On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Edward Cherlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I would like to get hold of Omar Khayyam Moore's Edison Talking<br> Typewriter program and rewrite it in a modern programming language. It<br> ran on an IBM 360 and taught three-year-olds to read and write on a<br> Selectric terminal with very little human intervention required.<br> </blockquote><div><br>My PyGTK port of Ben Sittler's Yay Bee See! could be adapted to mimic the ETT.<br><br>- After the student has pressed some keys and gets used to the feedback of seeing the letter and pictures, show a random picture and "disable" the keyboard except for the corresponding key, just like ETT.<br> - Add a sound effect for each picture / letter combo, just like the ETT.  This is something Ben and I discussed which would not be hard to do.  It's mostly a matter of collecting the media.<br>- You could add a constructivist twist by letting the student paste in a new picture and/or sound for each letter, perhaps from Record (see Walter's Typing Turtle suggestion).  The collection would be saved to the Journal.<br> <br>Feel like dusting off your Python skills?<br><br>git://<a href="http://dev.laptop.org/users/wadeb/yay-bee-see">dev.laptop.org/users/wadeb/yay-bee-see</a><br><br>-Wade <br></div></div>