So sad that Quebec takes more tax dollars per capita than any other Province now they have to take what sounds like super-fun battle in TO subway game levels from us.
Damn you Quebec. Damn you straight to the very small trough the rest of us have to feed from.
Great idea. Get 100000 bucks and it can be a reality. Development of educational content takes huge dollars. Making the cd interactive just adds a huge chunk on top of that.
You're right about the content. As always the most crucial part is overlooked. I work in educational television. We do a ton of stuff for the web and for broadcast. Even our cheap stuff is not cheap.
I spend a large chunk of my time protecting myself and the viewing population from teachers who believe that content is easy and inexpensive to produce. I challenge anyone to sit through even 45 minutes of a teacher produced lecture and learn anything. It just doesn't work. A cheap one off half hour program will cost 10000 cdn. And that is dirt cheap. A reasonably lit teacher at a desk with good audio will cost close to 2000 cdn by the time your are done and it is boring.
I'm not just a tv snob talking here. This is real experience with real teachers and real classes. Producing something that you can use in the classroom takes creative tv ppl, flexible, open minded teachers, and much money.
I just don't think having teachers spend a bunch of time recording and compressing themselves is very revolutionary or cost effective.
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So sad that Quebec takes more tax dollars per capita than any other Province now they have to take what sounds like super-fun battle in TO subway game levels from us. Damn you Quebec. Damn you straight to the very small trough the rest of us have to feed from.
Great idea. Get 100000 bucks and it can be a reality. Development of educational content takes huge dollars. Making the cd interactive just adds a huge chunk on top of that.
You're right about the content. As always the most crucial part is overlooked. I work in educational television. We do a ton of stuff for the web and for broadcast. Even our cheap stuff is not cheap. I spend a large chunk of my time protecting myself and the viewing population from teachers who believe that content is easy and inexpensive to produce. I challenge anyone to sit through even 45 minutes of a teacher produced lecture and learn anything. It just doesn't work. A cheap one off half hour program will cost 10000 cdn. And that is dirt cheap. A reasonably lit teacher at a desk with good audio will cost close to 2000 cdn by the time your are done and it is boring. I'm not just a tv snob talking here. This is real experience with real teachers and real classes. Producing something that you can use in the classroom takes creative tv ppl, flexible, open minded teachers, and much money. I just don't think having teachers spend a bunch of time recording and compressing themselves is very revolutionary or cost effective.