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Re: [school-discuss] 3D interactive games for Kindergarten fromopen source
Great, that's all gcompris is about ;)
As for the 3D, I prefer not to use it because it requires special
kwnoledge to develop and higher level of hardware that most school
dont't have.
You won't find such demo in the open source area. We don't need to demo
a product because you can get the full package free as well.
Then there is a technology step because I assume most of your target is
Windows based, many open source software do require Linux.
As for gcompris, the best way to demo it is to use the freeduc cd.
http://www.ofset.org/projects/edusoft/edusoft.html
This will let your teacher run gcompris and many other free education
oriented application directly from a CDROM without installing anything.
Bruno.
Le mer 18/12/2002 à 16:49, Stephen Liu a écrit :
> Hi Jim,
>
> Thanks for your response and advice.
>
> Actually I can find many of them with google search. But the real
> difficulty is I must have them downloaded, installed and playing them
> before I know what kind of games they are. No demo on their websites
> except screen shots. Teachers are reluctant to accept them. Unlike those
> games available on markets they have demo showing how to play and their
> content as well.
>
> I have K12LTSP running and will check.
>
> B.Regards
> Stephen Liu
>
>
> At 10:04 AM 12/18/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Stephen Liu wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your response. What I am looking for can be briefly focused
> > > as follows:
> > >
> > > 1) Simple mathmatics
> > > 2) Simple colour filling
> > > 3) Simple spelling
> > > 4) Simple games, etc.
> > > 5) 2D can be OK but 3D is more attractive
> > > 6) The instruction has to be simple easily understood by teachers of non
> > > technical mind
> > > 7) Music is not important
> > > etc.
> >
> >Hi Stephen,
> >Check out gcompris (it's on the seul/edu application index under
> >EduGames).
> >I'm pretty sure this is delivered as part of K12LTSP (which you're
> >running, right?)
> >It didn't run out-of-the-box on my K12LTSP, but I didn't have time to
> >look into it.
> >I did run it in a non-terminal environment and it is pretty impressive.
> >I think it's very close to what you're asking for, and it'd be worth the
> >time it might take to make it work in K12LTSP.
> >
> >--
> >Jim Thomas Principal Applications Engineer Bittware, Inc
> >jthomas@bittware.com http://www.bittware.com (703) 779-7770
> >The sooner you get behind, the more time you'll have to catch up