BBC Jam

It was reported yesterday on a number of blogs (Changing the game?; John Connell) and by the Guardian that BBC Jam 'will not be relaunched in any form after the troubled service was suddenly pulled last year, it emerged yesterday. BBC Jam, an ambitious curriculum online digital education aid for five- to 16-year-olds, was suspended last March by the BBC Trust in the first big ruling by the new body despite more than £75m of the budget having been spent.'

So again I ask. Where are the assets? Where are the valuable education resources now? I really do want children to get value for money here. It is not a matter of relaunch, there is a host of exciting resources available already to be used. Just where are they. I really do want what I and all licence buyers have already paid for.

I just cannot believe this statement: '... the majority of content prepared for BBC Jam, which included interactive games and projects linked to the curriculum, will have to be junked.'

It sound like 'sour grapes' ... you didn't let us play in the way we wanted to so we are taking our ball away ... and just so that no-one can play with it we are going to burst it and then hide it so that you will never ever find it.

This is just not good enough ... someone should be shouting foul and holding up a red card. This is a 'sending-off' offence!



PS

Further comment on this from John Connell and a comment on his blog by Neil Liversey.