Many thanks Marielle, The schools have just finished for the year down under, but you can be sure that in January, I will be sending Jack off to school well armed with this & other Rev propaganda :-)
Cheers, Sarah On 12/9/05, Marielle Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Many educators on this list share this view. All kids should be > initiated to revolution. > > Me and others have proposed a hand for initiatives that may help > Revolution gain a better visibility and recognition in the education > arena. But we have been facing the same difficulties as the ones > Chipp denounced a few days ago... we haven't really been encouraged > from higher up. There isn't so much we can do when we are not in a > position to influence the management decisions. Perhaps the increase > in number of staff will bring some good news on this front too. > > In the meantime, feel free to point the teacher to the text which > targets more specifically educators at: > <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? > page=Revolution4Education> > > or to the Teacher Manual at: > <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php? > page=TutorialsTeacherManual> > > To know that there is a set of 20 lessons already available may help > to convince the teacher to use revolution. On some of the slides a > test script is shown within a frame on the left of the page and the > student can write it and test it within a frame on the right. > > Best, > Marielle > > > > Good point, Scott. I know we have a few tertiary educators on this > > list, but I would love to see Rev push into secondary schools. My > > middle son (13) is starting a programming course next year and they > > will be using Visual Basic. He has asked his teacher if he can use > > Revolution instead, since he is already familiar with it. She is > > agreeable, but I don't know if the school will be prepared to pay for > > Rev when they already own VisualBasic. _______________________________________________ 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
