Thank you KL. You understand exactly what I mean. I hoped your post would say "Oh, I can do that easily."
Perhaps if I took my vision down a few notches it would become more realistic. Could a program be designed that enlarged the closed captions that already existed and then moved them to the center of the screen? That would be an improvement to DVDs like Spiderman.
The next step would be a program that also highlighted those closed captions from left to right during the time they were on the screen. It wouldn't be timed perfectly, but it might be close enough to get reading results. It would at least naturally teach reading concepts. It would need more testing then my original plan to see what results it got. What do you think? Would this be hard for a really smart programer like you, or someone you know?
Love,
Jennifer
Would require extremely intelligent software to do that, which would cost a ton of money, and unfortunately doesn't seem feasible at all (cost vs benefit analysis). You're better off working with content providers to embed the word info into the DVD in the form of special coding so a special software can recognize and display it (in which case your original idea would become easy). Would require content that supports this format though.
According to my own observations LittleReader/Maths etc could benefit from an animation software...? StarFall is holding my 4 year old sons attention for much longer periods than slideshows ever will.
for those ages, definitely. Which is why our stories use pictures which have animations. Over time they will get more and more elaborate as we put more resources into them.
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