Comments on: i m noob http://cogdogblog.com/2006/04/19/i-m-noob/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ben http://cogdogblog.com/2006/04/19/i-m-noob/comment-page-1/#comment-4463 Ben Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:09:43 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/04/19/i-m-noob/#comment-4463 Perhaps my eyes are a bit tired from reading the student's writing all day Alan, but after scanning the Pachyderm site, reading through the "About" page, and viewing the showcase I have a vague idea as to what Pachyderm can do, but I really have no idea exactly WHAT Pachyderm is. My guess is the NMC is gearing Pachyderm towards the post-seconary academic community. I know many elementary and secondary teachers that woud like to use a tool that allows for "Learning materials created with ...[and] optimized for Internet delivery, easily reusable, and conformant with key search, archival, and cataloging standards" that also includes "pedagogically useful templates," but if they're like me, finding the time to puruse the site and actually figure out what the heck Pachyderm is would be a major deterrant. Just thought you might want to pass it on to someone at the NMC: Pachyderm looks very interesting, but the site doesn't actually tell visitors what it is. Perhaps my eyes are a bit tired from reading the student’s writing all day Alan, but after scanning the Pachyderm site, reading through the “About” page, and viewing the showcase I have a vague idea as to what Pachyderm can do, but I really have no idea exactly WHAT Pachyderm is.

My guess is the NMC is gearing Pachyderm towards the post-seconary academic community. I know many elementary and secondary teachers that woud like to use a tool that allows for “Learning materials created with …[and] optimized for Internet delivery, easily reusable, and conformant with key search, archival, and cataloging standards” that also includes “pedagogically useful templates,” but if they’re like me, finding the time to puruse the site and actually figure out what the heck Pachyderm is would be a major deterrant. Just thought you might want to pass it on to someone at the NMC: Pachyderm looks very interesting, but the site doesn’t actually tell visitors what it is.

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