From: Denis Khasu <denkhasu@gmail.com>
Date: March 21, 2011 2:12:22 AM EDT
To: Barry McWilliams <eldrbarry@eldrbarry.net>
Subject: Re: Seeking copyright permission

Thank you very much! I am very grateful indeed that you granted me copyright permission. 

Denis Khasu.

On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Barry McWilliams wrote:

You have my permission to use my materials.

- Barry McWilliams

At 04:48 AM 3/20/2011, you wrote:
Dear Elder McWilliams,
I am a Ph D student at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Campus in Virginia. I come from Malawi, Africa. My major is curriculum and instruction in elementary literacy.  I have been interested in storytelling as a strategy for teaching and learning for communities with strong oral traditions. In Malawi, the absence of literature in homes and schools, led me to think of the possibility to use a culturally fund of knowledge, oral storytelling, in teaching children.  When I surfed on the web, I found your website.

Last Summer I did a study in Community Based Childcare Centers in which caregivers used storytelling to teach various literacy skills to children. Results showed that storytelling can indeed support communities in Malawi in their teaching children before the children join their formal schooling.

While I acknowledged using your website in my citations, I am writing to seek your copyright permission, so I can even talk freely of your website to all I will interact with. More and more people seem to find the results of the study interesting.  For example, I shared the results with the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church in February, and I was invited to present at another Presbyterian Church in Roanoke early in April.  I thought this would be an opportunity for people to get to know your wonderful work as well.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Be blessed!

Denis Khasu.