What USB headset to buy?

More and more teachers in my district have been creating digital stories with students, using any number of software programs and web applications. We've learned a number of things through these projects, including:

our computers don't like headsets that use the standard audio and microphone jacks - for whatever reason, it's hit or miss whether a headset of this type will work
USB headsets seem to solve most of these problems, so long as the computer recognizes the headset correctly

My question is, what headset should we buy? There's a range of prices, all more expensive than standard jack models, and it stings a bit more when a $30 headset breaks. I'd like to send two recommendations to our administration team - one inexpensive, moderately reliable model that's easily replaced and one sturdy, high-quality model that would hold up over time but probably cost more.

What's working for you all?

Thanks!!

Tags: digitalstories, digitalstorytelling, foreignlanguage, headset, languagelab

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