--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:37:48 -0400 >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #8815 Loaning out DVDs >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************