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Subject: Re: What gives? Classroom Connect
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Is it legal for a company to take a government sponsored website and sell
it? Sybil
At 10:29 AM 3/25/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>I just got a catalog from the Classroom Connect people ("Our passion at
>Classroom Connect is to support you in creating powerful learning
>experiences for your students by integrating the Internet into your
>classroom curriculum"). They are advertising a product ("New for Spring!")
>called "American Memory Primary Sources." There are four CD-ROMs, each
>with a unit on a different theme. Each unit comes with a 112-page
>curriculum guide, the CD "for speedy access," and a one-year membership to
>a companion web site that gets you a password to the "special Primary
>Sources Web site," which includes reproducible student pages, links to
>primary sources and history sites, and links to American Memory.
>
>I think it's interesting that people would pay ($69.95 for one unit,
>$225.00 for all four) for something that's essentially free. A question
>for the teachers out there: how much do you use these types of full-blown
>teacher guides that come with various classroom resources? I guess I've
>thought of the lessons we've developed as being conceptual templates rather
>than step-by-step handholding guides. I suppose that this Classroom
>Connect product line is just another venue for American Memory, another way
>to get the word out. I wonder if the "special Primary Sources Web site"
>links to the Learning Page and the lessons that are posted there. What do
>others think about this type of commercial phenomenon?
>
>Frances
>
>
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