I really appreciated the article on
publishing by teachers. I try to publishinh
especially as a recently retired teacher
and find it frustrating and elating. The
statement that sometimes you have to send
something around 50 times before it gets
published is comforting since many of my
articles do not get published after a few
attempts, but then later sometimes they do,
even when apparently inferior work is often
published immediately because the authors
areconnected. Therefore, I formed my own
small publishing company, not necessarily
for profit, but as a method of getting in
print. I waited for three years to gt an
article published in a Classics journal,
only to have the editor die in the process.
Only by chance did I drive by the company
and saw a few people standing outside trying
to figure out what to do with the copy
machines and binding machines did I
fortunately get my article published with
their help. The article turnedout to be
significant somewhat in Minoan and Mycenean
archeology and I was lucky to have it
published. I have learned not to wait
like that. Also, I copyright everything
i send out to protect my ideas. Also, I try
to present the ideas I send out at some
convention as a paper where the abstract
is listed and archived.

I also send as much as I can to ERIC, the
educational clearinghouse, which lists
educational publications especially, to get
some worldwide exposure and permanent
listing.
Often, students, from graduate school to
high school use the ERIC database and no
other to get articles for term papers and
theses. My articles, including the one just
published in THE TEACHERS GAZETTE, are
listed in ERIC, if accepted to generate some
kind of permanence, especially if they are
on the internet.

Therefore, I uge all publishers on the
internet such as those in the TEACHERS
GAZETTE to list their articles in ERIC
which can be found on the ERIC website.
to gain permanence of a sort for their
writings. THANKS KATHLEEN for publishing
me in THE TEAHCERS GAZETTE twice.

Stewart E Brekke, MS in Ed, MA

stewart e brekke, sbrekk@cs.com,
3/07/02

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