Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h1RFh7P18711; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:43:08 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20030227093127.00a40870@mail.etop.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Lorraine Gardner <lad-oh@etop.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8663] Re: Writing in books X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1572 Lines: 44 I don't know if we had a photocopying budget. Our department had a password to use the copiers, so the college at least kept track of our usage. If we did have a limit, instructors were not informed about it (other than being asked to conserve whenever possible--using double-sided copies, for example). The CD-ROM with printable worksheets is a great idea, though! Lorraine Gardner lad-oh@etop.org At 10:11 AM 2/27/03 -0500, you wrote: >Do you have a budget for photocopies? Or is that a problem also? >Just curious to know if a text series that offered an accompanying CD >ROM that came with the Teacher edition and that had worksheets that you >could print off, would be attractive? >Cathy Shank > > >-----Original Message----- >From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Lorraine >Gardner >Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:03 AM >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:8661] Re: Writing in books > >This is definitely the ideal situation, I agree. However, in the >non-credit >community college ESL/ABE programs in which I have taught, the only way >students could have their own book was to buy it themselves. Some did, >but >the vast majority could not afford it. So if I wanted to give students >an >assignment to work on at home, I had to make photocopies. With the >budget >cuts going on nowadays, I imagine the situation will not change any time > >soon. It's not the ideal, but it's the situation that many of us have to >face. > >Lorraine Gardner >Academic/Workplace Skills Instructor >Omaha, NE >lad-oh@etop.org
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