Dear Phil, This sounds like a great resource Phil and harkens back to the times of truly free and open source, community-building on/offline !
And your approach does not introduce some novel oligopolist ICT appropriation of "community" or the "commons" or SillyCon Valley's version of the "sharing economy" which has often become code-word for *unabated greed and labour exploitation*. Let us hope we hear more such alternative approaches like yours Phil in 2021. Kind Regards, ~david ------------------------------ *David Sadoway * PhD MRM BES(Hons) Faculty & Instructor. *Geography & The Environment. * Kwantlen Polytechnic University. https://www.kpu.ca/arts/geography/faculty/david-sadoway https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Sadoway *KPU is located on the **unceded lands & waters of the Kwantlen, Katzie, Musqueum, Tsawwassen, Semihamoo, Qayqayt, Sto:Lo and Kwikwetlen Peoples. * On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 10:59, Phil Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi refurbishers and other digital inclusion activists, > > One of my hobbies is writing nonfiction reading passages -- the kind > that show up on reading tests. My reading passages show up > on various reading tests around the country -- and also in various English > language textbooks used in other countries. I also give them > away for free on my web site at > http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > (scroll down past the children's stories to get to the nonfiction reading > passages) > > I've created some multimedia versions of these reading passages where > the text is read aloud by a computer voice -- highlighting the > sentences as the sentences are read. These might be helpful for ESL > students -- as well as native English speakers learning reading and writing > skills. > > I've collected these all together -- along with some other files -- > in a package titled Reading Passages and More. You can download for > free from the Internet Archive and freely distribute these files for any > purpose. The package is 1.3 GB in file size. You can grab it from the link > on the right side of > > https://archive.org/details/reading-passages-and-more > > Use the torrent download, when possible, to save the Internet > Archive bandwidth costs. > > I'm hoping this small project of mine can spur others to share > "digital culture" in such a way that the recipients of donated computers > can spend several hours (or days) poking thru different multimedia and > text files. > > phil > > -- > -- > Phil Shapiro, [email protected] > http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/briefbio.html > http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro > http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/stories.menu.html > > He/Him/His > > "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates > "Learning happens thru gentleness." > "We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from > real options." David Suzuki > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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