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I also don't prefer using strings, but to be fair, HTTP methods are just strings when the request is received. There is some beauty in that in matches the prefix of the first line of an HTTP packet

This is cool! I've had similar ideas, but when it comes to creating the curriculum it was always the time consuming part. If the graph was in something like a wiki, where people could contribute, add linkages, add new lessons, etc., and a system to automatically prune the graph to each student, there could be a globally sourced and maintained "school" for all human knowledge.

I find the lack of learning science and the state of teaching how to learning to be detrimental to our current society where people are required to know more and more. Knowledge that doctors, lawyers, even computer engineers keep increasing as time goes on, but the way we learn has never been scrutinized or emphasized and is mostly up to each person to deal with.

I mostly agree, learning efficiency is not directly tied to the method, but how the brain processes it over time and may even require multiple methods to sufficiently learn something. I wouldn't be surprised if emotions or feeling frustrated while trying to learn hampers it as well.

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Sorry, about that. I initially hide everything, and use ajax/browserid to authenticate/show things depending on the status. Just altered it now to show the initial page at least, if you have js disabled.

Maybe you can try to library for sound. SoundManager 2 does html5 sound and falls back to flash. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

Apparantly there are issues with looping (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/demo/api/) but it points to (http://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/4499319436/) as a way to fix sound loops.

Regarding other technical problems: I've had that issue too with Chrome beta, using csstransforms caused my textboxes to be unclickable(but still tab-able). My solution was to downgrade to the normal Chrome version and hoped it'll be fixed by the time it hit stable.

A couple of things

- No clear 'what to do' on the first page

- Not enough validation errors. I typed in something weird and it didn't present an error. Just a refresh of the page. Maybe a blinking of a field in some cases.

- Where there were validation errors, it doesn't provide feedback on the type of input is acceptable (password)

- Last page of the project creation, 3. Create tasks, there was no clear indication that those were text input fields.