Looks like I'm coming late to this thread, and I'll admit I haven't
read everyone's comments yet (I've been swamped submitting papers and
with teaching duties).
We would certainly be willing to let any such effort use any and all
of our tools, or to advise bill or others in whatever way folks found
helpful.
Just in case people don't know as well, my lab has begun teaching
programming at the Washington State School for the Blind this
semester, using Sodbeans/Hop, etc, and teachers are writing to us that
things are going great. So I'm personally highly encouraged that
others want to get more blind folks involved in computer science
education.
Anyway, for what it's worth (maybe nothing), that's my two cents,
Stefik
P.S. If anyone cares, Sodbeans 2.0 is coming out in July. Linux
support, a rewrite of our text-to-speech engine that will now also be
available separately on sourceforge outside of Sodbeans for others to
use, lots of little audio hints to turn those visual features into
aural features, new changes to Hop which our studies are showing makes
it easy to understand,new Hop language features like exceptions, a new
auditory tutorial system that teaches how to use Sodbeans and
programming, and a gadzooks of bug fixes. Anyway, lots of fun stuff
happening.
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Jamal Mazrui<empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Andreas may also have some interesting perspective on this given his work in
developing teaching tools and curriculum for programmers at schools for the
blind.
Jamal
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