Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAKKjcX22542; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:45:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:45:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <130C70DD-FCC8-11D6-A281-0030656A26C8@worlded.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jeff Carter <jcarter@worlded.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2667] kids e-book resource for multiple languages X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1649 Lines: 43 Just read today about an interesting project you may want to investigate further, especially if you work in a family literacy setting: the International Children's Digital Library <http://www.icdlbooks.org> This is a 5-year research project that's developing a library of electronic books that "address the needs of children as readers." From their site: "Interdisciplinary researchers from computer science, library studies, education, art, and psychology are working together with children to design this new library. With participants from around the world, the ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature. Currently, the collection includes materials donated from 27 cultures in 15 languages." It's that last sentence that leads me to believe that this could be a useful resource. The ICDL is a joint project of the Human/Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland and the wonderful (in my opinion) Internet Archive. <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/> <http://www.archive.org/> To access the library, however, the system requirements are rather steep. You need at least a 700mhz Pentium III, (or a Mac running OS X) and at least 256mb of memory. (If this resource seems valuable to you, but you or your students or your program have older machines, I suggest e-mailing the developers and asking them if they could make this site accessible to users with slightly older systems.) Jeff Jeff Carter World Education Boston, MA (617) 482-9485 -------------- e-mail: jcarter@worlded.org <http://literacytech.worlded.org> <http://www.worlded.org>
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