<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><B>ACORNS Overview</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.sou.edu/cs/harvey/acorn/acorns.htm">http://www.sou.edu/cs/harvey/acorn/acorns.htm</A></P><P align="center" style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 19px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></P><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The ACORNS project has the purpose of supporting language revitalization efforts of Native American tribes. The name, [AC]quisition [O]f [R]estored [N]ative [S]peech is in honor of the tribes of Northern California and Southern Oregon where the Acorn is a central part of the traditional life.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The current version allows language instructors and students to easily prepare and execute files containing language lessons. Presently, the software only supports </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.sou.edu/cs/harvey/acorn/IntroductionPictSoun.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">Picture and Sound Lessons</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. We anticipate many other kinds of lessons as the software matures. These additional lesson types will support state-of-the-art facilities such as speech recognition.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The ACORNS project is a long term effort involving both faculty and students, in cooperation with local tribes.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The author of the original program is Dan Harvey from Southern Oregon University, </SPAN></FONT><A href="mailto:harveyd@sou.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">harveyd@sou.edu</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">. We appreciate your comments and feedback.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">The software is intuitive and requires minimal technical training. Each file contains a series of lessons that link together through use of mouse clicks. The software is open source and can be freely used for non-commercial purposes. It conforms to best practice criteria for working with linguistic data, in that it supports industry standard export and import facilities.</SPAN></FONT></P><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">.:. </FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">André Cramblit: andre.p.cramblit.86@alum.dartmouth.org is the Operations Director Northern California Indian Development Council NCIDC (<A href="http://www.ncidc.org">http://www.ncidc.org</A>) is a non-profit that meets the development needs of American Indians</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Times" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Times">To subscribe to a news letter of interest to Natives send an email to: IndigenousNewsNetwork-subscribe@topica.com or go to: <A href="http://www.topica.com/lists/IndigenousNewsNetwork/subscribe/?location=listinfo">http://www.topica.com/lists/IndigenousNewsNetwork/subscribe/?location=listinfo</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>