[Educators] Open Source Literacy Software?

[DIANNA WOODS]

Great!!

> From: eberlelinda at gmail.com
> To: educators at lists.laptop.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:43:28 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Educators] Open Source Literacy Software?
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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