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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (255492)	10/15/2005 5:05:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572096

"However, that's not what I found when I did my 60 hours of in class time last year." Unfortunately, that is common. So then its another urban myth? My son is considered to be a computer star at his school. But all he really does with a computer is use it to do his homework and writing on, along with being able to use the Internet to do research. We have him doing some mild programming with Alice,but he mainly does little animations where things blow up or act weird. alice.org; I never heard of Alice....what's it for? Was it developed solely for schools? Alice is very nice and you can do some sophisticated stuff with it. Educators should know how to do at least simple websites. It is a great way to let parents and students know what is going on. But good web design involves restraint, not everyone has high bandwidth links. Flash, for example, is an evil that has been foisted onto the public. And don't get me started about blinking text and low contrast backgrounds... I usually turn off the flash.....if I have the option. Most of its not very good and my computer seems to get bad indigestion from it. Having said that, I think the Japanese sites have some of the best flash. Maybe it comes from being good in anime. ted