[Its.an.education.project] Ivan's latest blog entry on OLPC

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:13 PM, info at olpc-peru.info
<info at olpc-peru.info> wrote:
> Hello Edward,
>
> I have check most of the sites that you mention.  That is not enough.

I didn't suggest it was enough. I asked if they were usable material.

> That
> is too easy and I am asking myself if THAT is the kind of info (content)
> that we need to provide.  I keep diging, sorting and finding more things.

OK.

> Javier
> (Where? Not in a public place until I find the correct way to present this
> information: copyrights, formats, type of content).

I meant a public place to list links.

> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:02 AM, info at olpc-peru.info
>> <info at olpc-peru.info> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Content, 100 books... :  Well... those "100 books" are nothing.  They
>>> come
>>> from an old project (named "Huascaran", that in front of many people it
>>> is a
>>> total failure) these "100 books" coollection are obscure tales, writings
>>> from another obscure author (more than 30!), put me on tears when I
>>> review
>>> what this set of "books" offer.  I am building a huge collection of "on
>>> line
>>> books" to provide some source of content.
>>>
>>
>> Where?
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know about other efforts
>>> (there must be some!) and I have never heard about the results of the
>>> pilot
>>> in Arahuay (I have at hand just the news, newspapers and reports... and
>>> these are valuable personal points of view but they are not organized
>>> results...).
>>>
>>
>> How are these?
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es
>>
>> For example,
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2000
>> Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
>>
>> http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16059/16059-h/16059-h.htm
>> Modern Spanish Lyrics by Various
>>
>> They will OCR any out-of-copyright book you can get to them.
>>
>> Or these?
>> http://www.vivir-poesia.com/
>> http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
>> http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/seccion/bibinfantil/
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Let's keep working, let's keep moving.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Javier Rodriguez
>>> Lima, Peru

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