Hi Mary, Some time ago I used an article from the Times for a reading comprehension exercise and in order to have it online I had to ask for a special permission and stick it on the page (or else pay $ 2000 to have it. See: http://beespace.net/resources/hotpot/wtc1.html
Some published content can be easily downloaded and worked upon like for instance http://beespace.net/resources/logo/index.html In some cases, however, especially for articles placed under a password, this permission was denied or I'd have to buy it (for a single use). Linking directly to the article poses problems because of link rot - if we have no access to the source, the whole exercise is lost. For foreign language teachers, topical articles in newspapers are a bonus and so are some of the photographs. Maybe Wikieducator, as an institution, could try to dialogue with the main press publishers to allows us to copy them into the wiki and link back, mentioning and crediting the source so as to have them more available. I am sure they realize this would be a way to diffuse and give an added value to their content as well. Warm regards from Brazil, Bee BTW, I am planning to shift most of this material from my website to Wikieducator (time permitting). -- Barbara Dieu http://barbaradieu.com http://beespace.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
