Jeff Reynolds wrote: Jeff Reynolds-3 wrote > this is all so true. I have this issue in educational media publishers as > they all want everything on the web but i still get constant feedback from > teachers that they like to have a cdrom in their hand to base their > curriculum on rather than a web site. Why? Because websites with content, > even those subscription based ones from publishers tend to go poof fast. > Even publishers tend to start ignoring titles after just a few years. If > teachers want to base curriculums on certain content they want it there > for many years to pay off the investment and not have to be continually > changing things. High bandwidth or any bandwidth at all is also an issue > in many schools still. Hypermedia works so much better for this delivery > than browser based approaches. Unfortunately though publisher just think > this direction is dead and distributors as well so almost impossible to go > down that route anymore. But the issue of web based materials getting > quickly forgotten and breaking in new browser revs or just disappearing > still goes on.
Do you know why this happens? Because these "disappearing" supporting websites actually makes perfect "business sense"... As simply like that. :( I have not think about this previously, but from now on, will be really careful about these "disappearing" supporting websites. Thanks for pointing this. Jeff Reynolds-3 wrote > This also goes for kids producing their own media projects. Hypermedia > like livecode work so much better at letting the kids do their own thing > both in versatility and also in teaching more basic programming logic and > content layout than doing web pages. While some assignments worked well in > the classroom lab environment (I taught multimedia for a year in my old > high school to fill in) and is a useful skill, only a small subset of the > overall curriculum assignments that we adapted to doing with multimedia > approach worked well with web sites. Even traditional page layout was well > suited for some assignments as it got the kids thinking into how to > present the standard assignment content in a different manner and really > think thru the content not just spit it back. But hypermedia was the king > for really getting the kids involved in larger projects and team efforts. The perfect example of this was the Gallery of winners of Multimedia Mania: http://www.ncsu.edu/mmania/winners.html Sadly enough, Multimedia Mania does not exists anymore for lack of corporate supporters. http://www.ncsu.edu/mmania/ When I was a member of HyperSIG, I ask them: Could we actually make Multimedia Mania an International Contest? Never get an answer back... Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/The-Missing-Link-between-LiveCode-and-Teachers-tp4678364p4678383.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
