Give an advantage and disadvantage of each of the following technologies used for documentation in the classroom: audio recorder, video recorder, and photographs
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Audio recorder
Advantages: It is good for capturing language development.
Disadvantages: Often it is after you have heard something that you would like to have recorded it; background noises in classrooms make it difficult to obtain a clear recording; it may cause inhibited behavior.
Video recorder
Advantages: You get a realistic documentation with all details present to be reviewed again and again.
Disadvantages: It is expensive; unwieldy to use; it may cause inhibited behavior.
Photographs
Advantages: You preserve a visual of the activity, good for memory stretching.
Disadvantages: It may be expensive, it may cause inhibited behavior.
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