[IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 & 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

[Kenneth Wyrick]

Marilyn,

I'm in. I'm using
PuppyStudio3.3-vanilla.iso

http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/index.php?dir=Puplets-Woof-Based/&sort=date&order=desc

and they also have an RT for real-time kernal settings

I've know about Musix for a while and really like their website interface

Another option is the http://indamixx.com portable studio computers and
software which was created by 64studio folks for Ron at Indamixx

I'm hopefull about there being another http://dynoblic.org and
http://mepis.org is what initially provided the best desktop to migrate
from using windows at all in 2004 or so

I've standardized on http://openacs.org/xowiki/debian and /ubuntu for
running the http://dotlrn.org package on my http://teknowledgy.org
instance.

I know this is a lot and I'm finally moving forward with 3 core aspects of
an enterprise learning system

the conversations toolkit

School2.0 http://etoolkit.org
which was developed by Stanford Research Institute.

Learning Management Systems of http://solutiongrove.com which has
Moodle Elgg and LAMS (MEL), http;//dotlrn.org

Entrepreneurship Simulations Curriculum GIS Framework
http://teknowledgy.org/simulations

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Customer Relations Management (CRM)
http://project-open.org and http://www.vtiger.com/

Hi there!

I am a lurker on this list - read posts once in a
while. Last semester I was teaching at an elementary school and used
Sugar on a live CD with the kids. It was a big hit and I passed out at
least a hundred Sugar CDs to students. They squealed with delight and
begged to use it in class.

A very important piece of dyslexia
legislation passed the house and senate unanimously in Texas over the
weekend. The three most important features in my mind are:

 	* All
school personnel must be trained in the recent scientific studies about
dyslexia ( Reference:
http://www.dyslexia.yale.edu/dyslexiastraighttalk.html )
 	* Teachers
must use multi-sensory methods (audio, video, etc.) to teach dyslexic
students
 	* Schools must incorporate assistive technologies that are
helpful to dyslexic students

I am currently working on writing a high
school class that accommodates dyslexia (http://marilyn.hagle.com). It
is a music technology type class and I am using Musix, a Linux OS that
focuses on music compostion and audio/video production, for my software
base. Downloads are already available of course, but I will make sure
students can inexpensively purchase live DVDs or USBs that are software
ready.

I am writing to the folks on this list, hoping that one of you
will take on a similar project for dyslexic elementary students using
Sugar. Make a Moodle site and post video & audio with lessons using
Sugar.

If one or more of you wish to do this, make sure you write to
Virginia Gonzalez (virginia.gonzalez at region10.org), the state dyslexia
consultant and tell her about it so she can get the word out.

You know
that commercial interests will see dollar signs and try to make a buck
off of this. I would do it myself, but this class I am working on will
at least take months to finish.

Thanks! And thanks for creating Sugar!


Marilyn Hagle

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