In order to try to alleviate some of the problem with the removal of BBC JAM on the 20th of March I am going to try to get as many of the BBC Jam Pots downloaded as possible. I will then work out a way for schools to be able to get them and get the play installed. This was the advice given to us by Andy Pendry from the BBC.
If you want to download your own Jam pots then go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/jam/pots/
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Susan Kubitz
// Mar 17, 2007 at 4:36 am
Have just pursued the link from Ewan’s to Gordon’s blog, having been shocked by the “Jam” news on the Linguanet forum.
At http://www.bbc.co.uk/jam/pots/ I get the following message:
“There is a problem.
It looks like you’re not in the UK. This means you won’t be able to download BBC jam pots.
If you are in the UK, contact us to get help.
If you go to a British Forces school overseas, you can apply to use BBC jam pots by sending us an overseas learner form. ”
I don’t qualify on either front, but I teach “Britische Landeskunde” to students at a Technical University in the East of Germany. I refer these students and all my other language learners constantly to the BBC “Learning English” pages put out by the World Service. I’m quite sure the Government gets huge value for money from the World Service (which, as you probably know, gets its funding from the Foreign Office). I’d like to suggest that the way round the Jam closure is to get the World Service to take it over.
If, however, my prosyletisation of this idea would expose my dearly beloved World Service to similar predatory envy from commercial producers of such glorious stuff as is to be found there, please will someone erase this email!!!
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John Connell: the blog » Blog Archive » Action for the BBC…
// Mar 17, 2007 at 11:46 am
[...] But I haven’t seen a single suggestion barring. Gordon Mckinlay’s practical one (http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/) about things we might do about this. [...]
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Neil Winton
// Mar 17, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Hi Gordon,
Would it be worth trying to co-ordinate the downloads so we get them all? How about a wiki as a starting point?
Let me know how I can be of assistance.
Cheers,
Mr W
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gordonmckinlay
// Mar 17, 2007 at 6:39 pm
This is a good idea except that O have literally just down it all! Happy to shar. I think it is about 5Gigabytes
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EdCompBlog
// Jun 5, 2007 at 3:02 am
Stephen Heppell talks to a sick dog…
You may have seen this already… but Stephen Heppell has some news about BBC Jam…
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David Muir
// Jun 5, 2007 at 3:18 am
You may have seen this already but Stephen Heppell was able to offer a glimmer of hope on the BBC Jam front. See “Heppell talks to a Sick Dog”.
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