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A brief history
• started with an interest in multilingual resources for children
• subsequently funded by the EC Joint Call for Educational Multimedia– partners in at least three countries– involvement of a commercial organisation.
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• change of focus from commercial use to use with teachers and children
• change of partners: Spanish were too expensive!
• change of partner: need for commercial focus
• new partner required to make up numbers.
Need for flexibility
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Final line-up
• Errobi Ikastola: Euskara
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Catalunya
• GCO: Fryslân
• Canolfan Gymraeg San Helen: Cymru
• DTP Workshop, ITE: Eire
• Universities of Reading and Brighton, UK
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Redefining the goals
• easy-to-use tool
• principles of best practice for screen based learning materials
• designed specifically to meet the needs of bilingual children and teachers.
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Advantages
• the opportunity for networking and the exchange of ideas
• a management structure which, while cumbersome, gets the job done
• a source of funding for issues which are often sadly neglected.
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Disadvantages
• extremely bureaucratic
• tardy payment
• Henry Kissinger syndrome
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Delivering the deliverables
• An rí santach, the Irish book – five other language versions
• A story for Europe: the CD-ROM– program in nine languages– manuals– example stories
• also downloadable from the Internet.
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Current challenges
• technical– improving functionality of the software– extending the range of languages
• creating a community of users– training ‘consultants’– maintaining the website– creating an incentive for using the program
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Future funding
• Culture 2000: Fabula Virtual Library
• DG XX11: safeguarding of European Regional and Minority languages: Action Fabula
• practical support for applications from European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages.
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Virtual reality or reality?
• localisation of ideas and not just software
• ensuring that proper structures are in place
• making links with other initiatives and groups with overlapping interests.
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Dream teams
• public or private sector?
• experienced or inexperienced?
• The role of the co-ordinator.
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Friends of Fabula
www.fabula-eu.org