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My first course: Online Popcorn.js based Django audio-course

by fijter on 7/23/11, 11:07 PM with 10 comments

  • by rwaldron on 7/24/11, 12:10 AM

    I'm one of the authors and maintainers of Popcorn.js and this is unbelievably cool. I think you may be the first ever commercial product built with Popcorn.js - so congrats on that and for making such a worthwile product.

  • by edkennedy on 7/24/11, 12:25 AM

    Inspiring! The way you used Popcorn.js is engaging, I could see myself using this course. One thing I noticed in your sample chapter is that when I skipped around to see a previous slide, the slides would not change relative to the time. The slide always stays on the last one presented.

  • by erikig on 7/24/11, 5:48 AM

    Very slick, I was hooked and watched the whole first chapter and I didn't experience any issues to speak of.

    As successful as the Django course might be (and it looks like it will be), I think you should also consider working on an audio-course creation application (in Django ;) and charge for that too so other people can create their own courses similar to this one.

  • by ohadpr on 7/24/11, 12:38 AM

    Looks great,

    Can you share some background on how you decided to create this content, in this specific method of presentation, how did you deicde on pricing, what are your expectations, etc?

    Thanks

  • by cowboyhero on 7/24/11, 1:16 AM

    Love the idea, but the demo is hanging on me. Looks like it's choking on urls.api.twitter.com.