kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (08/23/90)
!!! Newsflash !!!! Just announced on the news this morning: The Texas Education Commission is meeting later this year to consider putting all elementary science curriculum on 'video disk' instead of using textbooks. Sounds like a job for CDTV. (Can we say "How many elementary schools are in Texas?") Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882 Internet : kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu UUCP : $ {cs.utexas.edu, gatech!petro, sun!texsun}!swrinde!kent
swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) (08/24/90)
In article <27889@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes: >Just announced on the news this morning: The Texas Education Commission >is meeting later this year to consider putting all elementary science >curriculum on 'video disk' instead of using textbooks. > >Sounds like a job for CDTV. >(Can we say "How many elementary schools are in Texas?") Sorry Kent. That is video disk, not cd-rom. The CDTV doesn't do direct video like a video disk does. Not only that, but they had already picked the curriculum, media, and the machine that uses it before they made the announcement. It is a turn-key system. I think the CDTV is a great candidate for something like this, but it does not do what this system does. -- _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.COM