Cool online example stacks?

[Devin Asay]

Sivakatirswami,

Sorry, I haven't followed your project in detail. How does the  
digital magazine work? Would I be able to launch it from a launcher  
app as a demo of sorts?

BTW, this conference is in Hawaii, in Honolulu. Are you on Oahu?

Devin

On May 11, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote:

> Devin:
>
> Shameless Self Promotion here:
>
> http://www.hinduismtoday.com/digital/
>
> You can subscribe to Hinduism Today Digital Magazine for free. The  
> concept was seeded by Dan's Smart  Books, with added features built  
> into a prototype by our team here and the "heavy lifting" coding  
> was done by Andre.
>
> But I think the concept of a Revolution front end to PDF resources  
> that live on a web server and are downloaded and stored as a  
> library on the local hard drive  is a very solid concept for the  
> edu world.
>
> of course Dan's book is also there  as a teaching tool.
>
>
> Sivakatirswami
>
>
>
> On May 10, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>
>> Dear Revolutionaries,
>>
>> Next week I, along with another member of this list, am giving a  
>> presentation/demo of web-enabled sofware produced with Revolution  
>> at the CALICO symposium. CALICO is a leading organization  
>> promoting the use of computer-based language learning  
>> applications. (Its members include many higher ed and K-12  
>> language teachers, who are precisely the kind of "inventive users"  
>> that Dan Shafer describes.) I'm going to be demoing some of my  
>> recent projects, and making available a "Learning Web" application  
>> to attendees. This is a minimal, "launcher" application that will  
>> allow them to run web-based stacks to see the possibilities of web- 
>> aware applications that are free of the encumbrances of web browsers.
>>
>> I would also like attendees to be able to examine other great  
>> stacks that some of you have created. This seems like a great way  
>> to show them the wide range of applications possible with  
>> Revolution. So, I am seeking both suggestions and permission to  
>> give URLs of your best web-based Rev stacks to these educators.  
>> The launcher app will only run the stacks over the http protocol,  
>> and will not save them to the local disk. I will only give out  
>> URLs with specific permission from the authors.
>>
>> So, Revvers, what do you want the world to see? URLs please.  
>> (Scott Rossi, I'd especially love to show them some of the  
>> beautiful work you've done.)
>>
>>
>> BTW, I'm a little new to this distributed model for running  
>> software, so if any of you have any advice or cautions for me  
>> before I present this in a public presentation I'd love to hear them.
>>
>> (And, RunRev, I think I'm staying legal here. Please advise me if  
>> you have concerns.)
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Devin Asay
>>
>>
>> Devin Asay
>> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
>> Brigham Young University
>>
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University