[games_access] JAM to be suspended

[Reid Kimball]

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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