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From: Fran.O'gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Fran O'gorman)
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Subject: Re: Sign Language Introduction
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Date: 11 Apr 91 04:42:50 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

Hello Caren,
     I knew that you had Sign Friends as you had sent to me
requesting a copy and I had shipped one out to you.  The graphics
ARE quite simple.  I have CGA here but have also seen them on VGA
which IS superior but have not noticed that great a difference.
Laptops with LCD would be different though and I have not seen
that.
     My question is regarding your proposed project.  Is that
interactive video you're talking about?  My feeling was that Sign
Friends was an improvement over book format (although the art in
some books might be better than mine) because of the opportunity
to animate which a book lacks, and because of the interactive
nature of a tutorial type computer program.  It is, I found out,
not the first such program, Microtech has a program that I believe
contains 2600 words/signs for the Apple however that program has a
price tag of $600, as I understand.  Another program (similar to
mine but not animated) is Learn to Sign and that is shareware like
mine, but since it's more recent, it is considerably smaller, and
again, not animated.
    Do you intend to market it commercially or offer it as
shareware, as I have?  I applied some time ago for a grant (the
Christa McAuliffe grant) which would then make it freeware but I
am not overly confident about receiving it.  NY state is cutting
the EIT (Excellence in Teaching) money and has dipped into the
teachers retirement funds so things are not good for education
here.  The grant would've helped reimburse me for my expenses as
the registrations have not been forthcoming.
    Please tell me more about your project.  If it is as
accessible as mine, and can do it better, it could obviate the
need for me writing my program.

--Fran

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