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Originally Posted by lestatar
^ re: the ads. We all know money is tight, especially, sadly, for schools. If the choice is between K3 ads and less books, I say go with the ads. You can always make a new lesson plan explaining basic economic considerations and strategies in the modern age to your kids. They gotta learn sometime, right?  And I understand the K3 ads aren't terribly annoying anyways, at last from some folks I have heard from. |
Actually, I'm a researcher at the local university, not actually a teacher in the local schools (so no lesson plans), but money is tight here too right now :-/ . My boss/PI is the queen of grants, yet this is the only thing she is able to provide me with right now after submitting several over the last year [we've just finished a huge multi-university grant that had many folks at full or half-time, as desired; went from that to nothing]. (Get this, my stipend out of this grant is $5000, which we decided to split over 18 months just to keep me employed with the university. That's 6.5% time, if the business office did the math right. Technically that's 2.6 hours/week.)
My goal is to have as much money available for books as possible, so that if some kid is really plowing through them, or I didn't find the right books to interest a particular kid, I can go buy more (assuming that book is on kindle). Also, I intend to get the Harry Potter books for them when those are available, and I don't know what the rules or cost on those will be. If I can save money by getting the KSO or by finding less expensive covers or by lucking into a colleague who is willing to do some of the translations of parent permissions for free because she feels she has benefitted from feedback from our group, so much the better. For me, it's about the kids at the school (it obviously isn't about getting a paycheck, though it
is in
small part about staying associated with the university as long as possible, but I also need to be connected with the university for that period of time just to do the study at all).
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re: where to post. I am new here, but I would think either the Kindle forum or the General Discussion sub-forum would be OK. Kinda leaning towards the Kindle forum myself since that is the HW you will go with. And your observations on how the K3's survive the kids would be of more interest to Kindle owners specifically.
Either is fine IMO. 
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Perhaps I'll post a short message in the general section referencing the project then post from then on in the Kindle section.
Thanks for your interest in our study!
Carolyn