Talk:The Voyage of the Mimi

I'd second the merge; the Mimi was the vessel for the educational program -- and it's a stub as is. Merge seconded.

Apple II game

I a believe there was an Apple II game that was part of the educational package. Might be an interesting addition. Googling did turn up a few things. 66.191.19.217 21:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Indeed there was a game based upon said show on the Apple II platform. I don't know about other systems. It is probably worth mentioning, though I don't know where.--Surv1v4l1st ^{▌Talk|Contribs▌} 22:06, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Circling back to this, I think a reference would be good. I doubt the game itself would warrant an article though.[1]--Surv1v4l1st ^{╠Talk║Contribs╣} 04:35, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Criticism paragraph

Concerning the following paragraph:

"The Voyage of the Mimi series received harsh criticism from Neil Postman in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman's book spoke of the negative effects of America's television culture both in society and education practice."

Having never read the book myself, I have to ask, is there anything significant about the book's criticism of VOTM? From what I understand, the book criticizes all forms of television. Is there anything specific or exceptional about VOTM that the book chose to comment on?

If there is, the paragraph should be expanded on. If not, I think it should be taken out. Jphillst (talk) 13:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the book criticizes television in all roles excepting pure entertainment.

Regarding VOTM, page 152 in "Amusing Ourselves to Death" says:

"How critical is it that the 'academic themes' of navigational and map-reading skills be learned? Navigational skills have never :been considered an 'academic theme' and in fact seem singularly inappropriate to most students in big cities. Why has it been decided :that 'whales and their environment' is a subject of such compelling interest that an entire year's work should be given to it?

"I would suggest that 'The Voyage of the Mimi' was conceived by someone's asking the question, What is television good for?, not, What is education good for? Television is good for dramatizations, shipwrecks, seafaring adventurers, crusty old sea captains, and physicists being interviewed by actor-celebrities. And that, of course, is exactly what we have got in 'The Voyage of the Mimi.'

"...And, in the end, what will the students have learned? They will, to be sure, have learned something about whales, perhaps about navigation and map-reading, most of which they could have learned just as well by other means. Mainly, they will have learned that learning is a form of entertainment or, more precisely, that anything worth learning can take the form of entertainment, and ought to." Rotanagol (talk) 19:30, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism.

Someone keeps vandalizing this article with fake information about Captain Granville being murdered in a confrontation with whale hunters in the final episode. This never happened. I don't know if this constitutes original research, but here is a link to the entire final episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoZnvG-qDNs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.4.207 (talk) 00:18, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Plagiarism

I'm not sure if wikipedia even cares about this sort of thing, but in trying to research the series, I noticed the website http://kidstalkradio.wordpress.com/ copied this article in its entirety without sourcing it in any way whatsoever. The instance in question: http://kidstalkradio.wordpress.com/about/#comment-34 I think this sets a poor precedent for a children's educational group to advocate wholesale copying of articles for content. :S 76.89.33.204 (talk) 10:16, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

agreed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.46.219.1 (talk) 17:14, 19 December 2017 (UTC)