<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> 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: <ol> <li>All school personnel must be trained in the recent scientific studies about dyslexia ( Reference: http://www.dyslexia.yale.edu/dyslexiastraighttalk.html )</li> <li>Teachers must use multi-sensory methods (audio, video, etc.) to teach dyslexic students</li> <li>Schools must incorporate assistive technologies that are helpful to dyslexic students</li> </ol> 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@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 <div> </div> </body></html>