[SaoMai] Fw: JumpingLetters ready!!!!
- From: "Dang Hoai Phuc" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <saomai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:06:19 +0700
----- Original Message -----
From: Dang Hoai Phuc
To: amedeopignatelli@xxxxxxxx ; cpizzat@xxxxxxxx
Cc: thom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; saomai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:22 AM
Subject: Fw: JumpingLetters ready!!!!
Hi Everybody,
Please read on the forwarded message below. We will go on together with this
project to localize this program into Vietnamese. It's quite an interesting
application for both sighted and blind kids developped by a group of Chile
people.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ricardo Rosas
To: Victor Tsaran
Cc: Larry Campbell ; Lpiccione@xxxxxxxxxxxx ; Barbara Maurer ; Gerald
Kitzhoffer ; Jackie Brennan ; Maria Rossman ; Wenru Niu ; phuc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
; sgicevi@xxxxxxxx ; Paulina Contreras ; Rodrigo Cadiz ; Katitza Andrea
Marinkovic Chavez ; María Angélica Mena Silva ; trinidad moreno
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: JumpingLetters ready!!!!
Hi all,
regarding Victor´s question, we are preparing an updated english description of
the software. We´ll have it ready this Friday,
regards,
Ricardo
2008/7/6 Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Ricardo,
Do you have a description for this software anywhere?
Thanks,
Victor
Ricardo Rosas wrote:
Dear all
as promised, you can download JumpingLetters Beta version from our website:
http://www.cedeti.cl/jumping-letters
Please note that the executable file is inside the BIN Folder
(Jumping-letters). The executable jumping-letters-debug.exe contains debugging
symbols, useful for developers, in case an error is produced.
You must also download Festival, and decompress it directly in C:/ You
should then have the following directory structure: c:\festival-1.4.3\festival.
Please use and test it and take note on every bug or error. This is not a
ready version, is just a Beta for expert use and feedback to the developers. We
willl release JumpingLetters 1.0 only when you consider it mature enough. As
said, the name is still the old one, but version 1.0 will have the definite
name.
I would like thank Paulina (the real boss) , Rodrigo (software engineer),
Angelica (Jumpys voice), Katitza (media voices) and Trinidad (graphic designer)
who made this first english version in a record time possible.
We are looking forward to your feedback,
regards
Ricardo
2008/7/2, ricardo.rosasdiaz@xxxxxxxxx <ricardo.rosasdiaz@xxxxxxxxx>:
Excellent, Jump a letter passed away.... Long life to Jumping Letters!!!!
Depending bon our graphic designer's time schedule, I am not sure if we
can introduce this change in this first beta version, but Jumping Letters 1.0
will surely include it.
We are looking forward to have your feedback next week,
Regards,
Ricardo
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
-----Original Message-----
From: "Larry Campbell" <larry@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:38:02
To: <rrosas@xxxxx>
Cc: <Lpiccione@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx>; Barbara
Maurer<Barbara@xxxxxxx>; Gerald Kitzhoffer<Gkitzhoffer@xxxxxxx>; Jackie
Brennan<Jackie@xxxxxxx>; Maria Rossman<Mrossman@xxxxxxx>; Wenru
Niu<Wenru@xxxxxxx>; <phuc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <sgicevi@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Almost ready English version of Cantaletras Program
Ricardo: This is indeed good news. I am not sure the title "Jump a
Letter" makes a lot of sense but other than the title this news is
wonderful. Perhaps "Jumping Letters" is more in the spirit of what you
are trying to capture. Only today (I am in Dallas) I was talking to Ann
Taylor the Director of the International Braille and Technology Center
at the National Federation of the Blind (an early graduate of the
Overbrook International Program) and she is very interested in meeting
you the next time you are in the US. Also Sr. Elaine (St. Lucy's School)
is here at this meeting and only an hour ago I told her I expected to
hear from you shortly. Little did I know I would have a mail from you
today. I am sure Barbara and the teachers at Overbrook will be very
happy with this news as they have a number of interesting plans for how
the program can be used. One thing we might want to look at now that
this version is available is how to capture and share some of the work
and ways teachers will use it. I also know Phuc in Vietnam (our country
coordinator who you met in Malaysia) will also get his team working on a
Vietnamese version soon.
