Comments on: Pots of Jam http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/ Developing learning with ICT in Renfrewshire Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:57:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: David Muir http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-474 David Muir Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:18:30 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-474 You may have seen this already but Stephen Heppell was able to offer a glimmer of hope on the BBC Jam front. See <a href="http://edcompblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/heppell-talks-to-sick-dog.html" rel="nofollow">"Heppell talks to a Sick Dog"</a>. 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”.

]]> By: EdCompBlog http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-473 EdCompBlog Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:02:44 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-473 <strong>Stephen Heppell talks to a sick dog...</strong> You may have seen this already... but Stephen Heppell has some news about BBC Jam... Stephen Heppell talks to a sick dog…

You may have seen this already… but Stephen Heppell has some news about BBC Jam…

]]> By: gordonmckinlay http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-435 gordonmckinlay Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:39:36 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-435 This is a good idea except that O have literally just down it all! Happy to shar. I think it is about 5Gigabytes This is a good idea except that O have literally just down it all! Happy to shar. I think it is about 5Gigabytes

]]> By: Neil Winton http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-434 Neil Winton Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:35:10 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-434 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 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

]]> By: John Connell: the blog » Blog Archive » Action for the BBC… http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-430 John Connell: the blog » Blog Archive » Action for the BBC… Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:46:16 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-430 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Susan Kubitz http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/comment-page-1/#comment-423 Susan Kubitz Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:36:36 +0000 http://gordonmckinlay.edublogs.org/2007/03/15/pots-of-jam/#comment-423 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!!! 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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