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[Jeffery Douglas Waddell <jeff@smluc.org>]

Hi Bruce,

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Bruce G. Robertson wrote:

> 
> 
> I a recent missive about the Gutenberg texts, I bainstormed publicly about a
> kind of learning environment that might fit well some of our goals and make
> use of the resources there.
> 

Yes, thank you....

> Let me put that into focus a bit with this description. I'll call the system
> 'Lege mihi' which means 'read to me' in Latin. 
> 
> The goal is to help children and young adults become familiar with and enjoy
> literature. We will do this by supplementing texts with a
> synchronized dramatic reading and with sound and images. Let met take as an
> example Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, poem I:
> 
> I
> Bed in Summer
> 
> In winter I get up at night
> And dress by yellow candle-light.
> In summer quite the other way,
> I have to go to bed by day.
> 
> [Along with the text, featured in large letters, we see a picture of a 
> boy in bed, the sun streaming through the window. He is ill.]
> [The verse is read. This part is 'pluggable', that is Daddy can
> record his reading and store it as a data file to this application. Then
> child can listen to daddy -- lege mihi -- when he is away 
> at LinuxWorld conferences :-)]
> 
> 
> I have to go to bed and see
> The birds still hopping on the tree,
> Or hear the grown-up people's feet
> Still going past me in the street.
> 
> [Additions to the first image - maybe a png -- of a bird, and sound
> effects added of the feet.]
> 
> And does it not seem hard to you,
> When all the sky is clear and blue,
> And I should like so much to play,
> To have to go to bed by day?
> 
> [Add the child thinking of times she once played outside.]
> 
> 
> Note that the goal is to make the literature comprehensible with the images
> and effective reading. I think easter eggs, hot spots and other multimedia
> tricks would simply detract. I call this non-interactive fiction in the
> subject to this letter.  Clearly this by no means taxes our computing systems
> or adds any AI, often a goal of educational software. But a good collection of
> these might improve some children's lives, and it should be possible to lash
> together quickly as a test of the KGB, not to mention our collective creative
> talent.
> 
> Yrs,
> 
> 

I like it.

Jeff
jeff@smluc.org


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