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Re: [school-discuss] Example teacher request for OSS

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From: Bill Kendrick <nbs@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:56:10 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:24:30AM -0400, Daniel Howard wrote:
> Further to Sharon and Justin's comments about making it easy for 
> teachers looking for open source software applications, here is a 
> request from one of my 4th grade teachers.  I scanned the App Index, and 
> the applications listed under geography look more like tools to build 
> something or complex GIS apps, as opposed to applications for students 
> to learn basic map skills, geography, or latitude and longitude.  Anyone 
> have any suggestions?  Daniel

KDE's Edutainment Project includes an app that _might_ be what his teachers
are looking for:

  KGeography
  http://kgeography.berlios.de/


There may be others, but this one jumped to mind.  Good luck!

-- 
-bill!
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