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'''[[Image:Colingo_logo.png]] | '''Free language learning for all''' |
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==What is Colingo?== |
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Colingo builds tools to help people share languages. |
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Colingo aims to make it free and easy for everyone to learn [[languages]]. To make this happen, Colingo is creating a free web portal, software packages, and [[content]]. Colingo aims to promote language exchanges using digital video, games, and videoconferencing. |
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Founded upon the pillars of free software, Colingo is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and maintaining a platform for web-based global language exchange. Colingo takes an innovative and multifaceted approach to providing the tools for people around the world to collaborate and overcome linguistic barriers. |
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Currently, Colingo is working on three synergistic projects: Colingo.org, ColingoXO and LibColingo. All aspects of these projects revolve around a vast and growing user-generated public domain library of video clips. Each short clip consists of someone saying a phrase in their native language/dialect as well as metadata about that clip for categorization and searchability. |
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Colingo is an OLPC [[developer]] and is actively developing material for the October release of the XO, most notably [[ColingoXO]], a video library, and the English-learning movie series ''1-2-3 ingles''. |
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==Colingo.Org== |
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Colingo.org, our web-based community portal, allows users to tap into and add to this library and serves as a brokerage for linguistic and cultural exchange. Members build curricula of and around the videos to share with the rest of the community while simultaneously interacting with others around the world. These community-based interactions turn each member into both teacher and pupil, building a more equitable pedagogy on a global scale. |
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==ColingoXO== |
==ColingoXO== |
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{{main|ColingoXO}} |
{{main|ColingoXO}} |
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[[ColingoXO]], Colingo's software package for the One Laptop Per Child project, takes an innovative approach to language learning and harnesses the power of the laptop's (the XO) cutting edge technology. ColingoXO takes advantage of the built-in video camera, microphone, and networking capabilities of the XO to create a new paradigm of linguistic education. ColingoXO allows students around the world to add to the public library of videos and collaboratively construct narratives out of the video clips. ColingoXO allows students to splice together voices from all over the world while putting them in the driver's seat to foment global cultural exchange. |
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[[ColingoXO]] is a package for collaborative language exchange customized for the [[XO]]. It will allow children to learn languages by constructing video dialoges out of short video clips. Akin to magnetic poetry for refrigerators, ColingoXO will permit the remixing of short video phrases. |
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ColingoXO is currently under active development; a stable release is due to be released in October. [[Python]] developers interested in working on this project are encouraged to write to the [http://www.colingo.org/abc/node/69 Colingo discussion list]. |
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== 1-2-3 movies == |
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A second Colingo initiative is producing free 1-2-3 language-learning movies. The initial focus of the movies is to highlight native speakers saying |
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The first beta release of these movies can be watched in a Flash-enabled web browser at colingo.org (Watch [http://www.colingo.org/ Movies]) |
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On August 22, 2007 Colingo released 1-2-3 ingles #1, a content bundle for the XO laptop. |
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On October 15, 2007 Colingo released 1-2-3 Spanish, 1-2-3 Portuguese, and 1-2-3 Spanish for kids. The movies are currently available as streaming flash or as raw [http://dev.colingo.org/media/123 theora]. XO users should watch the theora versions, as Gnash will not yet play our videos. |
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==Philosophy== |
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==LibColingo== |
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Colingo is committed to linguistic equality and does not hold one language, culture, or individual superior to others, Colingo does, however, find some software and licensing superior to others. Content is released under an attribution [[Creative Commons]] license. |
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LibColingo serves is a record of human activity. It is the library of user-generated video clips from around the world. While providing the basis for Colingo.org and ColingoXO, LibColingo simultaneously archives and preserves languages and dialects. As cultures, languages and dialects traverse their life cycle, LibColingo serves as a global video/audio repository for global posterity. With historical and anthropological preservation in mind, LibColingo serves as a way for communities and cultures to document themselves; providing a grassroots basis for ourselves and our children to better understand the human race as a whole. |
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Colingo is based on open source software to the fullest extent possible; similarly, we submit most of our language-learning resources into the public domain, freeing anyone to legally share and remix them. |
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==Beyond the Internet== |
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Ultimately, Colingo operates under a premise that better language exchange resources are necessary to facilitate understanding, tolerance, and peace in the new globalized world. |
