Re: Modest idea

[Wandered Inn <esoteric denali atlnet com>]

I personally have a HUGE interest in educational software, as my wife is
a 3rd grade teacher.  She is provided one computer by the school in her
room.  I recently put another in there, but alas, it's running Windows,
because there is no educational software to be had that will run on
Linux (to my knowledge).  Not only would I be interesting in hearing
from folks who know of such software, I'd also be interested in
investing my own time and programming skills in developing such
software.

Anything along the lines of the 'Magic School Bus' series (M$, I know)
would be great.  There are many other titles:

Imagination Express - Ocean
Reader Rabbit series
Mathblaster series

Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> It would be helpful if you would give more detail on what sort
> of educational games you are talking about.  There is a tremendous
> variety of approaches to educational software including game-like
> interfaces, pictographic/storybook interfaces and so on.  What's
> missing, that you need?
> 
> I suppose some rapid development tools would be nice.  But, I imagine
> each type of game would require its own rapid development tool set.
> 
>         Miles
> 
> Jrme Marant wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Linux lacks educational (Lesson for children, etc) and cultural applications
> > (Fine arts, Nature, etc).
> > These kinds of applications are, with games, a reason for choosing an
> > OS rather than an other one.
> > IMHO, It could be nice to have a workshop tool for producing such
> > applications. I don't know
> > if this already exists or is in progress.
> >
> > This tool could feature (messy but just keep the idea)
> > - standard GNOME features like XML, gnome-db, gtkhtml, etc.
> > - Unified interface for all created applications
> > - Step by step CD production up to CD burning
> > - generation of a installation executable that would run the
> >   application from a CD
> >
> > Any interest ? Anything planned ?
> >
> > Jerome.
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