Spreading the word for a friend who’s doing her Master’s at Stanford:

I’ll be deploying the teachermate to an underserved site in Pinas. (I’m
still in the process of finalizing the exact details with the partner site.) The
teachermate is basically an educational mobile device. It is currently targeted
towards teaching mathand improving literacy at the grade 1/grade 2 level.

There are existing applications that will be deployed to the site in the
Philippines. However, a big concern is the literacy part. Since the teachermate was initially created for US children, the e-books are in English. My target is to come up with at least 20 stories in Filipino for the Philippine audience.

Unfortunately, this is out of my expertise. I was hoping you could help me find:

  • people who are willing to write short stories in Filipino. It doesn’t have to be that long — a minimum of 100 words is OK since these are grade 1/grade 2 level children
  • people who are willing to do some illustrations based on the stories. The initial deployment is at the 3rd week of March. Not all of the stories are targeted to be digitized by then. Again, since the stories are short, this would require around 4 or 5 illustrations per story

(Note: It doesn’t have to be the same person writing and illustrating.)

Unfortunately, we will not be able to pay anything other than warm fuzzy
feelings for contributing. However, volunteers will be recognized for their
efforts. Any stories or illustrations they create will be attributed to them.

Thanks! If you find someone who’s interested, please have them contact me
directly via my school e-mail address (msogono[at]stanford.edu).

–
Mela Sogono
MA Learning, Design, & Technology
Stanford University, Class of 2009

Where else can we find a pool of talented writers but in the Pinoywrimos, right? :)