MP3 player

Just returned from time with two of my IT literate children and they both played around with the MP3 player. I had found how to record, but couldn't play it back. After some time fumbling around with it they asked the all important question - "Why do you need to record, play back and get it on to the computer"? When I explained - they looked at me in disbelief and said together - "Why don't you have an inexpensive simple dictaphone on the table, so learners can just press one button to record and one to stop."? Certainly the MP3 player we have is not easy - if you give a quick press you get one response and a long press gets another - if your short press is seen by the MP3 player as a long press you go all around the houses again! confused? well I think most people would be. Thinking about it - I think a good combination for learners to record progress, achievement and give feedback on their learning experience would be a combination of a digital camera and a simple compact dictaphone. Oh! the MP3 player did have a good use - on the way to London to see children I was able to listen to my beginners Spanish tape!
Also I had some great and much needed IT support today from a GL14 Community Project volunteer who is setting up our web site. I had been struggling to add photos to a CDRW using MS wizard. I thought you could add a few photos each week each week as a learner may wish to do to their personal disc. I think I have learnt that to add more photos it is necessary to use Nero (it is on AdEd laptop) but I had just been using MS wizard and it wouldn't work. It is not difficult - when you have learnt how to use Nero - but I needed to be shown this. I spent ages struggling to do what is not possible!