gingernut
12th Jan 2007, 20:01
Ok, this is the situation.
My students shortly sit their practical exams which involves examining patients for a 5 minute period, then moving on to the next "station" to perform further examination for 5 minutes.
At the end of each 5 minute period, the student moves on to the next station, and this carries on until the student completes the 12 or so stations we've devised.
There are about 10 students in each test, and they all shift along the line after each 5 minute period, to move onto their next station.
(are you with it so far?):)
At 4min30s into the session, the student recieves a warning that there is 30 seconds remaining, (a claxon) and at 5minutes, the students recieve a notice (bells ringing) to move on to the next station.
The warning system consists of the warning sounds played on a mini disc, set to repeat. The current system is a bit tempremental, and not very "student friendly." And its a bit stressful for me too:)
I'd like to change the system to a verbal prompts, via a cd, which can just be inserted into a portable cd player.
I'd like to "burn" a cd, that has two verbal messages, "please move to the next station and begin," and "thirty seconds remaining" at the required intervals.
I have a laptop, no microphone, "Microsoft Sam," text recognition software, a dvd/cd burner, a portable cd player, and windows xp movie maker. I won't be taking my laptop to the exam.
I just havn't got the brain power to mix them all together. Any ideas ppruners ?
My students shortly sit their practical exams which involves examining patients for a 5 minute period, then moving on to the next "station" to perform further examination for 5 minutes.
At the end of each 5 minute period, the student moves on to the next station, and this carries on until the student completes the 12 or so stations we've devised.
There are about 10 students in each test, and they all shift along the line after each 5 minute period, to move onto their next station.
(are you with it so far?):)
At 4min30s into the session, the student recieves a warning that there is 30 seconds remaining, (a claxon) and at 5minutes, the students recieve a notice (bells ringing) to move on to the next station.
The warning system consists of the warning sounds played on a mini disc, set to repeat. The current system is a bit tempremental, and not very "student friendly." And its a bit stressful for me too:)
I'd like to change the system to a verbal prompts, via a cd, which can just be inserted into a portable cd player.
I'd like to "burn" a cd, that has two verbal messages, "please move to the next station and begin," and "thirty seconds remaining" at the required intervals.
I have a laptop, no microphone, "Microsoft Sam," text recognition software, a dvd/cd burner, a portable cd player, and windows xp movie maker. I won't be taking my laptop to the exam.
I just havn't got the brain power to mix them all together. Any ideas ppruners ?