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>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:41:57 -0800 (PST)
>From: Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Fwd: Re: Media distribution and copyright
>To: [log in to unmask]
Otmar,
Just curious what happened to this reply - I haven't
seen it yet on LLTI.
Thanks,
Samantha
--- Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0800 (PST)
> From: Samantha Earp <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Media distribution and copyright
> To:
> Language Learning and Technology International
> Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
> CC: [log in to unmask]
>
> Dear Charlie,
>
> Apple is actually already exploring the use of
> iTunes
> in the educational context. I'd like to refer you to
> an article in the 11/4/05 edition of the Chronicle
> of
> Higher Education ("Stanford makes podcasts of
> lectures
> available through Apple's iTunes") that spotlights
> Stanford's use of this tool. Duke, Michigan and
> others in the Apple Digital Campus group are also
> working on this effort.
>
> The on-line version of the article is at
> http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i11/11a04402.htm for
> those who have a subscription (and therefore a
> login).
> You can view Stanford's use of iTunes for this
> purpose
> at http://itunes.stanford.edu.
>
> Best,
> Samantha Earp
> Head, Foreign Language Technology Support
> Duke University
> 919.660.5945 - [log in to unmask]
>
>
> --- Charlie Long <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
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body{margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}Dear
> Colleagues,
>
> We spend a lot of time implementing ways to deliver
> and organize copyrighted audio and video materials
> to
> and for our students. We make password protected web
> pages, we post files to course management systems.
> Students have to get on to our networks and behind
> firewalls in order to access them. We have to write
> for permissions, worry about what we are doing is
> legal, etc. All of this takes time and energy away
> from teaching and learning.
>
> I would like to offer an open suggestion to
> Publishers.
>
> iTunes is a wonderful media management system, it
> organizes, it is searchable, it is cross platform,
> and
> it is FREE! Publishers should make their audio and
> video available through an iTunes Educational Media
> Store. A keycode, along the lines of the Quia, Inc.
> or
> Pepsi bottle cap model, could be included with the
> textbook to allow for the downloading of the
> material.
> Alternately, a reasonable fee could be charged for
> used text books.
>
> If IALLT, AATSP, AATF, CALICO, etc. all approached
> the
> publishers and Apple, this could happen. The
> advantage
> to the publishers is great. They would not have to
> publish and package CD's or DVD's, saving them lots
> of
> money, hopefully passing along the savings to the
> students.
>
> Students and teachers alike would have their own
> copies of the materials to play when and where
> needed.
> The built-in copyright protection of the iTunes
> store
> limits the unauthorized distribution of the
> materials.
> Students are familiar with the interface. If EMINEM
> and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES can be distributed so
> easily
> to so many people, why can't the Lesson 5 listening
> comprehension or the fourth video episode be done as
> well?
>
> I hoping that there are publishers who read this
> list
> and that they will consider this option. I imagine
> that there are individuals in IALLT who will know
> how
> to best approach the people who make such decisions.
>
> Imagine all students having easy access to all the
> audio and video that a textbook has to offer without
> the institution having to do anything and without
> the
> publisher having to do any shrink wrapping.
>
> ceL
>
>
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> Charles E. Long, Head
> International Learning Center
> -International Study Programs
> -The Language lab
> Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street
> Wallingford, CT 06492
>
> "Ask not what you can do for technology, but what
> technology can do for you."
> "Most people in the world are foreigners."
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