• A great tool for storytelling, emotions, phonics, tongue twisters, fluency, speech therapy, intervention, math facts, podcasts, dramatic play, assessment, teacher conferences, field trips and more
• Boosts students' 21st-century skills
  
• Invites all students to talk -- ideal for reluctant speakers and readers
  
• Download to your computer (PC/Mac) and send files to other teachers, parents, and specialists
  
• Upload to your class website, virtual learning network or digital portfolios for assessment
  
• Provides simple operation for young students. Reading not required, and easier to use than a tape recorder
• Allows teacher or student to listen without disturbing others
• Does not require the purchase of batteries
• Choose the file format / size that's right for you
• Inspire creativity and budding musicians
• Offers convenient portability and safety
  

• Up to 4 hours of wireless recording time
• Built-in speaker for high-quality playback
• 128MB built-in memory
• Fun microphone shape (5 1/4" H)
• USB connection
• Positive action on / off switch
• Simple single button record
• Playback volume control
• 1 headphone jack
• Battery charges via USB connector
• WAV or MP3 recording capability
• Audacity® recording software
• Breakaway lanyard
  

Examples of Uses for Easi-Speak® Pro USB Recorder

General

• Document student learning / thinking for formative assessment -- share files with specialists, other educators, or parents.
• Conduct oral quizzes / tests or student self-assessments.
• Record and communicate more complicated instructions for student activities or games.
• Dictate curricula explanations, lessons or homework to provide to parents, administrators, absent students or substitutes.
• Record and replay morning message.
• Collect student-generated content to use as models for teaching others.
• Conduct interviews.
• Discuss / relate content to real-life contexts.
• Share fears or favorite things about studying certain subjects / topics.

Early Childhood and Special Needs

• Capture social interactions and conflict resolution between students.
• Use for dramatic play (role play singing, announcing, reporting, storytelling or giving speeches).
• Practice pronouncing phonemes or letter sounds, counting, singing, chanting, etc.
  
• Record speech therapy activities.

Language Arts

• Practice pronouncing phonemes, letter sounds or blending words.
  
• Record read alouds, buddy reading or timed fluency readings
• Recite poetry, spelling words or sentences using correct phrasing and intonation.
• Retell or sequence a story. Record predictions. Ask questions about a story and recall details.
  
• Record oral grammar structures and replay them to see if they sound correct.
• Define and explain key vocabulary words.
• Dictate writing prior to putting words on paper. Record writer's workshop conferences.
• Practice or give a speech.
  
• Be a reporter and conduct interviews.
  

Math

• Perform computations verbally, step by step. Explain mathematical reasoning and problem-solving strategies.
• Communicate about, and relate, math concepts. Relate math to other subjects.
  
• Complete a timed mental math quiz for math fluency.
• Read a clock. Use correct wording to read aloud numerals, fractions / decimals / percents or monetary amounts.
• Recite times tables, common equivalencies, place value order, months of the year or days of the week.
• Identify, describe and compare objects' attributes.
• identify and discuss a pattern, including how to create and extend it.
• Estimate, compare and convert number values,measurements, etc.
• Gather verbal data (surveys / polls) -- interpret data aloud.
• Describe likelihood in probability or a coordinate path in geometry.

Science and Social Studies

• Explain scientific thinking.
• Demonstrate understanding  of "big idea" concepts.
  
• Explain how to design an investigation or full inquiry, or narrate / record actual ones.
• Record observations. Identify, describe, compare and classify objects.
• Gather, analyze and interpret data verbally.
• Recite the order of the planets, steps in a process, states and capitals, presidents, a timeline or famous speeches.
• Reenact historical events.