LubutoLiteracy Workshop #8: Make Your Own Letter Board

By Mike Lee, Sugar Labs DC – Lubuto Library at Ngwerere, 27 February 2013

My talk at Bongohive last night

Using heat shrink tubing with the OLPC plug adapter

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

Book with Chinyanja Alphabet

Make Your Own Letter Board !

Taking photos outside to collect artwork for the project.

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

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

Load the saved sounds into the Etoys Sound Library

Custom format each letter pair in Etoys

Custom format each letter pair in Etoys

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

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.

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