idea: Contest and promoting Rev to the world (Sarah Reichelt)

[Marielle Lange]

Hi Sarah,

Interestingly, we had that discussion on the education-revolution list a month
ago. The transcript, re-organized by main issues, can be found at:
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=EducationWhatIsNeeded>
Feel free to add your two cents or more to this discussion (see below for a
brief tutorial on how to use the wiki).

Know that the education wiki welcome, facilitate and encourage contributions
like the ones you suggest.

See <http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TutorialsImageDemo>
for an example.

Any member of the community is invited to follow the example set by Mark
Greenberg.... if you would like to contribute back to the community, share your
tips but don't have the mean to create a webpage on your own... no worries,
simply use the wiki.

Wikis are not about complex html... they are about very easy to edit content,
thanks to a limited number of easy to remember conventions.

I invite you to have a try. Simply register to the wiki (1 sec.--necessary to
protect the wiki from spam), then connect to this page:

<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=TutorialsTeachers>,

click edit in the top tab, in an appropriate place, add some text like
((myTutorial|my tutorial)) -- the convention is ((wikiName|name that appears on
the page)), click on the save button (you may need to scrool down to see it),
then you should see on the page the text my tutorial? (my tutorial followed by
an interrogation point), click on the interrogation point and it creates the
page. You can start editing. There is a toolbar to help you with the editing,
or you can click on the wiki help tab (when in edit mode) to get to know the
conventions.

That's it. You can do exactly the same in the section "Revolution snippets"
<http://revolution.lexicall.org/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=RevolutionSnippetTips>

If you click on "image galleries", you will see that there is one called images
for tutorials, it includes snapshots of the toolbars and menu. Click on any
image and you will be told how to link to it from your tutorial page. Feel free
to use them. Any demo stack can easily be downloaded in the education section,
in the "learning transcript" section. Alternatively, you can send me metadata
with information about a file held on your webserver and I will simply link to
it.

Have a try. It may feel a bit strange at first, but adaptation to this new
environment and ways to edit text on it is very fast (a lot easier to manage
than html). If you need more information to help get you started, don't
hesitate to contact me (but my answer may not be as superfast as you are used
to on this list, I can only check up the revolution digests in the evening ;-)
).

Explore this wiki and you will find many resources to help you design better
stacks (how to find or create quality graphics, interface design, etc. --
material gets added almost every day). Don't hesitate to add new information.
Apart for the homepage, everything is open for editing and commenting.

Marielle


>HyperCard came with 2 really useful stacks: Readymade Fields &
>ReadyMade Buttons.
>These gave working examples of neat things that could be copied &
>pasted into your own stacks so get you doing stuff early in the
>learning process.

>I would like to see a Revolution Home stack which like RevOnline,
>could open optionally on startup. It would contain buttons linking to
>the docs, tutorials, revonline, web sites and also contain a
>selection of simple objects ready to use.

>Cheers,
>Sarah