<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 30 January 2008 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a rel="nofollow" style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1201729241_0">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Technica<br><br>Folks,<br><br>Silly me forgot to give you the URL! <br> Here it is:<br><a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/flash/salmon_boy.swf">http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/flash/salmon_boy.swf</a><br>
<br>Sorry ...<br><br>Reinhard/Ron<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I wrote:<br><br></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1201729241_0">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Subject: Technica</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Folks,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">It
is really encouraging to see improved technology being used for
language demonstration and education purposes, especially where "rare"
and endangered languages are concerned. I hope we will be able to get a
piece of that too sometime.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I found another nice presentation, this one for Tlingit (</span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">LingĂt</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">),</span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> </i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">a Na-Dene language used in coastal southeastern Alaska and in neighboring parts of <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1201729241_1">British Columbia, Canada</span>.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">It's a native story </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Shanyaak'utlaa<u>x</u></i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> ("Salmon Boy") presented as a book with written and spoken Tlingit text and English subtitles.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">So,
you whiz-kids, what is the extension .sfw? I know the program is Flash.
I do have the Macromedia MX Program, but I haven't started
using/learning it yet. Those of you that are in the know, how difficult
and time-consuming do you think it would be to create a similar
resource? Also, is it possible to create something like this in <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1201729241_2">Microsoft</span> OwerPoint (in which I'm fairly proficient) and them convert it into a Flash version?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Why, there might even be some jazzed-up Lowlands wren versions ... Any artists ready for illustrations?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Thanks for any tips.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Regards,</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Reinhard/Ron</span><br></div>