[Nfb-krafters-korner] Some Thoughts

[Eileen Scrivani]

Henrietta:

I appreciate your concerns from a student's perspective.  Truthfully though 
and not meant to hurt anyone's feelings, the recordings as they stand is so 
poor from both sound quality & the additional burden of being loaded  with 
so much irrelavant chatter they would have to be heavily edited & all 
unrelated talk totally cut out.  .  I don't even want to hear all of it in 
those cases when I've had to go back and re-listen to a class and if I had 
to pay money for a recorded lesson I'd be upset if I heard all that 
unrelated junk on a recorded lesson.  The major importance to me as an 
instructor who wants her creations & ideas protected is that the recordings 
contains the core and building blocks for me if I ever choose to do more 
with them in terms of possibly building my own business or even using my own 
created teaching tools, & my documents to teach others not associated with 
the nfb KKd.  Not for nothing but I'm a good teacher and I do teach others 
unrelated to this group how to knit.  Rest assured when I teach others I'm 
not pulling out an mp3 player with a recording saying, "listen to this!" 
<SMILE> If the NFB claimed these materials as their's I would be prohibited 
from using materials I put together, spent hours documenting and thinking 
through the wording, presentation and ways to explain the materials by 
distance learning.  That would be a very unfair situation to me.  I'm very 
sorry for those who just don't want to hear all of this because they just 
don't care what's happening and only want what they want.

Eileen


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From: "Henrietta Brewer" <gary.brewer at comcast.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:49 PM
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Some Thoughts

> We also have to remember that when members of the class talk on the 
> recordings they become part of the situation. When I am struggling with a 
> craft and ask lots of questions and feel as though I sound dumb I am doing 
> it thinking that the info will be given to only those at the class. It 
> might be harder for members of a class to ask questions if they are 
> concerned about the recording being distributed to others.
>
> This is just a thought. Please take this message as something to think 
> about. I don't have answers, just lots of questions.
> Henrietta
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Lucy Cox wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have been reading the messages concerning the recordings lately. It 
>> seems reasonable that teachers be able to maintain the rights to their 
>> materials if they choose. It would seem that unless each teacher signed 
>> an agreement expressly giving KK the rights, then it would remain the 
>> property of the teacher. It is also understandable that the division 
>> would like to share the wealth of knowledge in these recordings. Maybe as 
>> a compromise, there could be an additional line added to the proposal 
>> that teachers fill out asking if they are willing to let KK have the 
>> rights to the class recording and documents.  If the teacher agrees to 
>> relinquish the rights to KK, then that particular class would be 
>> available for future sale and distribution. If not, then the students who 
>> can make it to that class benefit and the teacher is still making a 
>> contribution. KK could go through previous classes and obtain agreements 
>> with those instructors to acquire the rights. This would create some 
>> extra work
> for someone, but it would resolve this issue and all participants would be 
> legally protected.
>>
>> This may not be the most ideal solution, but hopefully it can be the 
>> beginning to an open and respectful dialog to resolving it.
>>
>> Krafters Korner is a valuable resource and we have to ensure that it 
>> remains so for blind crafters and teachers alike.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Lucy
>>
>> septembergirl95 at gmail.com
>>
>> A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though 
>> he knows that you are slightly cracked.
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