Description

Chat ak Sourit (The Cat and the Mouse) is a wonderful children'sbook, with built in testing, written by the First Grade class atthe Baptist Masikren School, Masikren, Lagonav, Haiti. Thisapplication was developed by Dimitri from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Dimitri is an intern in the Development Internship component ofACP's Open Educational Resources Development Program(http://aconnectedplanet.org/projects/intern-project). The book ispart of a collection from Mother Tongue Books which is a program atthe Matenwa Community Learning Center (http://matenwaclc.org/) onLagonav. Mother Tongue Books and the Matenwa Community LearningCenter are supported by the Friends of Matenwa(http://www.friendsofmatenwa.org/). Chat ak Sourit was originallywritten in Haitian Creole and has been translated into French andEnglish. Audio in all three languages is provided in theapplication. The Matènwa Community Learning Center provided theHaitian Creole recordings for the application. A Connected PlanetFoundation (ACP) converted the book, developed and built in testinginto the application. Virtually no applications exist in HaitianCreole. So ACP has started building its own applications. ACP’sfocus is on education apps for young Haitian children. Look forACP’s other applications about numbers, colors & shapes, fruits& vegetables and animals. ACP’s staff and volunteers includeprofessionals from the Academic, Education, Computer Science,Business, Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Speech LanguagePathology sectors.