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CyberEd #31481 11/23/08 08:07 PM
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864 Q questions OP Member
OP questions Member Q Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864	www.cybered.net is going out of business. Quote Dear CyberEd customers, Please be advised that CyberEd, Inc. has decided to discontinue distribution of all products created and/or sold by CyberEd and to cease business operations. Effectively immediately, CyberEd, Inc. will no longer accept new orders for products sold by or through CyberEd/PLATO Science. Thank you for all your support and input over the past 14 years. It has been a pleasure and an honor creating effective interactive science software for science teachers and their students. CyberEd Teaching Resources Over the years, CyberEd has developed study guides, test questions, activities and other resources that could be used in conjunction with our award-winning digital courseware content. These materials will remain available to science teachers through December 10, 2008. Please don�t miss this opportunity to retrieve these materials before they are no longer available. Please note that PLATO Learning will continue to offer subscription-based access to our science products. Visit www.plato.com or call 800.44.PLATO for more information. The teacher resources are fabulous - http://www.cybered.net/CyberEd_Index.asp?IndexType=Resources Who here can tell me how I can easily copy all the links? (For instance, click on biology and check out the links). I can copy the tests and quizzes one by one, as there aren't all that many, but is there anyway to copy some of the many links without linking on them all? I plan to call plato.com tomorrow to see if they can move the info over to their site. Doubtful, but worth a try. Meanwhile, I know there are many on this site with expertise in computers. Thanks!

Re: CyberEd questions #31482 11/23/08 08:16 PM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs JBDad Member
JBDad Member Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs	There are a few pieces of software that you can use to archive a site. Like http://www.httrack.com/ I just googled on "archive web site". There are probably a few out there you can use. Also, the waybackmachine at http://www.archive.org/ is very handy if you don't get a chance to do that before a site goes down. Sad to see a site go out of business, but unfortunately it's not unusual, particularly not now. JB

Re: CyberEd JBDad #31483 11/23/08 08:21 PM
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OP questions Member Q Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864	Thanks, JBDad. Do you know how large a site like this would be? Could I just copy it to a dvd using httrack.com? That would be a huge time saver. We're using a few of the courses, and if they continue to offer the others, we'll probably do the others as well. DS8 loves them. Seems weird to be able to copy a website. Is that legal? It does say help yourself to our resources before it goes down...

Re: CyberEd questions #31492 11/24/08 05:27 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs JBDad Member
JBDad Member Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs	It's probably not that big of a site, so yes, I'd think it'd fit on a DVD just fine. If you're just using it to browse a site while you're offline (off the internet) I don't see a problem with it. I'm no lawyer mind you. But in earlier versions of browsers you can tag a site as available when you're offline and many "web acceleration" tools pre-fetch web pages. So I wouldn't worry about it. JB

Re: CyberEd JBDad #31494 11/24/08 06:04 AM
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OP questions Member Q Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864	Thanks. They're closing the site - I'd just like access to the info in the future, and they do say help yourself. Definitely worth a try. Thanks again!

Re: CyberEd questions #31504 11/24/08 08:02 AM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member
Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	So, wait, I'm already confused. Please talk to me as if I were an English major... What's the easiest way for a clueless computer loser user to copy the materials over to a DVD for our use? (I am also a subscriber, so I'm allowed to use them.) Kriston

Re: CyberEd Kriston #31511 11/24/08 09:08 AM
Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs JBDad Member
JBDad Member Joined: Apr 2008 Posts: 639 Phila 'burbs	Take a look at the software here http://www.httrack.com/ I have not use this particular one before, but I have used others. It should allow you to point the tool at a url like http://www.cybered.net and it will "crawl" the site and save all of the pages locally to your hard disk. Then you can burn that to a DVD or put it on your home network for future use. I have not use httrack so if that one doesn't work well or is confusing to use we can google for other archive software tools. Should be able to find something free. JB

Re: CyberEd JBDad #31512 11/24/08 09:16 AM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member
Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	Thanks, JBDad. Sorry to be so slow, but once we get past "Turn the computer on," I am easily confused... Kriston

Re: CyberEd Kriston #31549 11/24/08 02:23 PM
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864 Q questions OP Member
OP questions Member Q Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 864	I emailed them and they are going to try to make everything into a zip file for easy downloading. Save us all the trouble.

Re: CyberEd questions #31559 11/24/08 04:15 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest Kriston Member
Kriston Member Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 6,145 Midwest	Ah! Great. Thanks, Questions. I wouldn't have heard anything about this if you weren't on the ball. Kriston

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