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--- draft/edu-software-gcompris.html 5 Jun 2011 20:06:53 -0000 1.1
+++ draft/edu-software-gcompris.html 13 Jun 2011 12:39:59 -0000 1.2
@@ -128,15 +128,17 @@
program.
<p>Being Free Software and with a board-based design, GCompris is highly
-and easily adaptable to particular environments. One example of this use
-is the work done by the <a href="http://insight.kerala.gov.in/";>Insight
-Project</a> of Kerala, in India. The project is using
-and adapting the program to develop resources for children and proposing
-an innovative usage of GCompris to support the development of cognitive
-and motor skills of autistic children. The Insight project also
-releases material for parents and special educators to help them
-understand how to use the software and how to utilize it to communicate
-with their children.</p>
+and easily adaptable to particular environments. One example of
+innovative use of GCompris is in the work done by the
+ <a href="http://insight.kerala.gov.in/";>Insight Project</a> of Kerala,
+in India. The project aims to bring benefits of free software to
+differently abled persons in the state of Kerala, India. They found that
+ GCompris is a powerful tool to improve the communicative and motor
+skills of mentally challenged persons like children with autism. The
+project is using and adapting the program for the particular needs of
+its target community. It also released a small handbook for parents and
+special educators to help them understand how to use the software to
+improve skills of children.</p>
<h3>Motivation</h3>
Teachers report that it is extremely easy for them to implement
@@ -144,10 +146,9 @@
to use. The program is also an excellent resource for mentally
challenged older children or adults.
-<p>In the case of the implementation by the Insight Project, it is
-important to note that generally in India the only chance of a child
-of getting accustomed with computers is during school time. The machines
-are often shared and children have limited time to access them
+<p>In the context of developing countries like India, the only chance of
+a child of getting accustomed with computers is during school time. The
+computers are often shared and children have limited time to access them
individually. GCompris is particularly useful in this environment
because there is practically no time spent on getting to understand how
the program works. Easy to use and intuitive, children develop quickly
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/13 12:39:59 $<!-- timestamp end
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+GCompris</p>
+
+<h3>Description</h3>
+
+<a href=" /education/misc/gcompris.jpg">
+<img src=" /gcompris-sm.jpg" style="float: right"
+width="300" height="233" alt="Screenshot of the GCompris interface
+showing the various boards."/></a>
+
+<p>GCompris is a cross-platform complete educational suite for children
+from 2 to 10 years old, and it is part of the GNU project. It includes
+more than 40 entertaining activities that help little kids learn skills
+such as the recognition of letters and numbers, the use of the mouse and
+keyboard, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector
+drawing, language learning through games, and much more. The program
+includes a simple text processor to produce documents with basic text
+style. Another feature is the animation tool, which can be employed as a
+simple and effective method to support story telling, thus improving
+communication with children and helping them to express themselves.</p>
+
+<p>Each activity in GCompris is a "board". Boards are grouped on a
+yellow bar to the left of the screen, from which the child can choose
+as soon as the program is started. The design based on boards makes it
+easy to add new activities or to adapt the program to specific needs.
+The program itself and all boards are available in many different
+languages.</p>
+
+<p>To learn more: <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/project/gcompris/";>
+FSF Directory</a>, <a href="http://gcompris.net/";>
+GCompris Official Website</a></p>
+
+<h3>Who's Using It and How</h3>
+
+<p>GCompris is used by a large number of schools around the world with
+excellent results. It is interesting reading the many
+<a href="http://gcompris.net/-Schools-using-it-";>comments and
+testimonies</a> submitted by teachers of all grades who are using the
+program.</p>
+
+<p>Its board-based design makes it highly and easily adaptable to
+particular environments. One example of innovative use of GCompris is in
+the work done by the
+<a href="http://insight.kerala.gov.in/";>Insight Project</a> of Kerala,
+in India. The project aims to bring the benefits of Free Software to
+differently abled people in the State. They found that GCompris is a
+powerful tool to improve the communicative and motor skills of mentally
+challenged persons like children with autism. The project is using and
+adapting the program for the particular needs of its target community.</p>
+
+<p>The Insight team implemented a training module for teachers that
+provides instructions on how to use the different activities of GCompris
+when working with children with special needs, to help these children
+acquire abilities such as eye-hand coordination, memory, listening, and
+improving the child's attention span. The module addresses different
+levels of education, from pre-school to the primary level. A small
+handbook was also distributed to parents and special educators to help
+them understand how to use the software to improve children's skills.</p>
+
+<p>GCompris is also used to help older children understand the
+relationship between numbers, learn basic arithmetic operations, train
+them in analytical reasoning, and to improve communicative skills as
+well as spelling, reading and writing.</p>
+
+<h3>Why</h3>
+
+<p>Teachers report that it is extremely easy for them to implement
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+to use. The program is also an excellent resource for mentally
+challenged children and adults.</p>
+
+<p>GCompris has become an important resource to speed up the child's
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+because there is practically no time spent on getting to understand how
+the program works. With GCompris children develop quickly the motor
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+<p>GCompris respects the users' fundamental freedoms and this permitted
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+innovative use of the program to help autistic children and their
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