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The aforementioned projects are by no means limited to users sitting in front of a computer. Instead, Colingo advocates for discovering innovative ways to bring these tools out of the virtual world. Organizations and businesses working globally and/or locally are encouraged to harness the power of Colingo and bring it to the communities they serve. |
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== Submitting videos == |
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==Open and Free== |
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Technical instructions on how to submit videos to Colingo for Debain [[Linux]] systems) (This section being actively edited 8.15.07) |
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<li> Record videos onto a DV camera |
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<li> Use dvgrab to automatically capture all the video on the tape, and break it up into separate files using the timestamp (a timestamp is created whenever you hit the record button): <pre>sudo nice -n-20 dvgrab --autosplit --timestamp --format dv2 filename_prefix-</pre> |
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<li> Rename all clips as <pre>language (en, es, zh ISO code)]_[level (1-10)][lesson (a-z)]_[phrase].dv </pre> |
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<li> Use ffmpeg2theora: <pre> ffmpeg2theora -x 240 -y 160 -v 5 -a -1 en_1a_can_you_speak_louder_please.dv</pre> |
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</ul> |
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All of Colingo's software is free, and all of its source code is freely available to view, modify and redistribute under the Copyleft guidelines of the Gnu General Public License. All of our content is also free and publicly available, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to develop new and existing Colingo tools and technologies. |
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You may find [http://remino.net/en/taxonomy/term/151 this tutorial] helpful. |
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== Content bundle == |
== Content bundle == |
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== Community and Developers == |
== Community and Developers == |
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Colingo is an open project growing at a quick pace. Check out http://dev.colingo.org/mediawiki/index.php/Who_We_Are |
Colingo is an open project growing at a quick pace. Check out [http://dev.colingo.org/mediawiki/index.php/Who_We_Are the current core of Colingo.] |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
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*[http://www.colingo.org Colingo] |
*[http://www.colingo.org Colingo] |
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*[http://www.colingo.org/?q=node/68 Colingo's first video series, 1-2-3 inglés] |
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Revision as of 18:20, 23 October 2007
| Free language learning for all
What is Colingo?
Colingo builds tools to help people share languages.
Founded upon the pillars of free software, Colingo is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing and maintaining a platform for web-based global language exchange. Colingo takes an innovative and multifaceted approach to providing the tools for people around the world to collaborate and overcome linguistic barriers.
Currently, Colingo is working on three synergistic projects: Colingo.org, ColingoXO and LibColingo. All aspects of these projects revolve around a vast and growing user-generated public domain library of video clips. Each short clip consists of someone saying a phrase in their native language/dialect as well as metadata about that clip for categorization and searchability.
Colingo.Org
Colingo.org, our web-based community portal, allows users to tap into and add to this library and serves as a brokerage for linguistic and cultural exchange. Members build curricula of and around the videos to share with the rest of the community while simultaneously interacting with others around the world. These community-based interactions turn each member into both teacher and pupil, building a more equitable pedagogy on a global scale.
ColingoXO
- Main article: ColingoXO
ColingoXO, Colingo's software package for the One Laptop Per Child project, takes an innovative approach to language learning and harnesses the power of the laptop's (the XO) cutting edge technology. ColingoXO takes advantage of the built-in video camera, microphone, and networking capabilities of the XO to create a new paradigm of linguistic education. ColingoXO allows students around the world to add to the public library of videos and collaboratively construct narratives out of the video clips. ColingoXO allows students to splice together voices from all over the world while putting them in the driver's seat to foment global cultural exchange.
LibColingo
LibColingo serves is a record of human activity. It is the library of user-generated video clips from around the world. While providing the basis for Colingo.org and ColingoXO, LibColingo simultaneously archives and preserves languages and dialects. As cultures, languages and dialects traverse their life cycle, LibColingo serves as a global video/audio repository for global posterity. With historical and anthropological preservation in mind, LibColingo serves as a way for communities and cultures to document themselves; providing a grassroots basis for ourselves and our children to better understand the human race as a whole.
Beyond the Internet
The aforementioned projects are by no means limited to users sitting in front of a computer. Instead, Colingo advocates for discovering innovative ways to bring these tools out of the virtual world. Organizations and businesses working globally and/or locally are encouraged to harness the power of Colingo and bring it to the communities they serve.
Open and Free
All of Colingo's software is free, and all of its source code is freely available to view, modify and redistribute under the Copyleft guidelines of the Gnu General Public License. All of our content is also free and publicly available, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to develop new and existing Colingo tools and technologies.
Content bundle
Colingo released its first content bundle on August 22, 2007. This first installment of 1-2-3 ingles highlighted 14 common English phrases. The library file can be downloaded from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:colingo.xol .
Community and Developers
Colingo is an open project growing at a quick pace. Check out the current core of Colingo.