---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: Ron Stoloff <rstoloff@MAIL.PHILA.K12.PA.US>
Subject: Re: What gives? Classroom Connect
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>francey@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU writes:
>>What do
>>others think about this type of commercial phenomenon?
>
>Well. I can't imagine that something that expensive would sell when so
>much is available for free on the Web. In fact, Scholastic Network, until
>now a paid subscription service, is going to be free for educators
>starting next fall. I know (since I sent some colleagues to them) that
>Scholastic has been having focus groups galore with teachers which no
>doubt influenced their decision. So Classroom Connect and Scholastic seem
>to be going in totally different Internet directions!
>Monica
Simple: the site is so vast and so unknown to the outside world that any
kind of native guide will sell.
But then, that's the purpose of *our* projects, isn't it?
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jan 04 2000 - 12:24:19 EST