So we will look forward to this finished English version and I think we
should plan to include info on it in The Educator and perhaps do an
article on the program in a future issue that will focus on technology
that will be guest edited by Victor Tsaran, another of our graduates who
is the director of accessiblity at the Yahoo Corp. He and his wife will
be visiting me in Maine in August so I can talk to him about it then. I
am copying our new director Jerry Kitzhoffer on this as I have been
keeping him posted on this good development. More later.
>>> "Ricardo Rosas" <rrosas@xxxxx> 07/02/08 1:33 PM >>>
Dear all,
just for tell you that we are almost ready with the english version of
Cantaletras....the softwares name is Jump a Letter, and the main
character
is Jumpy. The good news are that we produced a ready-to-use english
version,
not a preliminary one. Of course, we need create more media for that
version, but all the "hardware" english is still created. In other
words, we
can operate directly with the media administrator to create new words,
tales
and fables, but we can also just use the existing ones!
Our software engineer is now compiling the new software, we expect to
have
the Beta version ready to download on Friday morning.
Kind regards,
Ricardo
2008/6/12 Larry Campbell <Larry@xxxxxxx>:
> Many thanks Ricardo for all you are doing there.
>
> >>> "Ricardo Rosas" <rrosas@xxxxx> 6/12/2008 12:17 AM >>>
> Hi All,
>
> Larry, thank you very much for your incredible organizational
> skills!!!
>
> I want just tell you all that after a survey in Overbrook and in
Chile,
> the
> main charachteŕs name of Cantaletras English Version is JUMPY.
>
> We have now the task to find a name of the software in english....any
> ideas?
> We dońt like the original name, because of the phonetic association
> with
> "cańt a letter", exactly the opposite of what we are proposing!
Please
> send
> us your suggestions.
>
> Katitza Marinkovic and Maria Angelica Mena, two outstanding Psychology
> students of our program, both native english speakers, have done an
> outstanding work translating all the media and JUMPÝs voice...I am
> sure
> yoúll be delighted with the program in english (Katitza and Maria
> Angelica,
> sorry for my horrible written english...I hadńt time to check it out
> whith
> you)
>
>
> We are quite confident in having an english version by the ed of June,
>
> regards,
>
> Ricardo
>
> PD - please dońt forget to send your suggestions about the softwarés
> name
>
>
>
>
> 2008/6/11 Larry Campbell <Larry@xxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I wanted to give you a quick update on the follow-up on this issue.
> > Ricardo hopes to have a preliminary English version ready in late
> June or
> > early July. As my travel schedule and workload precludes my doing a
> lot
> > you on a meeting I had today. We have put together a small core
> group that
> > will be headed by Barb Maurer with Vickie West, Jamie Dalton and Sr.
> Elaine
> > from St. Lucy's. This group will review the English language version
> when it
> > arrives and come up with a plan to make it a really good and usable
> tool for
> > all.
> >
> > They will
> > -identify what needs to be done
> > -a process for getting there and
> > -a timeline for doing it.
> >
> > They will also maintain regular contact with Ricardo and his team in
> Chile.
> >
> > Once this is in place I am sure we will want to get more people
> involved.
> > However, for now it seemed logistically easiest to put together a
> small
> > group such as this. If you have questions or suggestions please
pass
> them
> > to Barb Maurer who will lead this effort. I will stay involved but
> will take
> > a couple of steps back to allow the process to move ahead more
> smoothly and
> > without the interruptions of my travel schedule.
> >
> > For now I just wanted to let you know where we are with this and
that
> the
> > effort is "alive and well". Cheers! and have a good summer.
> >
> >
>
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