Realistically, no one’s gonna pay you for your PPTs, and if they did, it wouldn’t be much. Because you worked hard on your materials, you won’t share them with others? Shouldn’t it be the opposite line of thinking- “I’ve worked hard on this so I’d like it to be used / seen / learned by thousands of students rather than just those in my school.”Teaching is about helping. As many as we can, as much as we can. We want to make the world a better place.
Well, if 20 bucks really breaks your back, then more power to ya.
I often found ppts to be mediocre back in the day so rarely used them. I only occasionally found one to be stellar. So, when I switched over to elementary from middle school a few years back and the textbooks changed, I had no choice but to use my own or make them. I took templates from past books and had to reinvent them quite a bit. I also got sent around to other schools and got other textbooks and asked why there wasn't much materials on these books. So, I posted a few materials then found some others got into the act of contributing. It is my hope when the new books come out again, that others will pay it forward. I shared for these current books, but doubt I will for the next books. Others will have to take mine and others materials and pay it forward. I hope this will be the case. I may share a few things, but I won't share very much. I was as I said, seriously underwhelmed by what I saw off this site before.
You mean you’re being paid via tax money?
How about going beyond specified duties at little to no cost to yourself? (Doesn’t take a big amount of time to upload files.)
You feel you should be additionally compensated, therefore you’re not going to share? And because you put in hard work you won’t share?
The reality is you’re not going to be paid by a website or other teachers, so why not put it out into the universe to be used and enjoyed by others?
With the additional time freed up, teachers can make more materials and better the curriculum, uploading more materials. A few might do that… hopefully…
You think if people used your PPTs when teaching privates that’d cut into your business? Seems unlikely. People on this site teach at public schools and don’t do privates. (Exceptions are rare.)
But we’re teachers. We should strive to help others. That’s what teaching is - a helping profession.
But that doesn't entail letting others take advantage of them, either. There were a ton of people constantly posting stuff up on waygook, but they took their business elsewhere after waygook put up the paywall because they basically saw the action as an unethical attempt to profit off the free materials that other people have made. Even though excuses were given for this, a lot of the actions that followed the paywall didn't really make sense in regard to them. They only make sense from a profit-standpoint. So even though there are ways around the paywall, a lot of users became disillusioned with the site in general and abandoned it altogether while other users went on to create different sites for posting materials. For the ones who left for other sites, though, this disillusionment kind of followed them so that none of these sites are anywhere near as active as waygook used to be. Now most people I know share their materials via shared chatroom drives or with people they know irl.Waygook still has a lot of resources posted by users who've long left Korea, though, users who never deleted their content because they weren't around when shit hit the fan. It's just a little outdated, nothing a little time and effort can't fix as long as you don't mind paying to access those materials.For me personally, I am currently sharing my materials with others. I'm just not uploading them online atm. I was actually waiting to post all of my materials once I'm ready to leave Korea since most of it can identify me irl, and I guess I still plan to, but it won't be on waygook.org.
I was actually waiting to post all of my materials once I'm ready to leave Korea since most of it can identify me irl, and I guess I still plan to, but it won't be on waygook.org.
Putting it out there sooner than later is better because of Murphy’s Law
For me, I first only deleted my materials that were copyright problems--when the site was free to use, the educational use exception would prevent most problems, perhaps at worst at C&D. But Walt Disney is extremely litigious, so I pulled down anything Disney, Marvel, Star Wars etc etc. Then the folks in charge here got all shirty and behaved like complete jerks, so i took everything down, and have relocated to hosting site that is free for users up and down.
Chinguetti, How about posting the stuff without identifiers? Putting it out there sooner than later is better because of Murphy’s Law, plus it’s more time for people to use it, meaning more uses, which would be a greater overall benefit to students and teachers.
I just want to be compensated for my time and effort.