Concerning copyright of what your outlined on the listserve... it
sounds a bit sketchy. I would be concerned. However, I'll leave
copyright to someone with more experience and background. I love what
you want to do but would be concerned about how it's being done.
Perhaps I can be of help in one aspect. I have compiled a wiki page
about electronic books and am planning my dissertation research around
the scenario you described. Feel free to look at the wiki page and
use it as much as you need. There are also a several great blogs out
there discussing electronic/digital books, their trends, and issues
related to them. If you want, I can send you my blog list.
Good luck in your efforts. It sounds like you have some great ideas
to help your students. If I can help out in your 'electronic book
journey,' please feel free to contact me at any time.
http://lab-inst.usu.edu/groups/inst4010/wiki/25b70/Electronic_Books.html
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Kurt Johnson
Assistant Director
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
Utah State University
2830 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-2830
(435) 797-3611
On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Michele Gutierrez wrote:
> This does not address all of your questions, but our librarian started
> building our audio collection this year, and she is going with a
> device
> called a PlayAway. She was faced with all of the same questions
> about what
> is the best for the future, but did not have an existing collection to
> worry about. These Playaways are self contained audio books and
> players.
> There is no worrying about what form is best or any worry about
> students
> who do not have access to an iPod.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michele Gutierrez
> Lower School Technology Coordinator
> Lower School Diversity Coordinator
> Durham Academy Lower School
> 3501 Ridge Road
> Durham, NC 27705
>
> http://academics.da.org/lowerschool/
>
>
>
> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> writes:
>> Our school library is a bit different than most. Due to our
>> population
>> (all LD students) we offer our students a "reading library". We
>> have many
>> fiction books, as all students are required to do nightly reading,
>> and
>> about 1200 books on tape. Over the course of the last couple of
>> years we
>> are trying to move away from books on audio tape to books on CD,
>> since
>> nobody has a cassette player anymore! We have been converting the
>> cassette tapes to CDs. Of course now we are starting to think
>> about how
>> we can offer these books to our students that have iPods, which if
>> it's
>> anything like your school, it's most of the kids! I don't know if we
>> should be converting these CDs to digital audio and putting them on
>> some
>> kind of server for them to download, or if we should then podcast
>> them
>> some way. The idea is for kids to be able to listen and read along
>> at
>> home. I'm sure CD players will go the way of cassette players soon
>> and we
>> want to be prepared. I would welcome any thoughts, suggestions or
>> experiences with this issue. Thanks.
>>
>> :) Laurie
>>
>> Laurie Yalem
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Churchill Center & School for Learning Disabilities
>> 1021 Municipal Center Dr.
>> Town & Country, MO 63131
>> 314-997-4343
>> lyalem@churchillstl.org
>> www.churchillstl.org
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