ROLLING AUDIO POD

Spirit Rolling Audio Pod Stereo Listening Center

Teachers rely on these classroom learning centers to help eliminate classroom clutter and assist small groups of beginning readers.

“While educators rely on learning centers, all too often teachers, media specialists, and reading teachers spend too much of their time locating and organizing listening center equipment, reading materials, and audio components into one convenient place.

To address this problem, Califone has designed these all in one audio solutions to eliminate clutter and to keep audio equipment and listening materials organized in one central location. Available in either portable or stationary models, each of the two Spirit Audio Pods has dedicated storage spaces for the included Spirit multimedia player/recorder, jackbox, six headphones, areas for your own audio materials, books, and a special section to organize cables and cords.

This encourages students to take better care of the equipment while allowing teachers to quickly track each audio component for future use. They also support state requirements for developing oral communication skills and understanding media literacy as a part of recommended educational technology standards.

Since the audio equipment is readily available, the Spirit Audio Pod allows students to begin their lessons promptly and clean up efficiently afterward, which decreases waiting time between activities and optimizes the time available for learning.”

“Books, CDs, and bags are not included”

Benefits of having students listen to the text they’re reading include

- Helps those who have trouble conceptualizing that words have both sounds and meaning

- Helps to improve fluency, which in turn will lead to better comprehension of text

- Helps expand student vocabulary

- Students better understand the effect of pace and prosody on their own reading

- Audio books further enable students to explore various genres and utilize their own values and judgments to choose texts. Students who are read to on a daily basis are found to have positive changes in their attitude toward reading

- The spoken word and the visual word reinforce each other

INCLUDES

1. Spirit 1776 Multimedia Player

• Stereo CD/ cassette player / recorder

• AM/FM radio with four speakers loud enough for 40 students

• Headphone jack for individual and group listening center

• Permanently attached 5’ cord for classroom safety

• Built in mic to record student responses and projects

2. Six 3068AV Stereo Headphones

• Mono-to-stereo for multiple applications

• Individual volume controls for personalized preferences

• 6’ coiled cord with 3.5mm plug, snap-on 1/4” adapter

• Noise-reducing earcups lower ambient noise so volume

does not need to be played at high levels

3. Ten-position stereo jackbox with individual volume controls

4. Rolling cart with Audio Pod

Rolling System (1776PLC6C shipped in three boxes) Rolling cart + Califone equipment 18 lbs + 4 lbs + 17 lbs = 39 pounds