What Rev Needs -- Again (was "Why is Konfabulator "Pretty?")

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 23:49:28 EST 2005


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 <mlange at lexicall.org> 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.



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