John here. Some of you have asked for a list of the lessons in the system. It shouldn’t be surprising that I, as academic director, possess such a list. I’ve been pretty busy fixing all the issues with old lessons while simultaneously producing new content, but I have put together some spreadsheets for our users.
The […]
Archive for April, 2007
Here at Praxis we are of the belief that training media will inevitably be forced to adapt to the same industry dynamics that are affecting mass media. While the analogy does not hold in all cases, it does serve as a valuable source of new product development ideas.
RSS-creator, Dave Winer, and his ‘River of News’ […]
Since launching a few weeks ago we’ve had loads of feedback from users (thanks to all who have contributed) and are responding to it as fast as we can in the audio content. There have been tons of good suggestions, and we have our own improvements we want to implement too. The thing is, all […]
It’s the age of networks. I’m seeing them everywhere. Learning networks, of course, but also social networks, computer networks, local area networks, telecomms networks, the brain as network - the internet itself, etc. Below is the blogosphere.
Ken Carroll
Dave Lancashire sent me a set of questions today. Essentially, he wanted to know if I felt:
1. confusion with similar-looking Chinese characters;
2. difficulty in understanding that the same Chinese characters can have different pronunciation and meaning;
3. difficulty in understanding that the meaning of a Chinese character may depend on its […]
I think there’s a continuum that describes ChinesePod learners, an axis that stretches from the visionary at one end, to the pragmatist, at the other. No individual is 100% visionary, or 100% pragmatic. Instead, we all tend to fall somewhere along the line. (This type, of classification was first used by Geoffrey A Moore, […]
One of my favorite new features of the new site is the personal feed. Subscribing to your own custom feed of Chinese lessons is a simple 4 step process.
Step #1 - Select which levels of future lessons you would like to receive. These subscriptions are designed to replace the various level feeds in […]
A quick comment on the logic here. We got caught up in a bit of the long-term vision of the product here. The Calendar system was originally designed where named calendars would replace named folders in version 2. This would preserve all the functionality in version 2, but add the extra value of the pacing […]
Some feedback on where we are with developments courtesy of Hank. We’ve been listening and trying to respond to you - Eileen alone answered 170 emails yesterday. (Poor thing.)
1. bookmarked lessons
- hurting usability; user saves but doesn’t understand need to schedule lessons
- solution: changed Lesson List to Scheduled Lessons, adding Bookmarked Lesson to help make […]
With the launch of our second learning service, SpanishSense, we have had a number of requests from the community to be able to pick and choose between ChinesePod and SpanishSense as they see fit. To address this need, we have created a new subscription level called the ‘Praxis Pass’, which is similar to a Premium […]
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