[aisle] Reading Aloud in Online Settings

[Jill Bennin]

I agree- I also attended today!

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 1:49 PM Michelle Harris via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I just finished attending a webinar about Fair Use and reading aloud.  It
> was BRILLIANT!!
> Here is the link to the document accompanying the webinar and it will soon
> be updated with the URL for a YouTube recording of the entire session.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15zf0ue6aWM-_TaxQG2eALP612-E_f7A6JtoqZKxaQlM/preview#
>
> Basically, three takeaways:
>
>    - I can read online any book, any portion of a book, etc. (but be
>    careful about textbooks...see webinar for details) if you have a clear
>    educational purpose. And as librarians, our educational purpose can simply
>    be "to foster a love of reading" or "to create a sense of community among
>    my students".  What I should NOT do is randomly read books on my YouTube
>    channel just because I think the books are great.  I need to have a *specific
>    educational purpose* in mind. Basically, if I would use the book in
>    the library, I can read the book online.
>    - BEST practice is to make a recording that could be used on an LMS,
>    Google Classroom, Schoolology, or any other limited or private
>    distribution, but if Facebook or YouTube are the options that will allow my
>    students to have access, then that is OK, too, because my educational
>    purpose would be "to ensure ALL my students have access."
>    - We do NOT need any sort of permission from publishers to do this.
>    Period. We are covered by Fair Use no matter what "limitations" or
>    "licensing" publishers have in place.
>
> I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you read and/or watch this webinar.  It was
> FANTASTIC and answered all my questions and cleared up misconceptions that
> I had!
>
> --
> Michelle Harris
> District Librarian
> Heyworth CUSD #4
>
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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-- 
Jill Bennin
Library Media Specialist - Sherrard CUSD #200
email: benninj at sherrard.us
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