[sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

[Tom Bugs]

I get what everyone is saying but I also think that Aaron's YouTubes are 
a great, quick, interesting snippet of what is going on in the classes 
-- I don't think they're aiming to give all that much info -- are they?
See, they're quick to do - that is a positive (in some ways) - they can 
be uploaded without much hassle whereas getting a properly documented 
project page up would obviously take a great deal more time. Maybe more 
details WILL be forthcoming later anyway - Aaron's previous class docs 
have been uploaded before but I guess that the classes are currently not 
at this stage.
Anyways, blah blah for now!
Tom

On 07/05/2010 15:24, Scott K Warren wrote:
> I think video is a very poor medium for most technical communication, 
> certainly no substitute for a well written document. It's no excuse 
> that "young people" prefer watching video to reading. No offense, 
> Aaron, but I think educators should be working hard to reverse that 
> trend, not catering to it.
>
> That said -- thanks, Aaron, for your great job of building a synth 
> engineering curriculum, teaching all those students so much, and 
> sharing their work with us.
>
> Hoping for the reports,
>
> skw
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On May 7, 2010, at 8:41 AM, "Paul Perry" <pfperry at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Another vote against youtube, as a repository.
>> I used to get quite a bit from the articles
>> published by national Semiconductor & other
>> tech firms - but now they have switched to "web
>> seminars" - video presentations - that are a great waste of time 
>> IMHO. I guess they are trying to force us to watch the 'advert' 
>> parts, but I just skip.
>> It's a shame.
>>
>> By all means have youtube presentations of people
>> having FUN with electronic soundmakers, though!
>>
>> paul perry, old fogey in Melb Australia
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