Hi Bee, Thank you for sharing this and I am anxiously waiting to see your work on WikiEducator. Let me know how I can be of help. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Integrating Technology for Active Life-long Learning (IT4ALL) http://www.integrating-technology.com/pd Get ready for CO10 at WiZiQ: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops using WiZiQ: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Barbara Dieu <beeonl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
