--- Gregory Lypny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, most of what I see from > academics who mess around with > technology in teaching, amounts to simplistic > web-based animations.
perhaps because they don't see computers as more than a gimmicky folder file? when i suggested to a biologist that her plant growth website could do even more with animation showing incremental progress, the reaction was a defensive "oh yes, and i could add some waving arms!" no, she was not a programmer. a math prof felt that animating the progress of a mathematical function was a cop-out, not real thought. a class in neural networking i once took had step-wise representation of a function's progress in a Variable Watcher and in a graph. i never would have gotten the idea from the prose. many "get" the concept of a sine wave only after seeing a visual representation. maybe the profs should talk to the game writers? Erik Hansen ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
