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 […]
Archive for April, 2007
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 […]
ChinesePod interviewed on Danwei
Published by April 15th, 2007 in ChinesePod Media Coverage. 5 CommentsI’ve discovered that there is life beyond V3. Here’s an audio interview I did for Danwei’s China businesscast series. They asked me to talk about the ChinesePod business model.
Btw, if you don’t know Danwei, well you should. Great source of information on media-related things in China.
Ken Carroll
We have started a separate page for “known issues.” The issues listed there are not typos or individual lesson issues, but larger site issues. Take a look at it before reporting a bug. We will be updating this page frequently.
Check it out: V3 Known Issues
-John
As we go through the day you’re welcome to post your ‘discovering V3′ observations.
1. My first insight for you: The Saturday Show can be found here: http://extra.chinesepod.com/
2. A question: “Im having bit of a problem finding my lessons from previous site. If I look at the lessons in the explore section, it shows […]
With something of this scale, I guess there are bound to be bugs in the new system. It would help if you ChinesePod learners could post any bugs you find here. That’d be a systematic way to deal with them.
We’re not going away. The staff are here over the weekend, too. Let’s get […]
Today is V3 day. We’re working right now on the new servers, migrating data and so on. My hope is that we’re done within a few hours, but please don’t take this as gospel.
Logging in will be exactly as before. We have given you all new user names, but you will be able to change […]
There has been some concern over the new style of PDF transcript. Let me explain:
1) The traditional characters will be back soon. We are switching things over to V3 where the 2 versions of the PDF transcripts will be in separate files.
2) Copying and pasting from the PDFs: It was never the plan to stop […]
Stephen Krashen
Formal learning involves the type of courses we take in school or on training programs. In school, it is mostly done to us (while we sit passively). It is explicit and presented in structured, generic packages, on a pre-ordained schedule, etc.
Informal learning, by contrast, constitutes everything beyond the formal - anything we learn […]
Prompted by a discussion in the last post, I want to emphasize that newcomers are as welcome as anyone to comment here or anywhere else on ChinesePod. I still feel as if newbies don’t get as involved as they might.
With any online community, you have the issue of mixing it up. The newbies […]
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