Cool Pia! I will add the list below for Daniel to install on the the Ubuntu Linux boot image that we are working on for school.<br><br>I have had some staff curl their noses up at TuxPaint and TuxType but they dont see the kids in our English language centre giggle and play about with these tools to make sound filled art scapes during lunchtime. I saw the same thing with my kids at home, learning how to download and play with some of the free 3D games that can run on Linux this January term break. (I must add, on some old hardware that was destined for the dump master!)
<br><br>Regards Roland<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pia Waugh</b> <<a href="mailto:greebo@pipka.org">greebo@pipka.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<quote who="Roland Gesthuizen"><br><br>> Stellarium and Celestia are two very cool (and very free) open source<br>> astronomy software packages.<br><br>We had some computers set up for school kids at the Education Expo in Sydney
<br>last year (about 10,000 attendees or so). We had kids queued up waiting to<br>play with our computers and they had only the following things set up:<br><br>Edubuntu (the Education version of Ubuntu) with the following age based
<br>activities which were _very_ successful, so they might be useful to some of<br>you :)<br><br>K - 3<br> - Gcompris (an education suite for younger kids with about 30 games<br> therein)<br> - Tuxpaint<br> - Tuxracer
<br><br>4 - 6<br> - Tuxracer<br> - GIMP<br> - Gcompris<br> - Tuxtype<br><br>7 - 12<br> - GIMP<br> - Open Office<br> - Write down 5 apps that would be useful to you<br><br>Anyway, the challenge pages are attached for interests sake.
<br><br>I've also attached a thing I did a while ago that maps learning objectives<br>with some Open Source projects. Probably out of date, but it might be useful<br>to some :)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Pia<br><br>--<br>Linux Australia
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