Califone Versatile Use of a Boombox
Posted by Keirsten Dungan on 6th Mar 2014
Califone Versatile Use of a Performer Plus Boombox
Incorporating boomboxes throughout your school can be so much more than for daily classroom exercises.
Throughout the course of every school week, your students are immersed in a mixture of activities that often involve a multimedia player. While in class, students practicing their language learning can be checking their own progress as they record themselves using a player’s built-in or attached microphone for quick playback. You can have your beginning readers wear headphones connected to a player as they follow along to an audio book so they can better learn the pronunciation of vocabulary words.
On the music side of their education, during lessons you can ensure that students can distinguish the different sounds within a song using a player’s balance control, which splits music tracks to separate vocals and instruments. Another way students can improve their music abilities is by controlling the speed of the music projected by a player like the Performer Plus™ so they can choreograph and learn dance steps easier to fine tune their routine. And what is all this preparation of dance and song for?
“The Performer Plus multimedia player allows our K-5 students to practice for programs that they themselves put on in addition to using it during class times.”
For performances and school productions of course! Shares music teacher Diane Wicker from Cape Girardeau, MO: “ The Performer Plus multimedia player allows our K-5 students to practice for programs that they themselves put on in addition to using it during class times.” A part of that practice is being able to play music from different sources to provide you with the flexibility of not having to restrict yourself with using only cassettes or CD's but also digital audio files.
If using a CD, a simple way to set up a medley of songs for a performance would be by programming them in your order of preference. If during the performance, such as one for a talent show, you to make an announcement but you don’t quite want to stop the music, all you need to do is use the voice-over feature and use the player as a PA system to garner the audience’s attention. For greater sound amplification and to really blast sound for a concert in an auditorium or gym, use the player’s outputs to connect PA equipment and you’ll be blaring clear, loud music in no time.
