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(tags: software collaborative+software)
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My bookmarks on Tasty. Quite a nice initiative.
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FN’s experimental WordPress blog. Still very bare.
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This article endeavours to denote and promote pedagogical experimentations concerning a Free/Open technology called a \”Wiki\”. An intensely simple, accessible and collaborative hypertext tool Wiki software challenges and complexifies traditional notions
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OWL\’s mission is to impact children\’s school success by tapping the power of digital technology and peer teaching to ignite learning after school, during summers, and at home.(tags: education)
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This is the site of Kiev Linux Users Group. There are projects hosted which might be of interest to you; online LUG list is here to help find people here in Ukraine.
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Article on mobile-blogging(tags: blog)
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[GNU]Linux users group of Durgapur, West Bengal, India. Motto: Sekho ebang Sekhao (Learn and teach others)
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Ankur is working toward supporting Bangla(Bengali) language on GNU/Linux operating system. However, most of our projects are focused on XFree86.org\’s XServer. Some of our projects are in fact platform independent and adds supports of other operating syst
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Useful listing of Free Software (and Open Source) with an educational touch.
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Multiplication Station is an application to help memorize multiplication tables through 12×12. The user logs in and faces a blank 12×12 grid. The program gives all the products in random order. When a correct answer is given, the problem is marked \”compl
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Pauker is a completely free (OpenSource, GPL) flash card based, learning application, written in java using the leitner cardfile system, and works offline without the need of an internet connection.
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The PMOS help desk, once sold commercially, is now free and open source. The ticket system allows for unlimited staff members and departments, ticket statistics, auto-replies and pre-defined responses, searchable knowledge base, customer surveys, POP3 imp
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Claroline is an Open Source software based on PHP /MySQL. It\’s a collaborative learning environment allowing teachers or education institutions to create and administer courses through the web. The system provides group management, forums, document repos
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Mindscript is many things. Mindscript is a software development environment. Programming takes place in a visual way that enables the students to easily understand complex programming concepts (e.g. objects, variables, etc). Mindscript is also a mathemati
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Anagramarama – a FREE* word game for Linux, Windows and BeOS. The aim is to find as many words as possible in the time available. Get the longest word and you\’ll advance to the next level. Three words describe it… Simple Addictive Fun (GNU Public Licen
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Games for French pre_school including memory, letters falling, puzzle, labyrinth, letters & numbers, double entry arrays, domino, counting, enumeration, draw, sort, arrangement, …
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Atomix is yet another little mind game. You have to build molecules out of single atoms laying around. Of course there is a time limit and the handling is not as easy as you might expect ;-). This game is inspiried by the original Amiga game Atomix.
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Childsplay is a \’suite\’ of educational games for young children, like gcompris, but without the overkill of c/c++ and the gnome environ.:-)
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This program was written for a competition from Linux Magazine. The competition was held because of a lack of good educational software for primary schools. The program CubeTest is aimed at primary school students. With it, you can train your spatial insi
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n CueCard is a flash card program designed to help studying. It has a simple and intuitive interface and supports pictures on cards and simple text formatting. Its smart study algorithm dynamically adjusts card frequency for learned and problem cards,
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DroidQuest is a Java 2 recreation of the classic educational game \”Robot Odyssey I\”. Robot Odyssey I was originally written by The Learning Company for the Apple ][ computer, and it teaches the basics of digital logic programming. Within the game you so
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GCompris is a simple educational game for children (starting at 3 years old). It is board-based and currently includes several boards. It offers a board dedicated to little kids which teaches them how to use a mouse and keyboard. Some boards teach letters
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Gretools is a collection of programs which use the Barron\’s word list to help users improve their vocabulary. The wordlist is adapted from the one found at http://pllab.kaist.ac.kr/~gladius/gre/, and contains about 4000 words. gretools consists of a gtk-
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Kalcul is a game for children, aged 8 to 15, to help them improve their math skills interactively.
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Kard is a game for children aged 2 to 8, to help develop memory and concentration. Click on two cards, remember their color and find the pairs of the same color.
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A coloring book program. Allows the user to pick from a collection of pictures and to color the selected picture in.
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KLettres aims to teach very young children (2-6 years old) the alphabet and the recognition of simple sounds. It is a game in the French language. It requires KDE2 and Qt-2. It also helps young children to use the keyboard. KLettres currently has 4 levels
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KHangMan is based on the well-known \”hangman\” game. It is aimed for children aged 6+. A word is hidden, you guess the word one letter after another. Each time you guess wrong, a hangman is drawn. If you find the word before the man is hanged, you win.
