Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-03-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 27/02/2016 21:31, Tore Nilsen wrote: One thing I really would hope LiveCode will do, is to find room for this as a part of the program for the conference in Edinburgh in August. I have already registered and will attend. If there is anything I can do to help facilitate this, I am more than ha

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/29/2016 9:45 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On Feb 28, 2016, at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/28/2016 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: The old RevOnline/User Samples was an attempt at this, but most people these days are used to using a browser to download files and resources. That has

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Feb 28, 2016, at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/28/2016 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: >> The old RevOnline/User Samples was an attempt at this, but most >> people these days are used to using a browser to download files and >> resources. That has the added advantage of showing up in G

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/2016 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: The old RevOnline/User Samples was an attempt at this, but most people these days are used to using a browser to download files and resources. That has the added advantage of showing up in Google searches. Edinburgh really should set up a webpage on t

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-28 Thread Peter M. Brigham
LC has long been plagued with a multiplicity of source sites for LC stacks/applications/resources. There needs to be a central repository for all these. The old RevOnline/User Samples was an attempt at this, but most people these days are used to using a browser to download files and resources.

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-28 Thread Robert Mann
Hi all, I wrote a "summary" contribution in the orginal thread I laucched the debate on, to explain more clearly the psychological side that motivates the HOBBYIST Bear... some clever guys here seem to not incorportate that kind of elements in their thinking/writing. *We are humans, still!* And

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
They've put out a call for conference speakers. Maybe you could address it there, or set up a panel with other educators who attend. On February 27, 2016 3:33:05 PM Tore Nilsen wrote: One thing I really would hope LiveCode will do, is to find room for this as a part of the program for the co

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tore Nilsen wrote: > I do agree that this is a kind of task where we, as educators and > users of LiveCode should do the actual work. However, I think it is > vitally important that the outcome of such a process has an active > backing from the company... Oh indeed it does. One of the projects

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread Tore Nilsen
> 27. feb. 2016 kl. 21.51 skrev Richard Gaskin : > > What could happen if we change "LiveCode" there to "we”? > > The company has many deep technical obligations to complete, and education is > an area that really needs the insights of education specialists to guide it. > > And since we're tal