Hello, and thanks for your interest! On Feb 5, 2008 4:53 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Copied to OLPC mailing lists and Librarian Chick, cataloguer of free > textbooks. > > On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up. Jack Hidary told me about this > > program over dinner a couple weeks ago. I think it is just wonderful and I > > will be thrilled to help. Question--would you prefer to have an audio or > > text version of my book? We'll make it happen either way.
I'll agree with Ed : having both audio and text versions of a book is best of all. It is both more accessible to a disabled audience and provides a tool for literacy. > > I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of > > Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. > > Outstanding. Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to work out... SJ > > On Feb 5, 2008 5:53 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > We spoke last week when you were on Forum with Michael Krasny. I asked > > > about licensing The Art of Learning for use on the One Laptop Per > > > Child XO computer in developing countries. We would want to work out a > > > license for free distribution to poor students in developing > > > countries, without disturbing your copyright and sales in richer > > > countries. We would also want permission for people in developing > > > countries to create their own translations, in the same way the XO > > > laptop software is localized, and other content translated. See, for > > > example, > > > > > > http://dev.laptop.org/translate/ for software > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Translators for books and other content > > > > > > The educational philosophy of the Laptop project, called > > > Constructionism, emphasizes learning by doing and collaborative > > > discovery. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructionism The XO software > > > supports multiple users writing in the same document (with separate > > > cursor for each), drawing together, playing music together, playing > > > games, and so on. > > > > > > The countries where XO laptops are currently being deployed are > > > Uruguay, Peru, Haiti, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, and > > > Mongolia. Birmingham, Alabama has ordered 15,000 XOs for its public > > > schools. Languages needed in addition to English thus include Spanish, > > > French, Haitian Creole French, Kinyarwanda, Amharic, Tigrinya, Khmer, > > > Dari, Pashto, Hazaragi, and Mongolian. See http://www.ethnologue.org/ > > > if you want to know more about any of them. > > > > > > Please let me know what you think of these ideas, and how we can start > > > the process. > > -- > Edward Cherlin > End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business > http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ > "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
