From @YaleVM.YCC.YALE.EDU:LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET Tue Oct 19 02:54:07 1993 Received: from ELI.CS.YALE.EDU by NEBULA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:56:25 -0400 Received: from YALEVM.YCC.YALE.EDU by eli.CS.YALE.EDU via SMTP; Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:56:21 -0400 Message-Id: <199310191056.AA01174@eli.CS.YALE.EDU> Received: from CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU by YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5897; Tue, 19 Oct 93 06:54:23 EDT Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 9643; Tue, 19 Oct 93 06:57:18 EDT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 06:54:07 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: Some questions about the text X-To: querist@BIX.COM X-Cc: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Erik Rauch Status: RO X-Status: The minilesson was intended to be the beginning of a postal mini-course, but a) Athelstan got hurt so the answer key was never written, nor any followup lessons, nor was it revised to refect the 2 dozen people's comments who have taken the lesson and sent answers (I will be revising it and using these responses when the dictionary is done) and b) there has been no one with skill in the language who has time to manage such a course - we tend to co-op people who learn something to work on thw multiptude of backlogged projects in the language. I think we in effect have made a decision not to put a lot of emphasis on recruiting or building up our newcomers till books are published, since a hoigh percentage of people seem to stop at the minilesson level because we don't have them. For example, glyn, although we get a new person on Lojban list every couple of days, and I send most of them the minilesson via email, i have gotten very few (maybe 2 dozen) responses, and almost no orders - you are the only new person that has ordered the draft textbook in the last 6 months, for example. I'd LIKE to see someone get more into the teaching of the language, but we need to learn better how to do that teaching. Athelstan had the best ideas, and his minilessons at conventions were great (though even with them, followup seemed to be poor). But his style of teaching translated poorly into paper/email form. lojbab