[Note: This series should have been titled one through eight sessions of a single workshop.] Slides from the eighth workshop with the children and staff at Lubuto Library at Ngwerere in Lusaka, Zambia. In this last general session, the participants constructed a full letter board in Etoys with spoken letter sounds recorded in Audacity. The eight days of workshops I am delivering are funded by a USAID/WorldVision grant from the All Children Reading Challenge. Representatives from the Zambian Ministry of Education participated in all the sessions. Photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/sets/72157632781888368/with/8484657613/ Lubuto etoys ngwerere_27_feb_2013.ppt

1. LubutoLiteracy
Workshop #8: Make Your Own Letter Board
By Mike Lee, Sugar Labs DC – Lubuto Library at Ngwerere, 27 February 2013

2. My talk at Bongohive last night

3. Using heat shrink tubing with the OLPC plug adapter

4. Making up USB drives with all 2.5gb of my Etoys /
OLPC resources

5. Book with Chinyanja Alphabet

8. Make Your Own Letter Board !

9. Taking photos outside to collect artwork for
the project.

10. Setting up the work space in Etoys and
importing the photos.

11. Record letter sounds in Audacity; Cut and
save each letter sound as an AIF sound file

12. Load the saved sounds into the Etoys Sound
Library

13. Custom format each letter pair in Etoys

14. Custom format each letter pair in Etoys

15. In the Viewer for the letter pair, assign the
matching sound from the Sound Library

16. Production Tips
Be sure to name your sound files simply and consistently.
Save your Audacity project file first. Then use the Export command to
save as AIF for import into Etoys.
Best to save your Audacity sound files to a USB drive so that the files
can be reused in other projects.
If your sound recording is faint, use the Amplify filter in Audacity to
make it louder.
Remember that sounds recorded in Etoys can NOT be exported from
the program!
Remember that sound can be attached to any object in Etoys in
addition to text—sketches, shapes, imported photos.

17. Follow-up Scripting Sessions with core LubutoLiteracy
team Sunday 3/3, Monday 3/4