Judy Perry wrote: > I went back and re-read Alejandro's post and that is most definitely > NOT > the impression it gives me. I also chatted with him for a good half > hour > or more yesterday and nothing in that conversation suggested that these > teachers already know how to program using another > language/environment. > > For example, he repeatedly makes the point that they are expecting Rev > to > look like and have similar capabilities to a typical Office suite of > programs (which is about all teacher ed candidates tend to be taught). > He > says they look at the volume of documentation and are horrified, > whereas > probably most of us who already use Rev to varying degrees wish there > was > even more (for example, it was recently suggested to me to use the > selectedLine for a tabbed button... I checked the docs and they only > suggest that selectedLine works for fields, not buttons, but it did, > indeed work). > > Can you point me to what I missed (re Alejandro)?
Hi Judy, If you spoke with him for 30-minutes yesterday, then you probably have not missed anything and I am the one who misunderstood his post. ;-) In my defense, when I read (brackets added for emphasis by me): ----- Hi all, Previously, i have wrote about [my fellow teachers] that i have [invited to use RevMedia] in their classes. If you read those comments, you had learn that they expect to receive training from the source, from Runrev, not unlike Microsoft and Adobe offers with their [certification programs]. The idea of learning on their own, do not attract too many of them. I know that this is the result of previous experiences in [trainings for other softwares]... ----- I read it to mean he wanted to teach his fellow teachers (not kids) how to program in rev and I took his "previous experiences in trainings for other softwares" to mean other software languages and not how to "use" office programs. And, in Alejandro's defense, I fully understand he is not writing in his native language. None the less, and in light of what is now my obvious misunderstanding aside, it did cause me to think of when I first started with Rev and as I said in my post: "... But you raise an interesting point... assuming there are programmers who know how to program in other more traditional programming languages... you need to focus on the lay of the land first... this applies to not just your fellow teachers, but all those we expect to embrace revlets and revTalk..." I stand by this, even if it wasn't what Alejandro was asking. And in writing my "misguided" response, it made me realize that this is probably the single most barrier to mass adoption of revlets by programmers of other languages. However, it is certainly not an insurmountable barrier, and in fact, a very addressable one. As to teaching kids, you'll have to speak to my wife who is a "certified" K through 12 and special needs school teacher. ;-) She was previously, for 18 years, a Systems Engineer with IBM in charge of Education Systems and installing computers in the classroom here. Aloha from Hawaii, Jim Bufalini _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
