If the content were stored in a shared (network) location, why not teach the
students to load it onto the Sansa themselves?

That said, I agree with Lucy: I have worked with a couple of Sansa's players
and I find the interface clumsy at best, plus the ones I worked with would
only sync through Media Player, making it a more complicated process than
(IMHO) should be necessary. Maybe the newer ones support simple drag 'n drop
like a flash drive? If so, it could be a snap for students to grab their own
content, plus making it their responsibility.

Eric


on 3/2/10 9:19 AM, Drew Blanchard wrote:

> We have an interesting idea to help our (large) ELL population. One of our
> middle school teachers and I want to give cheap mp3 players to his ELL
> students and use players to hold the day's lessons, notes, assignments, etc.
> so the students have the information for playback at home. Making the
> initial recording is no problem; getting it on all the mp3 players is the
> real issue. Uploading the files to the Web isn't really going to help, as
> most of these students do not have a computer or Internet access at home
> (hence the portable mp3 players). We have neither the time nor the
> resources to copy the files onto 25+ individual players every day.
> Suggestions?
>
> Drew

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