Headsets are provided for each student in Years 2-6 in order to improve sound recording quality and volume (microphone), cut out background noise (microphone), and to decrease classroom noise (headphones).
How to Use
This video shows the best way for a student to insert the earbuds. The earbuds chosen by NIST have several sizes, so you can put smaller cups on the earbud if the student’s ear is too small.
Background
- NIST does not have a booklist of materials needed for the year
- Need headphones for listening to media
- Students will do more audio recording in future, so need better recording
- Student ears are variable, so we need different sizes of ear-buds
- Therefore, we need variable size earbud headsets with a mic
- Not share within class for germs/responsibility
- Stationery store will have some in stock for teams to order (as stationery)
Rules
- Each student has one pair
- Each pair should be labelled
- Teachers responsible to have/make a system for keeping in bags/box or hanging in class
- Year level orders new headsets from stationery as needed
- Leaving students’ headsets get recycled to newcomer after a cleaning
- Teachers responsible for passing a full year level worth of functioning* headsets (120) on to next year level labelled with ‘student name’ or labelled as ‘spare’ for new student
- Teachers responsible for separating at start of year by class
- Year 6 headsets go home with students.
- Year 2 gets new headsets each year from IT budget
* functioning means: complete, both cups attached,