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| | Requirements for Creating Audio Cassette Tapes |
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| If you wish to include audio tapes in your course, either as supplements to the study guide or for examinations, please follow the guidelines below: |
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If you are recording your own tapes, the IDLP office will supply you with blank 30 min. or 60 min. cassette tapes. Prerecorded tapes from other sources may be of longer length, but be aware that 90 min. and 2-hour cassettes contain thinner tape which tends to jam. We cannot handle reel-to-reel tapes. |
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Home taping is not usually satisfactory, because it is hard to achieve consistent sound quality without extraneous noises. The Language Laboratory on the Athens campus makes facilities available for recording instructional materials. You may also make arrangements for taping with the OU Telecommunications Center or the Instructional Media and Technical Services Center in Alden Library. |
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The clear (unrecordable) leader tape at the end of each cassette side varies slightly in length from tape to tape and from brand to brand. Allow a little extra tape at the end of each side that you record, so that your material does not get cut off when we make copies. You do not need to leave extra tape at the beginning of your material. |
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The IDLP office has a high-speed cassette copier which transfers everything on one side of the master tape to the corresponding side of the copy tapes. The machine cannot be stopped mid-tape for editing purposes, so the tapes you supply us must be in the format in which the students will use them. We cannot divide up material from one side of your cassette. |
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For the reason stated in #4, tapes used as part of examinations (language courses, etc.) must contain only one form of the examination on each cassette. |
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Supplementary tapes to be used with the study guide may contain material for several lessons on one tape. We encourage this since it reduces the number of tapes our staff and students need to handle and mail. |
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When you are recording material for a particular lesson on the tape, please identify the lesson number verbally on the tape. We try to correctly label the lesson and course number on the cassette, but having it on the tape is good insurance. (Verbal identification is, of course, not possible on prerecorded tapes.) |
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Avoid possible problems by consulting with the Instructional Materials staff in Independent Study before you begin taping! |
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