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April 22, 2013
#DMCA COMPLAINT – DOWNLOADING @STAIDENSHSCHOOL CONTENT FROM THIS WEBSITE IS ILLEGAL – RATHER ASK, I WILL GIVE IT #HOMESCHOOL #EDUCATION
You know, I have no difficulty sharing my personally-created and obtained resources, or that information which I am duly (and legally) authorized to offer for download from my website http://www.staienshomeschool.com, or even some of my other sites and blogs, and I feel the need to put this “out there”.
BUT I have a really hard time dealing with the fact that there are so many people who are quite adept at skimming and skirting and downloading PDF ebooks, without knowledge or consent of the originator of the material, or the website owner, or the copyright owner, and uploading these to either their own or other websites, available, either for free, or for premium-paid membership.
I recently discovered a number of websites that have my documents on their servers. One has 292 documents, another has 135, another has something like 70.
When www.scribd.com first started, I was one of the first, in terms of where they are today, to join the Scribd community, and happily have over 800 documents published with them, available for free download to help, inspire and educate. With almost 3 million views/downloads I am happy to be part of the Scribd community.
When www.docstoc.com first opened its site I too was one of the initial members, and quickly uploaded over 200 ebooks and documents, again for free, to educate, assist and hopefully inspire other homeschooling families that they too CAN educate their children in a safe and nurturing environment at little or no cost, and that it does not take a genius to create your own curriculum.
By 2007 I was published as an author. By 2009 I had progressed from basic units to writing books that are published worldwide. While I have exclusive contracts with some publishers, I thought long and hard and decided there was still much to learn and write about which I could share, and offer a value-for-money educational download through Docstoc, with whom I had been since, oh, I don’t recall when, maybe 2007/2008, when they first started in any event.
They very quickly informed me that my work was not “up to their standards” – what? When I see what is on offer for sale in many online book/document stores, I would have thought my work was very much higher than their average standard. Be that as it may, I deleted my account, and asked that all my titles be removed with immediate effect. This was done as per my request.
However, I see that since then 292 of my documents, directly downloaded from my website have been uploaded to this same website, albeit by members, and not by the webmaster/s themselves. And to cap it all, they are marked as “Public Domain”. When I signed in with Facebook and attempted to download one of my own documents, I was redirected to a page that asked me to upgrade to “PREMIUM”… to pay for something of my own?
This begs the question about what measures are put in place to prevent this sort of personal and/or copyright infringement of others? While I have made my works available for free download on a number of sites, it is with their request or by permission granted, and I have willingly, quite happily shared these resources. However, my work is NOT in the public domain, has never been released into the public domain, and any derivative works I create utilizing public domain resources, remain my own. Hence I own the copyright of derivatives, format, layout, and redigitalized or re-worked content.
My work remains my own, and at http://www.staidenshomeschool.com all of these titles that are being downloaded and uploaded to other sites without my knowledge and permission, are, as far as I am concerned, a direct infringement of my rights and the laws which govern copyright universally. Why, I ask myself. The stuff is there on my website, it is free, it is LEGAL, and if you search through the 30000 odd pages (it may be less or more with the new restructuring of the website) you will find even more valuable FREE downloads, full printable games, full printable ebooks, teaching manuals, parenting manuals, craft activities, worksheets, entire books of hundreds of pages. Why would anyone want to take something that is owned by someone (website 1) and make it publicly available by websites 2 and 3 – and in many cases, for a fee?
People obviously are not aware of the amount of work and the effort it takes to actually research and put together something that is aesthetically pleasing and serves a valuable purpose. Education is for everyone, and I am the first to offer to share my work – for free, and I am eternally grateful to those authors who authorize me to include portions of their work into mine, or to those who have inspired me to push the envelope and take me right outside of my comfort zone to create even better, more appealing units.
My titles with publishers are available for very small considerations, do not cost the earth and you can obtain an entire year’s worth of subject material for probably less than $10,00. In fact most of the comprehensive works are available for less than $5,00 via my publishers.
Why do I sell them then if I go on so much about “free stuff” I am happy to share? Well that’s simple enough. My website costs me a lot of money to host. It is not a free website. In fact I am on one of the most expensive web packages I know. The bandwidth cost in South Africa is more expensive than anywhere else and just as an aside, I also have a full time job as mother, wife, and a full time job in the legal field, so my time is really at a premium. So the simple answer is “To help cover costs…” simple, end of story.
So, Docstoc, I am afraid that our very long relationship has come to an unpleasant end, and a DMCA notice has officially been served and received. Would I even have bothered to check if I still had my account? You betcha! Because I kept on coming up with alerts from websites I had never heard of selling items of mine that are available for free from my website.
Or you know what? If you want something desperately and it is not free, it is from one of my publishers, email me. I’ll GIVE it to you if you need it to complete your child’s education.
It’s never been about money. It’s been about education, children, and furthering the ideals and principles of homeschooling in a country where the public education system is so much of a disaster that it is officially bankrupt and 75% of the teachers are not even qualified to be called teachers. If they actually pitch up at the schools designated them. And now it becomes about protecting my rights, as you would protect yours!
I learned the hard way about copyright infringement, fair use, and the like, and then researched everything I could. And still sometimes I am not sure, so I find out, ask questions, but this – this is flagrant disregard for the law. Please be fair to those who work really hard at providing free teaching materials, they really are not in it for the money!
