Re: Targetting teachers

2016-08-24 Thread Richmond
Moodle astounds with a ranking of 9,085. They must be doing something right. What might we learn from their successes to make LiveCode as easy a choice for educators? I think Moodle's edge is that it can be used collaboratively online. In other respects it is fairly substandard. >&g

RE: Targetting teachers

2016-08-23 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I haven't used Moodle myself so I have no opinion about it. > But it seems very popular. > > For comparison, LiveCode.com's Alexa ranking is very healthy > at 139,248, but Moodle astounds with a ranking of 9,085. > > They must be doing something right. What might we learn from > their succ

Re: Targetting teachers

2016-08-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
ranking is very healthy at 139,248, but Moodle astounds with a ranking of 9,085. They must be doing something right. What might we learn from their successes to make LiveCode as easy a choice for educators? >> In the UK, LiveCode is already part of the core curriculum for grade >>

Re: Targetting teachers

2016-08-23 Thread Richmond
Code is already part of the core curriculum for grade school Computer Science. That's for children to learn programming with: that is not targetting teachers with Livecode as authorware. I wonder exactly what you mean by "the UK" because Scotland has its own, distinct, education

Re: Targetting teachers

2016-08-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > Looking for something else I stumbled on this: > > https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED432257 ... > Now all that needs to be done is substitute 'Livecode' for > 'Hypercard', so I would really like to know: > > 1. Why that is not being pushed in a major way (articles in teaching >

Targetting teachers

2016-08-23 Thread Richmond
Looking for something else I stumbled on this: https://archive.org/details/ERIC_ED432257 "Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) is, quite simply, an instance in which instructional content activities are delivered via a computer. Many commercially-available software programs, although excellent