[IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading (Steve Thomas)

[Ian Thomson]

Hi Steve,

Using Speek is great. Speek chat is also great and the kids have fun.
For some inspiration on how to teach (English) see Sugata Mitra's latest
video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jYVe1RGaU

Ian

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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:32:13 -0500
> From: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
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> Hello,
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> today the FSF sysadmins went to the colo to upgrade the dom0 which
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> due to a BIOS issue, the outage was more prolonged than initially
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:09:38 -0500
> From: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> To: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, squeakland
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> I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
>
> I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
>
> I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> video's suggested by Mike Lee.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
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> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:50:42 -0800
> From: Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com>
> To: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>, IAEP SugarLabs
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> Hi Steve,
> Are you using Sugar? If so, Speak is great. Fototoon is also very good if
> you have the students collaborate on writing stories. Without computers, I
> would suggest having the students write and illustrate their own little
> stories, make up little plays to put on for one another, describe to the
> class how to do or make something, conduct pretend phone conversations,
> pretend to go shopping, etc., and one of the most enjoyable things... have
> them sing lots of fun songs in English. They can have the words written
> some where to practice reading them and can talk about what they mean. They
> can make simple instruments to play along too... a few pebbles in a soda
> can, sticks to hit together, a plastic bucket as a drum... you get the idea.
> Have fun!Caryl
>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:09:38 -0500
> From: sthomas1 at gosargon.com
> To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; squeakland at squeakland.org
> Subject: [IAEP] Suggestions needed for Learning(Teaching) reading
>
> I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
> I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
>
> I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> video's suggested by Mike Lee.
> Thanks,Stephen
>
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> From: James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>
> To: Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
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> Steve,
>
> I wrote a book on reading and Sugar which might be of some use:
>
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/e-book-enlightenment/
>
> and also:
>
> https://archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment
>
> I wish I had the resources described in this book when I was learning
> French.  Project Gutenberg has some Jules Verne books that have never been
> translated into English.  That would have been a better motivation to me
> than anything my teachers actually tried.  (Not that I'm blaming my
> teachers.  I was a terrible student).
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I will be heading to Haiti next month and the teachers are requesting
> > feedback and ideas on teaching English at the school I will be visiting.
> >
> > I am looking for good resources on methods of teaching/lessons, software
> > suggestions and non computer games and methods of learning.
> >
> > I have ordered "Proust and the Squid" and am looking at Maryanne Wolf
> > video's suggested by Mike Lee.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
> >
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Ian Thomson
e-Learning Fellow, USP
Suva Fiji
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