Dera--
If students are buying the books and the segments will go up for essentially homework purposes, then come down, chances are publishers will find some way to accomodate the request, especially if stuff is password protected. Given that, I'd ask for permission.
It might also be that publishers have the content in some digital format.
My daughter, for example, came home last night with a user name and password to a copy of her 8th grade natural science textbook. It's a Holt book and she goes to their online learning site (http://my.hrw.com/hrw/login_all.jsp -- if you go there you'll see sample books; btw, Dera, this site also offers a pretty good collection of free --either by supplied content or link to other WWW sources-- of stuff that might be useful to students and worth linking to from your library at http://go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/pHome
So maybe the first step is to see what digital publishing programs publishers have.
A second would be, when you're negotiating book deals with publishers is to tell them this is a need -- you want books where you can get this kind of content, either to use as you've outlined or to use in the way Holt provides the content.
All that said, I agree that for sustained reading, print is still best. But for reference work, applying book concepts interactively, study guide quizzing (so students can check their own progress on what they're retaining from the reading), and some types of research, having content online is a big advantage.
Nick Carbone......................ncarbone[_at_]bedfordstmartins.comBedford/St. Martins New Media, Boston Received on Fri Sep 27 2002 - 13:22:57 GMT
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