[Educators] Open Source Literacy Software?

Linda Eberle eberlelinda at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 19:43:28 EST 2009


I have a great site for children and English!
Www.starfall.com
Will ask around about adult sites as I work with second language  
learners.
Linda Eberle

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On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:37 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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