toolkid (was Question)

[Caroline Ford]

On 27/02/2009, Jeremy Schoenhaar <jeremy at fam-schoenhaar.de> wrote:
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> Hi Spase,
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> This sounds alot like the gcompris project (http://gcompris.net). Is it
> possible that these Projects are reaching the same goal? Gcompris would
> of course have to be translated, but so would anything that I could
> write ( I don't speek Macedonian ). Perhaps Gcompris could simply be
> translated, and/or extended.
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> Jeremy
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> > Thanks Jeremy,
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> > Well this software is more like a game for kids from 1 to 4 grade.
> > It has one part of the software that is called Comenius Logo where I am not
> > sure what it does but it has some interface for kids.

Logo is a programming language. kTurtle and some others also do that.

>  >There is another one
> > called Image Editor(something like paint) where kids can draw, play around
> > with pics etc.

The machines already have tuxpaint on.

>  >And the last and most important part is ToolKid which has
> > options for kids to do multiple teaching games like, math, guess the word
> > and etc. I am not sure what else you would need but let me know if you need
> > more information.

The machines already have tuxmath, also there is gcompris, childplay etc.

If it's just translation we can fix this fairly easily.

Caroline