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Siobhain Archer

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  1. Hi Graham Yes, this is a tricky area and involves lots of legalese (thanks to a fairly expensive expert lawyer!). In brief, we ask all our key contributors to sign a copyright and royalty programme that a) asserts the work is theirs and assigns the full copyright to us. The last thing we would want is to pass off work belonging to others as ours, though I'm sure the collaborative nature of teaching does mean that this happens more often than educational publishers might care to admit! Hope this is of use. Siobhain
  2. It felt strange reading this thread and I wasn't sure whether to respond - but here goes anyway ... I'm the first to admit that Teachit is not yet perfect and there are many ways we could improve, including * supplementing the materials we have for A/AS, particularly Lang * increasing resources for Media and Drama * working on our interactive materials *adding more PowerPoint and IWB materials. All of this and much more is already underway so do keep an eye on developments. On the other hand (and when I'm not worrying too much about the length of the to-do list!), I'm incredibly proud of Teachit and the service we offer. As far as I am aware we are unique for the following reasons: 1. We offer around 4500 pages of photocopiable resources completely free of charge and add on average 19 pages of completely new materials each and every week. These go through a rigorous editing system and this has helped us earn a reputation for trust-worthy, user-friendly and accurate materials. 2. We have since 2002 opened our files and now provide the editable raw material at very low cost - at £16 - £30 our annual subscription is about the same as the price of a video and works out at around 1p per resource. This allows members to adapt the materials to suit their own needs. 3. We share our revenues (not just our profits) with our team of contributors and editors each of whom receives a quarterly cheque from us. 4. We were the first English website to become Curriculum Online approved and work closely with NATE. We also provide other free services such as the staffroom discussion area and pupils' published work areas, as well as hosting the Association of Teacher Websites site. Many thanks to Andrew and others for your endorsements. I hope we continue to live up to these. Any further queries feel free to get in touch! Siobhain Archer Editor Teachit
  3. Teachit.co.uk is an online library for English, Drama and Media teachers from Key Stage 2 to Post-16. It offers free photocopiable resources (currently over 4000 pages of these), online lessons, links, a staffroom and more for free, while members of our subscription service, Teachit.plus can access the editable files for customising and differentiating, or even running on screen. Our team of key contributors and editors are all active classroom teachers and many of these are signed up for our profit share programme. It's an enormous project - little did I imagine when I started playing with Front Page in my spare time four years ago just how big it would become! Siobhain Archer, Teachit Ed.
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