<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 7:27 PM, gnome <<a href="mailto:gnome@greenglim.com">gnome@greenglim.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm delighted to hear there will be a support forum! Could we have a<br>forum version of this list too? Pleeease?</blockquote><div><br>Community-support will be the first mailing list that makes use of the forum-syncing scripts. If other sub-groups (Open, Games, Localization, Grassroots, Library, Peripherals, etc) are all perfect candidates to join the forum fray.
<br><br>Any group interested in joining the forum need just ask. I'll be happy to work with them and danny clark to make it happen. The more the merrier!<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mailing lists require way<br>too much wetware processing power to keep track of the threads ;-) and<br>they're a terrible way of storing any info one might want to keep track<br>of.</blockquote><div><br>Our thoughts exactly.
<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Re the person who said parents reading to their children was<br>pedagogically preferable. (Brave soul, btw, saying that kind of thing
<br>in this place.) Aside from the practical issues raised by others, I<br>vividly remember that I didn't think so when I was a child. I was of<br>the "Mother, please. I'd rather do it myself" persuasion. And because
<br>I could, I felt quite special.</blockquote><div><br>I've always noticed that hearing, or back-and-forth discussion, is my most effective best way to grok. Likely because of that, I quite enjoyed being read to as a child.
<br><br>Reading to a child has been shown to be A Good Thing (TM), but surely not if it is at the expense of children reading themselves. As an aside, if you've ever listened to the Harry Potter audiobooks: They have a Note To Parents that listening to audiobooks is good (but less effective!) than if the parents actually read to the child directly. In kind, a parent reading to a child is good (but less effective) than than child being able to read themselves.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The feeling of being special is pedagogically priceless, and I would think the Green Machine will have that effect in heaps.
</blockquote><div><br>+1<br> </div></div>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab