some meeting notes of today
Randolph Wang
Despite the fact that our recipient schools use different textbooks, I
think it's important for our videos to reasonably follow the concrete
materials in one or more textbooks. There are several
considerations...
(a) I think it's a bad idea to make our videos resemble ZERO textbook.
Making our videos based on ONE textbook is much better than making
them base on ZERO textbook.
(b) We can shoot more videos for other books later. But we have to
start somewhere.
(c) If our video resemble NO particular textbook, it's likely we might
end up with ZERO takers as opposed to SOME takers. It's ok to have
SOME takers to begin with. We don't have to make supposedly
one-size-fits-all videos that are guaranteed to make everyone happy.
In other words, in an effort of making everyone happy, you might make
NO one happy.
(2) Let's make a shooting schedule and plan.
It's ok for Amardeep to shoot only twice a month. But we should have
more teachers. We should have a regular schedule going on auto-pilot.
Deviating from the plan should be exceptional occurrences.
(3) Let's ask teachers to make little tests.
Show them the example tests I showed you. Only the English lessons
should have tests in English. The other tests should be in Nepali.
For now, let's just collect the papers. Kush can scan or photograph
the papers and put them in the database. We can prettify them later.
(4) For Kush,
(a) Buy two new disks. One is an internal disk. Make the other a USB
disk. (You might want to reformat your existing USB disk as NTFS.)
(b) Fix Skype somehow. One option is to get a USB modem. Make sure
you get the "EVDO" version. Not the "CDMA 1x" version. EVDO is much
faster. The prices of both the device and the data plan are decent.
My modem is Rs3100. Data plan is Rs1000 for 400MB. (I don't know how
much data Skype consumes but it should be ok price-wise.) The USB
modem can at least act as a backup so we use it only if the wire
doesn't work.
(c) Once you fix Skype, let's try to schedule some regular conference calls.