[sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman

[Barry Klein]

I favor the youtube approach vs alternatives.
Youtube videos are a great way to either show an obvious coolness or show 
just how blah it seems to be...
The deal is you are trying to sell the damn thing to the viewer.  It better
be unique, interesting enough for several of us to be left wanting to make 
one...
Why is the audio crappy?  Was it the hardware used or a file conversion
artifact?  Bad audio when you are trying to demonstrate...audio... well....

Barry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Bugs" <admin at bugbrand.co.uk>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 07:50
Subject: Re: [sdiy] open letter to Aaron Lanterman


>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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