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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Natalie,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You’ll see below that Ross Webb, who ran the Vanuatu workshop, doesn’t have much to offer in the way of workshop documentation. There is a WeSay discussion group at </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/wesay/topics">http://groups.google.com/group/wesay/topics</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>. At first glance it seems to be mostly about the software itself rather than how to use it in a workshop. It might be worth browsing further, and you could join it and ask if anybody in the group has any suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Director (Vanuatu) [mailto:director_vanuatu@sil.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 16 November 2010 22:04<br><b>To:</b> 'Dave Pearson'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [ILAT] WeSay: software that helps people to build a dictionary<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Dear Dave,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>No, I'm sorry I don't have any prepared course material for running a WeSay workshop. My approach was very low key. Every participant had a computer with WeSay pre-installed, including sample clipart for use in their to-be-started dictionary. I used a data projector to demonstrate the use of the program and merely followed the good documentation that came with WeSay.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>The idea of online/digital dictionaries has crossed my mind so I would love to hear other ideas on that. I have in mind a collaborative effort for building a dictionary online by members of a particular language community that has access. How it would be moderated, and whether in the end it would be useful because of all the variant spelling, duplicated contribution etc, I'm not sure, but I'd sure love to listen in on other's conversations in that regard. That is about as far as my own thinking has come!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Sorry I don't have more to offer,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Ross</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Dave Pearson [mailto:dave_pearson@sil.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 16 November 2010 4:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ross Webb<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: [ILAT] WeSay: software that helps people to build a dictionary</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Ross,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Do you have any documentation that might help Natalie run a dictionary workshop?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Indigenous Languages and Technology [mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>FMLRP<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 November 2010 15:32<br><b>To:</b> ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ILAT] WeSay: software that helps people to build a dictionary<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Dave,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are there any workshop notes or links available? We at Fort Mojave are exploring the possibility of online or digital dictionaries for our community. It would be great to have some of the information that was covered there. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Natalie Diaz<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On Nov 14, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Dave Pearson <<a href="mailto:dave_pearson@SIL.ORG">dave_pearson@SIL.ORG</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNoSpacing>The University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu and SIL celebrated UNESCO's International Literacy Day in September with a <a href="http://www.sil.org/sil/news/2010/intl-literacy-day-celebrations.htm">dictionary making workshop</a>. Seventeen participants learned how to use <a href="http://www.wesay.org/wiki/Main_Page">WeSay</a>: software that helps people with no linguistic training to build a dictionary in their own language.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>Dave Pearson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing>SIL International<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>