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Post by mod-gregg on Apr 9, 2013 10:33:03 GMT -8
What is the best way to learn crevasse rescue? Diagrams help as does field experience, and instructing year after year is a good way to refresh perishable skills.
What is the role of video in teaching crevasse rescue? Here I am reminded of watching the Grog animated knot tying videos. Would it make sense to do something like this in Freedom 9; if not actual video links then photo panels that show the set-ups in more detailed, up close fashion?
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Post by nicklyle on Apr 12, 2013 5:52:24 GMT -8
An animation of the z pulley constructing itself would add clarity.
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Post by gregggagliardi on Apr 12, 2013 10:35:33 GMT -8
The animation could be one of many such demos on an app. The app could serve two important goals: save some space in the print edition by reducing the number of hand drawn illustrations and provide more detailed elaboration of technical set-ups and sequences beyond what is practical to illustrate in a book
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Post by nicklyle on Apr 17, 2013 15:48:55 GMT -8
It may be premature to remove things from the text and move them to an app; there may still be people who use the text but would not have access to the app. An app would be great to enhance the text, but it may be too soon to make the text dependent on the app.
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Post by gregggagliardi on Apr 18, 2013 12:14:57 GMT -8
As I recall, Freedom 9 is tentatively scheduled to be published in 2017. By that time most readers should at least have access to a computer, if not a smart phone, IPAD, Kindle or other device. My expectation is that any apps or other supplementary materials would accompany the book, possibly on a DVD in pocket/sleeve on inside back cover.
My guess is that the whole book, apps and all could be downloaded onto a remote device. The customer would buy the book and get the electronic materials, ebook apps and all for the price of the book. I believe that's the way it works now. One can buy the hard copy book and get the ebook too.
The largest problem that I see for apps and other supplementary materials is foreign language translation. If that problem can be overcome in print I am sure that it can also be managed with the other materials.
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Post by geneyore on Apr 30, 2013 7:47:58 GMT -8
Personally I believe that DVD's time is limited if not already pasted. The work and cost would be better invested in getting it online in some way. It reminds me of Encarta www.microsoft.com/uk/encarta/default.mspxGene
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Post by steveglenn on Nov 3, 2013 13:50:29 GMT -8
I suspect that the best way to learn is to do it. Up here in Bellingham, Basic course students read about it in the Freedom and in their Student Handbooks, hear about it in lectures, see a demo in lecture, and practice in a local park on an evening just before the glacier travel f.t. Then they spend part of the weekend pulling each other out of crevasses. This seems to work well for short-term memory.
For longer term memory, perhaps we should have a crevasse rescue diagram in Freedom, on waterproof paper, that the book owner can pull out, peel the backing off, and stick inside his or her helmet.
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