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LeoCAD is a CAD program that uses bricks similar to those found in many toys (but they don\’t represent any particular brand).
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Lexter is a real-time word puzzle for text terminals. Arrange the falling letters into words to score points. Lexter supports internationalization and multiple dictionaries. The package contains English and French dictionaries, but needs a French gettext
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Linux Letters and Numbers is a fun and educational learning game intended for children 2 and up. It helps children learn or improve their letters, numbers, spelling, and vocabulary skills through the use of interesting pictures. It also helps them develop
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Simple flashcard style javascript web application for memorizing multiplication tables through \”12 x 12\”. There are twelve levels, where level one consists of \”1*1, 1*2, … 1*12\”, level two consists of \”2*1, 2*2 … 2*12\” and so-on up through level
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Matritsa is a game for kids that puts cards into a table that match visual properties of the row and the column. You can construct an a graphical addition table, for instance.
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Multiplication Station is an application to help memorize multiplication tables through 12×12. The user logs in and faces a blank 12×12 grid. The program gives all the products in random order. When a correct answer is given, the problem is marked \”compl
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Pavlov is a free, Java-based desktop learning environment which uses the principles of Pavlovian and operant conditioning to help the user study large question databases. Pavlov is a highly configurable environment which uses easy to write scripts and Jav
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Description Pizza Business is a game written in object-oriented C++ in which you start and control pizza restaurants, limited to a budget. The game is being targeted for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux.
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Dov Grobgeld has created some early education programs using the GNOME canvas widget.. Includes Abc-blocks (Perl/Gtk), Beads(Perl/Gtk), GMemory(Perl/Gtk), Matritsa(Gnome/C).
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The goal of Project LRNJ is to create an entertaining console-style RPG which teaches Japanese. Slime Forest is the first release: a demo of the battle system using graphics from the upcoming katakana adventure and a training set of 1000 kanji. Its main p
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PyTrail is a game based on our beloved Oregon Trail. Take your family/crew across the United States to the lovely state of Oregon. Python is the main language, using Pygame – a Python based game infrastructure.
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QuizzShow is an application for creating and playing game shows somewhat along the lines of Jeopardy – it was written for conducting reviews in class – It was written using the community edition of Kylix (Delphi for Linux) and is released under the GPL.
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RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
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The RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a platform for evaluating multiple autonomous intelligent agents in a realworld-like domain. The simulator allows two teams of 11 players and one coach to interact in a simulated game of soccer. The team members connect to
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Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.
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Simutrans is a transport and economical simulation game. There are versions for Linux, BeOS and Windows available. Simutrans has not yet reached production state, but it is quite possible to build big transport networks between the industries and cities.
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Skill Literature is a part of Logical Literature (lolit) and aims to teach children aged 4-10 to work with, and think about, different shapes. This pipeline game can only be won with sufficient insight, not speed.
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Sticker Book is a program which lets you place images on a background scene. Every parent surely knows how much fun kids have with these. Indeed, they are a must for any long plane or car ride. Our program is even better than the paper version (assuming y
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The Linux Memory Game is an X11 game for children ages 3 and up, based on the card game \”Memory\”. It is written using GTK+ library. Although it is a children\’s game, it has five skill levels, the higher ones are challenging to adults as well. Additiona
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\”The Neverending Tale\” is a web-based text adventure game for kids. It is essentially a choose-your-own-adventure book where all pages are contributed by prior readers. Implemented in perl and C. Working beta; public version has 50,000 active pages.
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Tickletux Hangman\’s a Hangman game written in TCL/Tk and features skinability, which allows everything from the background and Hangman images to the word list to be edited.
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TutorShooter is basically a clone of an old Atari game called \”Word Zapper\”. The object is to shoot the letter and form the word that is given to you. It is used to teach children how to spell, do basic math, and improve memory recall.
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n Tux Paint is an easy-to-use drawing program geared towards young children. It has an attractive and simple interface, and graphics and sound effects that get played as the user interacts. It requires SDL, SDL_image, SDL_ttf and, optionally, SDL_mixer
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XLetters is a game to practice your typing skill. The goal is to type the falling words before they reach the bottom of the window.
December 2005
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December 11, 2005
December 11, 2005
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