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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Educational video disks
Keywords: Education, Video
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Date: 24 Aug 90 15:51:13 GMT
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In article <27889@swrinde.nde.swri.edu> kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) writes:
>Just announced on the news this morning: The Texas Education Commission
>is meeting later this year to consider putting all elementary science
>curriculum on 'video disk' instead of using textbooks.
>
>Sounds like a job for CDTV.
>(Can we say "How many elementary schools are in Texas?")

Sorry Kent.  That is video disk, not cd-rom.  The CDTV doesn't do direct
video like a video disk does.

Not only that, but they had already picked the curriculum, media, and the
machine that uses it before they made the announcement.  It is a turn-key
system.  I think the CDTV is a great candidate for something like this,
but it does not do what this system does.
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