> You'd probably appreciate the recent cite on PlanetPyhton: > "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" iPod edition ;) > http://pythonzweb.blogspot.com/2005/11/structure-and-interpretation- > of.html >
Yes thank you. I've not ready for vPod but can handle Divx. I'm downloading the first lecture now, to see what it's like. Speaking of video lectures, here's a great stash of some of Feynman's: http://www.vega.org.uk/series/lectures/feynman/index.php > But my problem with media like movies is that they are designed as linear. > A good technical books is designed more for random access. Easy to read > those three pages again, jump forward a chapter, then back 3. True, its > easy enough to mimic that in current forms of media, and the tech-savvy > might get all excited about the achievement of doing just that, never > feeling fully obligated to explain the advantage of their advancement over > what it is mimicking - a book. > > Art I appreciate your desire for non-linearity and have plans to support it. My model is [heavily influenced by] 'Sesame Street': a growing database of videoclip shorts, retrievable by key topic (letters A-Z, numbers 1-13 or thereabouts, other key concepts). Every show adds some new content, but a lot of it is recycled, but in new orderings (edit/recombine ops).[1] In my Classroom of Tomorrow, the teacher has random access to a gazillion video shorts in the archive, and during Q&A might pull up just the right ones to sustain the dialog. It's not a matter of the teacher losing control to "A/V" (e.g. half- to full-hour documentaries). I just screen a quick animation of a fetch instruction: bits on the address bus trigger RAM to dump some content onto the bus, which get loaded into a register on the CPU (25 seconds play time). Kirby [1] http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/vidconcept.html _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
