Re: [school-discuss] Re: [ilug-goa] Educational software forschools... (from Goa/India)

[Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin@free.fr>]

Le mar 07/10/2003 à 08:57, Frederick Noronha (FN) a écrit :
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, mini jerome wrote:
> It has a wide range of software for kids, but I found Gcompris the most 
> comprehensive. (It's documentation could be better, and there are still 
> about 4-5 games out of maybe 20 or more from Gcompris that I have still 
> not deciphered. But my five-year-old daughter is helping me with this 
> job.) The games the kid-in-me liked best included jig-saw puzzles of 
> famous European paintings, chess (it was amazingly easy to introduce it to 
> my five-year-old, who even knows to go for the HELP > HINT when she's in a 
> fix, though she cannot read adequately). There are also interesting 
> software to learn the names of colours, do basic addition as the dice fall 
> down the screen, learn how to move the mouse (my daughter was using it to 
> teach her grandmother, who is also interested in learning), and other 
> aspects.I was most surprised when my daughter discovered how to play a 
> game I didn't know existed! 
> 
Thanks for your gcompris promotion (I also sow the article where you
mention the bear behind). I'd like to mention that gcompris includes
more than 40 activities, not 20.

I would also be pleased to have a teacher or a group of teacher who can
write in english (if possible) an complete the inline documentation.
Once done, I can generate open office little book with screenshots and
the complete activity description. The online activity description is
also automaticaly generated and it gives Windowser a good reason to
format c: ;)

To me, that's the last step to make gcompris a real professional
educational tool.

Contact me or the gcompris mailing list.

Bruno.