[mythtv-users] Advice please: school mythtv project

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 28 April 2010 04:48:05 pm Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> and I hear there's a new theme you might want to use.
> >
> > With all of the budget problems so many school districts are having (at
> > least here in the USA) now is the perfect time to introduce them to Open
> > Source software. Our local Linux User's Group is already starting to get
> > inquiries from several schools in Colorado.
> >
> > I hadn't thought of Myth as something they might be interested in, but
> > now that I think about it it seems like a good fit for many schools.
> 
> Being 47 and having been taught before computers, projectors, VCR's
> etc were commonplace in schools, I wonder if our kids these days are
> being fed too much movies and TV shows. My stepdaughter tells me the
> other day that they watched some buddy movie (sorry can't remember the
> title) in Health the other day. When asked what it had to do with the
> curriculum she said that it was related to their current topic of
> "friendship".
> 
> Seemed more likely to my cynical mind that the teacher needed some
> down time with the lights off.

Granted some teachers find it easier to just roll a film and leave or go to 
sleep than to actually teach.

But there is a lot of video that is truly "educational", if used properly.

I agree it sometimes gets ridiculous. I'm aware of a "college level" class on 
"Harry Potter" (at least it's offered by a college), which seems to lack much 
educational value, at least IMHO.

Tools can be used properly or improperly, and Myth is certainly a tool that 
has a lot of potential for education.