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March 29, 2009
Price : $54.99
Features
- Ideal for teachers and for situation requiring portability and quality sound.
- Includes: 4 Listening First TM blue kids’ headphones
- Includes a blue mini stereo Jackbox with volume control.
- Connects to media players. PC and Apple compatible.
- Ideal and designed for kids and young students, even preschoolers.
Product Description
Ideal for Itinerant Teachers and situations requiring portableequipment with quality sound. Can be used for ListeningCenters, ELD / ELL / Title 3 / Special Education applications,Language Labs and Computer Labs with high student tocomputer ratios. Rugged ABS plastic construction for safety and durability inhigh-use situations PC and Apple compatible1. Four Listening FirstTM headphones whose features include:Adjustable headband, permanently attached cord withreinforced connection, lengthy 10 straight cord with rightangle plug to reduce accidental pull-out, ambient noise-reducingearcups keep students on task and lower outside noise.2. Protective slotted baffles within the earcups preventaccidental damage from prying fingers & foreign objects.3. Mini Stereo Jackbox features include: Silver-plated contactsprevent crackling sounds, individual volume controls, skidresistantpads at each corner wont mar or scrape surface,3.5mm stereo plug with detachable 6 patch cord (not shown)connects with media players.This bright and fun-colored Listening Centerwill encourage your students to participatein learning activities. Designed for use bysmaller sized students, these headphonesand jackbox will help inspire learning!Teacher ReportLooking for hardware that could help tie together several technologies - such as microphones, headphones and computers - to create a learning center for the foreign language department and to help support the district’s goal in encouraging students to use their critical thinking skills, we decided to purchase the USB Jackbox (1216USB) from Califone. The important part is that students are not noticing the technology, since it works seamlessly with the other parts of the learning center, allowing the students to concentrate on their lessons.Aron SterlingSchool-Based Technology SpecialistFairfax County Public SchoolsFairfax, Virginia
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Honey, We’re Killing the Kids is a nutrition and healthy living reality show that premiered in the United States on The Learning Channel (TLC) in 2006. The show originated in the UK as a BBC healthy living series. The US installment is a one hour weekly series hosted by Dr. Lisa Hark.
The show, intended to be an intervention — or well executed wake up call - to American families who lead a predominantly unhealthy lifestyle, has been criticized for using extreme computer generated images of what the children will look like if their lifestyle is not immediately altered by their parents. The families who are featured on the show have as least two children who range in age from toddler through teenager. One, if not all, of the family members are overweight or obese and usually eat fast or processed foods and log in far more television, computer and video game hours than any time spent exercising.
By the time we first meet the parents of the family being featured in the episode, the children have already met with doctors to assess their overall health, including food intake and lifestyle habits. The parents join nutritionist Lisa Hark to view life-size computer generated images that show what each of their children will look like by the age of 40 if their eating and lifestyle does not change. The images usually startle the parents; the pictures show extremely overweight, unhealthy and unkempt individuals who truly present a worst-case scenario. Critics of the show claim that these images are very extreme, perpetuating the myth that all overweight people are dirty, sloppy and unhappy people. The show is guilty of adding body piercings, unruly facial hair and mullets on people who otherwise might not wear them
However, the wake up call is enough to get a commitment from the parents, who thus embark on a month long health improvement plan, featuring a radical change in diet and a bevy of exercise and family outings that replace the hours once spent in front of the TV. The success of the program varies from family to family and the stress of the changes usually falls upon the mother who is accountable for learning how to make tofu attractive to her children. Many times the father puts up as much a fuss as the kids. The mothers are trying to eat healthy and quit smoking themselves and often crack under the pressure of too many changes at once.
At the end of each episode, once weight changes and lifestyle changes are noted, the computer generates a new set of pictures - usually showing not only a thinner 40 year old, but one in snappy professional clothes bearing an overall clean cut, meticulous and happy presence.
The show allows us one more peek into the family’s life. The cameras visit them one month after the show stops filming. Most of the families are filmed smiling and happy, riding together on new bikes, and each appears to have lost at least ten pounds. Only one family during Honey?s first season refused to be filmed for the follow up; we can surmise their bikes are gathering dust in the garage.
Find more out about Honey, We Are Killing the Kids and the entire reality t.v. world at http://www.network-reality.info