure the very first time you save as an mp3 – you also have to download a .dll file from the Audacity website and browse to it – just once – just the first time you save as mp3. You don’t have to do anything like this if you save it as a wav file in Audacity. I’ll attach a few how-to’s from YouTube and Audacity to my post once I close this reply.

By: Neal Chambers

Neal Chambers — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:27:46 +0000

An excellent idea Sean!

How do you usually deliver the mp3s? Do you just email them to the student or do you use some kind of website/web 2.0 tool thingy?

Have you encountered any technical problems so far from the student side? Have the students been able to play the mp3 back ok, and respond. or have you had to do a lot of hand holding?