March 19, 2013
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February 4, 2013
CurrClick Weekly News: Setting Up A Student Directed Program For All Subjects, amazing freebies also
I thought it would be fitting to mark down 50% on all my products in keeping with this Chinese Unit Study and Activity Pack you get as a FREEBIE, for free, nothing gratis, as this week’s awesome download. And feel free to share this information.
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Date: 04 February 2013 10:26:07 PM SAST
Subject: CurrClick Weekly News: Setting Up A Student Directed Program For All Subjects
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It covers the basic history, meaning and origins of the Chinese New Year holiday. Original coloring pages and mazes have been included for younger chldren. These images were created by myself from sourced photographs and clipart, and so won’t be found anywhere else.
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Setting Up A Student Directed Program For All Subjects
Why should you encourage student directed learning? The main reason is it enables a child to be an active participant in their learning process instead of dependent on being told when and what they should do and learn. A student directed program empowers students to become independent learners, which translates directly into becoming independent, self directed and responsible adults.
How to begin:
1. Relinquish control of when, where and how the students do their assignments because it makes them dependent.2. Look upon the job of teaching students as one where you motivate and facilitate by gathering challenging material and being there if they ask for guidance.
3. Allow students to do their assignments in their own learning style. For example:
a. Some students procrastinate and put off their assignments until the very last minute.
b. Some like to budget their time by using an assignment sheet and figuring out what they will do and when.
c. Some like to do the hard assignments first and save the easy for last.
d. Some like to do the easy assignments first and save the hard for last.
e. Some like to do it all on the first day and spend the rest of the week doing exactly what they want, within the parental guidelines.4. Provide a comfortable learning environment, which allows for appropriate music and a snack, but don’t be surprised if the student chooses some other place because they feel comfortable there and it is conducive to learning for them. The goal is to get the assignments completed in the time specified.
Setting up your program:
1. Give students a weekly calendar, date book or scheduling sheet so they can allocate when they will be working on their weekly assignments.2. On Monday:
a. Provide your student/students with a folder that contains all of their assignments for the week. It should include any books, workbooks and worksheets; all instructions with due dates and any rubrics and scoring guides that go with the assignments.
b. Teach any new skills that are being introduced, so student will be well prepared to do the lessons and assignments.
c. Go over all instructions including:• Due dates so there will be no misunderstanding on when you expect them to turn in their papers.
• Rubrics that help students accomplish the lessons.
• Scoring guides that let students know what the expectations are and how they will be evaluatedd. Explain the consequence if they do not get their assignments in on the specified date. This is HUGE! They must know what will happen if they do not schedule their work correctly or if they procrastinate and don’t get it finished at all. Here is a suggested consequence that works because the student chooses how long it will last, which is huge. Make sure they understand that they are in control of the duration and not you, the parent. The student will have no one to blame but themselves if the choose to spend the entire weekend doing the late or unfinished assignments.
• Set up a special area with a desk or table, a chair and any materials the child might need to do the assignments such as a computer, pencils, pens, paper, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.
• Inform the student that this special area will be where they will reside until their assignments are finished. Meaning they may only go to the bathroom, eat at the desk and sleep in their bed until any and all late papers and assignments are finished correctly and to the very best of their ability. Sloppy work will not be accepted.
• Do not allow the student to play any electronic games, read for pleasure, play with friends, socialize on the phone by talking or texting, go to the movies, or any other activity other than finishing their assignments. (Do not stop doing activities that must be done as a family like shopping for food, going to church, etc., but bring th! e child back to the study areas as soon as you return. The movies, or fun shopping sprees and activities should be postponed until the assignments are finished.)
• Initially students may deliberately choose to not complete any or all of the assignments according to the weekly plan. If this happens, the expectation can and should be that they have to spend their free time making up for not budgeting their time wisely by completing all unfinished assignments in the designated area. It only takes a few lost hours of a weekend and having fun with friends and family to cure the problem.3. Now step back and allow student/students to work on their assignments for the week. Keep in mind that it may take some time before being a self-directed learner really becomes fully realized, but it is certainly worth the effort for the future of the child.
My book The Book On How To Really Teach Writing has the scheduling guides, rubrics, and scoring guides for setting up an individualized student directed program. It will also show you how to teach all types of writing, offers wonderful writing prompts and even includes a poetry unit.
Judith spent ten ! years teaching elementary school, grades K, 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and twenty years teaching middle school language arts/social studies in the 6th, 7th, 8th grades. She taught in New Mexico, Texas, and Alaska, She is currently helping homeschool her two granddaughters by helping set up their program and providing them with all of their language arts lessons.
All of the lessons she’s developed promote independent student directed learning. Her writing and language arts curriculum relieves the stress of teaching by greatly reducing grading and paperwork time, and makes learning more productive and less stressful for students. Parents are constantly giving positive feedback on the way the lessons take the paperwork out of teaching, and how much the students like being independent learners because they feel empowered. She is currently working on a social studies program that will teach American history.
Judith writes and self publishes all of the materials offe! red on her web site. Her titles are also offer at CurrClick.com
She has six beautiful grandchildren that fill her life up to the brim.
January 31, 2013
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This Chinese New Year Activity Pack and Comprehensive Unit Study comprises a unit study in simple English, that is suitable to almost any homeschool setting, and can be adapted for learners from around grade 2, but created specifically for grades 3/4 upwards.
It covers the basic history, meaning and origins of the Chinese New Year holiday. [...]
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