I am looking for your recommendations on portable mp3 field recorders.
We want to send students out with easy to use, portable mp3 voice
recorders to conduct interviews in the field. Students would then
download the audio to computers and edit them into final pieces which
would then be shared beyond the classroom. Would you recommend iPods
with voice recorders? Why/Why not? Any experience with iRiver devices?
Or gear from Roland or M-Audio? Many devices are in the $300-$500 range.
Does anyone have experience using $100 devices?
Source: Ed-Tech list email

I’d recommend one of the Olympus WS-100 or WS-110 recorders. We bought
about 100 of the WS-100s for $64 each. This is an easy to use podcasting
tool. The only caveat is that it saves the audio as a WMA file, however,
we encourage teachers to either use iTunes or the no-cost Switch
(cross-platform) to convert it to MP3. In fact, I use Switch to
accomplish this.

More on these points:

• Olympus
  WS-100 with Link to Tutorial (education use)
• Olympus WS-100 Tutorial Link
• Switch,cross-platform audio converter
• And, a write-up about using both (question #3)
• Write-up on Olympus WS-110
• School Podcasting Workshop materials
• Podcast Panopoly

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