Specialization is for Insects, Seth says

This is a great example of content that needs to be on the XO.  I found this .svg (scalable vector graphics) file over at wiki commons, which is a great source for educational images.  It’s where I found the images for the Dinosaur eBook actually.

The translation for this image shouldn’t be too hard either.  While IE doesn’t display .svg file in a web page (I had to reformat this to jpg) good browsers do, like firefox and the Browse activity on the XO.  If you don’t have firefox, I highly suggest you download it.  And if you download it from the link to the right > I make a couple bucks.  Firefox is free to you of course, as software *should* be.

Those of you familiar with early English language education may be familiar with the concept of a leveled reader. The basic idea is that of a book that very carefully and slowly increases vocabulary. They are very important, if dull, to create and read. There are few (if any) such resources on the XO. Most Leveled Reader resources online are proprietary and costly. What resources that do exist at places such as Free-Reading lack illustration or presentation suitable for children, although their page on Connected Text Activities is excellent.

I wasn’t aware of this lack, or even the concept of Leveled Readers three weeks ago. But then the wonderful fellow volunteer Carol Leche started me onto them while preparing materials for her daughter’s kindergarten classroom. This happened to be right after I had discovered a wonderful cache of images at WikiMedia, the storehouse for Wikipedia image, audio and video files.