Paul Shapiro,
 
Congratulations on your innovative instructions.   Do some of your stories 
cover health related topics?  Sounds like a  natural.
 
best wishes
 
Len and Ceci Doak
 
 
In a message dated 3/20/2008 8:33:18 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
pshapiro at his.com writes:

hi NIFL  Tech list members,

at the takoma park maryland  library, where i work, there are many immigrant
families who desperately  want to learn english.  i've been taking some 
donated
computers to  some of these families, but a computer on its own doesn't do 
much  good.

so i've assembled some children's stories  and nonfiction reading passages
(that i wrote) that these families can  read. on my macintosh computer i 
created
some quicktime files of a robotic  voice reading these writings aloud -- with
each sentence highlighted as its  being read.  the robotic voice is fairly 
high
quality. it sounds close  to a human voice.

you can see a sample  quicktime  here

http://www.writersforliteracy.org/storyofayoungartist.mov


and download the entire archive as a zip file from the  internet archive
at  http://tinyurl.com/2wazgy     (the  entire archive is about 140 megabytes 
and
expands to about 350  megabytes.)

these quicktime files are  creative commons files that may freely be
distributed on CD-ROM, Flash  drives, etc.

i hope these  might be helpful to learners that you're assisting. we
must not forget that  we have the power to create our own learning materials 
--
and that  collectively there is a lot of creative talent within NIFL Tech  
community.

phil  shapiro, public geek
takoma park maryland library


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