Years ago I posted this on the Koinonia Institute wall, it dealt with DVDs vs Slide show's. I'm still pushing for a file of slides be provided for studies that don't include slide shows.
"I feel like Don Quixote's tilting at windmills, a followup to my March 31 post. I unsuccessfully brought up the suggestion with KI management that in the event that slideshows are not available it would be great if a file of CM's slides as presented on his DVD would be included with the audio. I pointed out that not only are the DVD more expensive than the slideshows, they take up far more hard drive storage.
As an example, I mentioned that a friend who bought the DVDs Learn the Bible 24 hours required about 45 gigabytes hard drive storage as compared to less than half a gigabyte storage for the slideshows that I bought.
It's been my experience that CM mentions things on his DVD/ slideshows that are not always in the PDFs. For me it is easier to find these nuances with the slides, at least I have some idea where in the hour lesson to look rather than once again listening to the full hour.
Full disclosure, I am not one for shuttling DVDs on a computer. My choice is to download the slideshows and have them at my fingertips so to speak. I have both a summer and winter home so it is easier to carry my computer around that a bunch of DVDs.
I seem to be fortunate in the nearly 40 courses that I have taken through KI all had slideshows available. Back when I took the basic Issachar courses I was able to download both MP3s and PDFs with slides. I could listen to the audios while "flipping" through the slides while offline.
I am currently taking two courses with KI, the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah and Isaiah part two. Ezra and Nehemiah does not have slideshows available. Fortunately, the Isaiah downloads do. This is been a learning experience for me and I will avoid any KI courses that do not provide slideshows in the future. Unfortunately two courses that I really want to take, Exodus and Joshua, do not have slideshows with them so...."
