[Educators] Open Source Literacy Software?

[Edward Cherlin]

Did you ever hear anything useful about literacy software? Some Sugar
developers have been working off and on to create a multilingual
text-to-speech program that also marks where in the text it is
reading. It is based on the concepts of Same-Language-Subtitling of
Bollywood movies, the most effective literacy program in India. I see
that the idea has been picked up again in a Google Summer of Code
project.

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Mike Dawson
<mikeofmanchester at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Educators,
>
> We are preparing to get ready for the first school in Afghanistan to
> receive XO laptops here in Jalalabad.  Literacy here is a relatively
> high 60% as far as I can find out - nationwide it's more like 70-80%
> illiteracy.
>
> We were hoping that when the kids go to sleep at home that we can find
> something to help adults learn literacy as well as other skills, but
> without the literacy the others of course shall be far more
> difficult...
>
> I have seen:
>
> free-reading.net - web based research based literacy activities -
> seems to have no internationalization and is exclusively for K-3
> children
> litnow.org - seems to have exactly the right objective, but I can't
> find any hint of any actual software... I have sent in the contact
> form and will see what (if anything) comes back.
>
> There is quite a lot of literacy related traditional (paper) based
> materials around here - so getting the ingredients should not be
> difficult.  If anyone knows of anything that might meet this or anyone
> interested in working together to start something like that please let
> us know...
>
> Thanks/Regards,
>
> -Mike
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