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pittendrigh · 08-25-2018, 08:58 AM

Thank you for that little python script. I'll play with that. Epub on the server (rather than inside a hand-held device) is a niche market but it is an important niche market: for creating powerful how-to-to-it tutorials of any kind.

The combination of video AND the written word, packaged together as planned, organized unit is the most powerful instructional tool there is--short of a live human being at your side anyway. Extensive embedded video doesn't work well for hand-held readers. Epub on the server is the way to go for how to build a house, how to rebuild an engine, how to learn photography, from the camera through to image processing, how to build a boat, how to organize a political campaign, etc.

Sigil and Epub on the server represents the most powerful instructional tool on the planet.

Actually the best instructional technology involves Sigil, Epub, web servers and Moodle. I spent the last 5 years of my career (before retiring) doing distance learning (developing elementary computer programming classes for Tribal Colleges). Moodle is great but it (and all other distance learning software, like Blackboard, Desire to Learn etc) are abysmally bad at creating online resource materials.

Sigil and Epub on the server (because of the text/video combination) are like a super-charger put on top of an old V8 engine.

08-25-2018, 08:58 AM	#11
pittendrigh Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 1332336 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: montana Device: none	Thank you for that little python script. I'll play with that. Epub on the server (rather than inside a hand-held device) is a niche market but it is an important niche market: for creating powerful how-to-to-it tutorials of any kind. The combination of video AND the written word, packaged together as planned, organized unit is the most powerful instructional tool there is--short of a live human being at your side anyway. Extensive embedded video doesn't work well for hand-held readers. Epub on the server is the way to go for how to build a house, how to rebuild an engine, how to learn photography, from the camera through to image processing, how to build a boat, how to organize a political campaign, etc. Sigil and Epub on the server represents the most powerful instructional tool on the planet. Actually the best instructional technology involves Sigil, Epub, web servers and Moodle. I spent the last 5 years of my career (before retiring) doing distance learning (developing elementary computer programming classes for Tribal Colleges). Moodle is great but it (and all other distance learning software, like Blackboard, Desire to Learn etc) are abysmally bad at creating online resource materials. Sigil and Epub on the server (because of the text/video combination) are like a super-charger put on top of an old V8 engine. Last edited by pittendrigh; 08-25-2018 at 09:24 AM.