Patricia, I've switched to the Edirol R-09 mp3 recorder for our digital voice recording needs, since although a big Mac fan, I've gotten sick of the perpetual conversion and iTune synch support requests with iPods. We also use Marantz handhelds in our loaner pool, which have the advantage of being durable and ugly enough that they don't grow legs and vanish. ;-) (n.b., the Griffin iMic records at too low a bitrate to be used with an online Flash player, for those planning to embed these audio clips on blogs with built-in Flash player interface.) Ellen *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************