[Edu-sig] Suggestion for python learning

[Ian Ozsvald]

Hi Kirby, thanks for the clarification.

As discussed in email, I still have no idea what happened on that day - I didn't find any bugs in our code and we'd never hide submitted videos behind a PayPal wall, that'd be unthinkable.  Whatever happened, it appeared to be transitory and couldn't be reproduced, as we discussed in May.

Just for the record - we consider it a privilege to host freely submitted screencasts.  We make them freely available (always have done, always will do), we don't add adverts to the pages nor do we profit/resell them - they're entirely free so that others can get them easily.  As Kirby says we host at a much higher resolution and screensize than YouTube.  You're also free to embed any of the free videos into your own sites.  

Everything that comes in is checked so that no rubbish gets published (we're anti-YouTube in that respect), we're very proud of the collection that has grown over the last few years.

There are over 300 Python videos (http://showmedo.com/videos/python), we're getting to the point where there is something of interest for most people.  We welcome submissions, just get in contact if you'd like a hand with tools or techniques.  

We would love to see more screencasts on using Python for education, experimentation is welcome.  One of our authors (Horst Jens) has his school-kids make videos (you see them on the webcam) with Python as a part of their lessons:
http://showmedo.com/videos/?author=71

Cheers,
Ian (co-founder of ShowMeDo)

kirby urner wrote:
> A follow-up to the posting below:
> 
> Ian Ozsvald of ShowMeDo has been good about hunting me down to correct
> this misinformation.
> 
> Apparently, that one day I couldn't access all my videos was a glitch,
> some "Club logic" getting in the way that only pertains to other
> videos.
> 
> All my videos are available for free to anyone, and at higher screen
> resolution than on YouTube or Google Video here:
> 
> http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=JkD78HdCD
> 
> The higher rez is important for showing source code, other screen
> stuff, which tends to be too fuzzy on YouTube.
> 
> I encourage others here to consider ShowMeDo as a way to distribute
> educational Python videos.
> 
> Jeff Rush already does this effectively.
> 
> Kirby
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:21 PM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wanted to thank web2py author Massimo Di Pierro for cluing me re
>> Vimeo, a higher bandwidth "tube service" that isn't putting my Python
>> for Math Teachers intros behind a PayPal firewall (what happened on
>> ShowMeDo, where I also archive. also higher rez than YouTube).
>>
>> http://www.vimeo.com/user595710/videos
>>
>> (
>> lower rez Google Video versions:
>> http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2007/01/python-for-math-teachers.html
>> )