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>Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:37:48 -0400
>From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum   
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>Subject: Re: #8815 Loaning out DVDs
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These are the Cd-Roms, right?

We have a few, mostly just one per language. The only person that gets 
to borrow one is the teacher (to whom I also lend the installation 
disk). We have so few that I would not want to lend a copy to someone 
for home use, since another student might turn up who wants to use it. I 
feel this is something that is most useful when kept in the lab. I have 
not yet, however, had a faculty member come pleading with me to borrow 
it for a month because he or she desperately needs to brush up on Korean 
or Chinese.

I think the key is that the user has to have the language CD-ROM (not 
just the installation disk) to use the program. The installer is pretty 
much the same for all the programs. We put the installation on all our 
walk-in computers but it is useless without the specific language CD-Rom.

Judy



LLTI-Editor wrote:

> We've just purchased a variety of Rosetta Stone single copy DVDs for our
> Language Learning Resource Center.  While we'd like to be able to loan
> the material out to students and staff for home use, the program
> requires an installation to be done on the computer before the language
> software can be used.  So far I've been holding back on loaning the
> packages out because it seems to me that this would be an infringement
> of copyright, and consequently have required people using the program to
> only use it on our lab computers.  I'd be interested to know if other
> schools are loaning this type of software to their campus community
> members, and if so, how they justify it in light of copyright laws.
> 
> Thanks for your responses!
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Susan Breeyear, Asst. Director
> Instructional Technology Services
> Box C, One Winooski Park
> Saint Michaels College
> Colchester, VT 05439
> (802) 654-2821


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