On 06/13/2012 12:25 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I don't suppose any business is going to feel good about the
free-as-in-beer idea. But what RunRev have not done to my knowledge is
some sort of outreach to try to reel teachers in.
I have demonstrated RR/LC to a fairly large number of programming
teachers and heads-of-staff at school here in Bulgaria. They have all
expressed interest, great interest. But then gone back to their schools
where they teach PASCAL V ('tis free my love) or C++ (endless textbooks
on the subject).
The RunRev crew rarely posts to this user-to-user list, so the best
way to stay up on what they're doing is either to subscribe to their
Twitter feed or check out their blog - here's a sampling of
EDU-related blog posts from the last few months:
LiveCode Teacher Training Day in Edinburgh
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/livecode-teacher-training-day-in-edinburgh->
LiveCode Created App is no. 1 Hottest Educational App on iTunes
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/livecode-created-app-is-no-1-hottest-educational-app-on-itunes->
How to teach programming to students today
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/how-to-teach-programming-to-students-today>
Students around Edinburgh Ready to Dive into Programming with LiveCode
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/students-around-edinburgh-ready-to-dive-into-programming-with-livecode>
Join Us at The Education Show
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/join-us-at-the-education-show>
Lovely, but:
"The event was attended by 20 experienced and enthusiastic computing
teachers"
Indeed. However, my eariler message (posted about 15 minutes ago)
addresses something different:
Not using Livecode to teach computer programming, but as a development
platform to be used by teachers do develop their own software.
LiveCode in The Times Educational Supplement
<http://www.runrev.com/company/runrev-blog/livecode-in-the-times-educational-supplement>
Thus far, the best business model RunRev has been able to come up with
which lets them keep electricity coming to their computers and food to
their developers has been the one they have now. It can probably be
improved on (all systems can), but a complete change of direction
would not be prudent without diligent, detailed research.
"a complete change in direction" . . . now I wonder where that idea came
from? certainly not from me.
My apologies. I got distracted by the reference to the free RevMedia
edition.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com
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