[aisle] ESL Bits?

[Apra Mainardi]

In my previous district we had a School Improvement Coordinator tell our
English teachers they could use this website while we were out during the
shut down. I had an English teacher reach out to me because they wanted to
be sure they were not violating copyright laws. I'm with you on this...this
website is definitely a violation of copyright whether or not the students
are ESL students. The message from "Skip" at the bottom of the homepage
raises a lot of red flags..."*Skip is wholly responsible for this site and
has all the credit or all the blame as the case may be.  *
The sole purpose of this site is to help students improve their listening
and reading comprehension of the English language.
'BITS English Language Learning' is completely non-profit and contains no
advertising.
"BITS" is an online-only site. No links for downloading items are available
and none will be provided.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 11:40 AM Melissa Lambert via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone ever used the site ESL Bits to give an entire class access to
> audiobooks and ebooks? http://esl-bits.net/
>
> I have a teacher that wants to use it by posting it on his schoology page
> so students can access it from home or school. We do not have enough print
> copies of the class novel and it is not in the budget to order more. His
> students are not ESL. They are mixed gen ed and special ed.
>
> Here is what they have listed on their website under copyright/legal
> <http://esl-bits.net/advanced-listening/copyright2.html>.
>
> It still seems against copyright law to me. What do you think?
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
> _______________________________________________
> AISLE mailing list
> AISLE at list.railslibraries.info
>
> For list archives and subscription options, visit:
> http://list.railslibraries.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aisle
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to:
> aisle-leave at list.railslibraries.info
>
> https://www.aisled.org/



-- 
Apra Mainardi
District Teacher-Librarian
Winnebago High School

-- 
This transmission is intended and restricted for use by the above addressee 
only and may contain CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR PRIVILEGED INFORMATION WHICH MAY 
BE EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE LAW. Any unauthorized 
review, use, dissemination, distribution, downloading, or copying of this 
communication or any of its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have 
received this communication in error, please immediately notify the listed 
sender by reply email, and take necessary steps to delete the file from 
your system and destroy any hard copies of this transmission.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.railslibraries.info/pipermail/aisle/attachments/20210317/b0b87399/attachment.html>