An idea:
Maybe, for many countries and districts and schools, the fact that SW runs
under the old-fashiond, out-moded DOS means that it would be possible to
have old computers donated from firms etc.? So the slow pace of changing
to more modern computer system could be a hidden blessing?
Ingvild
skriver:
>Miky from Bolivia wrote:
>>Thank God that some people was working (playing) with electronics
>>and had the idea to help us, hearing and deaf & blind too, be able
>>to comunicate each other. I'm waiting for the Deaf school principal
>>to answer the Web report....
>
>
>SignWriting List
>July 26, 2001
>
>Hello Miky!
>Thank you for the pictures of your family. Your wife and children are
>lovely ;-)
>
>Yes. That's right. Computers have made our communication possible.
>Without the internet, and our web sites, we would not know each other!
>
>Not every school can afford to have computers for their students, so
>I can certainly understand that is a problem in Bolivia. BUT...there
>usually are some lucky people like me and you in each country, who DO
>have a personal computer. These people can act as
>diplomats...connecting schools in their country, with others around
>the world...Computers provide us with the opportunity to make the
>world a better place.
>
>So, I am planning to donate materials to your school for the Deaf in
>Bolivia. I am printing your books right now. I need your Web Report.
>While we are waiting for your principal to send us the web report, I
>would like to make a suggestion...
>
>Have you downloaded the Colombian version or the Nicaraguan version
>of SignWriter Shareware on the web? That will give you Spanish on the
>screen while you are using SignWriter.
>
>Download Shareware
>https://www.SignWriting.org/forums/software/sw44/download
>
>Shareware Instruction
>https://www.SignWriting.org/forums/software/sw44/sw44less
>
>If you can learn to type SignWriting by computer...then later, when
>another individual teacher has a computer, you can teach that teacher
>how to type. Then the teacher can type vocabulary lists in
>SignWriting and print them and then hand them out in the classes for
>the students...so it would be worth it, if you learn to type
>SignWriting. We need you to spread SW in Bolivia...we cannot do it
>without you ;-)
>
>Later, if you wish, I will be happy to create a Bolivian version of
>SignWriter, with a Bolivian Fingerspelling Keyboard, just as I have
>done for Colombia...
>--
>
>Val ;->
>
>
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>
>Valerie Sutton
>
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