[games_access] JAM to be suspended

Reid Kimball reid at rbkdesign.com
Sun Mar 18 18:57:39 EDT 2007


That's bollocks. They should be encouraging this or partner with the
BBC in some way if they are worried about profits. Seems wrong to do
this, pressuring the BBC to stop doing a good thing.

-Reid

On 3/18/07, Barrie Ellis <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk> wrote:
> Sad news taken from SEN Teacher:
>
> http://www.senteacher.org/BBC/?PHPSESSID=1f2a4b5e9b5af543468abb42373e38c3
>
> Free [UK] elearning resources from The Beeb to cease next week
>
> The BBC has been required to suspend its free online learning service from
> March 20th after complaints from a number of large educational publishers
> concerned that their profits will suffer if a Government funded free
> learning resource for parents and schools is established.
>
> Until March 20th it will still be possible to download many of the
> activities for offline use once the online service is no longer available.
> Sadly it looks like most of the content may never appear, but there are
> still plenty of useful activities to download for various subjects and ages
> including all of the SEN Field Studies environments.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/jam/pots/11_14/sldfs/
>
> It is unclear if these resources will be back online - grab them while you
> can!
>
> Download BBC jam Pots:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/jam/pots/
>
> BBC Press release on BBC jam Suspension:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/03_march/14/jam.shtml
>
>
>
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