On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Kevin Cole <dc.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 17:42, Caroline Meeks > <carol...@solutiongrove.com>wrote: > >> I notice there has been more traffic about books! The teachers at the GPA >> eye's light up when they heard about books and having the computer read >> them. I need to figure out how to actually do that. >> CAST is a potential source of books and also a potential way for >> volunteers to create books. Its a really nice scaffold for creating books >> that help kids learn to read. >> >> But I can't get the sample books to work! Any ideas? >> > > Odd. I didn't have any problem on my Ubuntu system. What were you trying > to use to read "Legend of Snake and Eagle"? For the most part it appeared > to be HTML with a wee bit o' flash. Although the flash added to the > experience a bit, it didn't seem critical to reading the book. (The flash > portion consisted of three critters on the bottom of each page, which, when > clicked on would each animate and then read aloud a tip about that > particular section of the story. The tip was also available in print form.) > Without them, the story still contained vocabulary links in the text, etc. > In Sugar I have not gotten this far. I can't seem to get the zip folder to finish downloading. > > -- > Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo > Washington, DC > http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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