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Dora Scilipoti |
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www/education/draft edu-cases-argentina-ecen.ht... |
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Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:18:47 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 11/06/29 12:18:46
Modified files:
education/draft: edu-cases-argentina-ecen.html
edu-cases-argentina.html
edu-cases-india-ambedkar.html
edu-cases-india-irimpanam.html
edu-cases-india.html edu-cases.html
edu-contents.html edu-faq.html
edu-projects.html edu-resources.html
edu-software-gcompris.html edu-software.html
edu-team.html edu-why.html education.html
Log message:
Might be worth to update drafts too.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases-argentina-ecen.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases-argentina.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases-india-ambedkar.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases-india-irimpanam.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-cases.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-contents.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-faq.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-projects.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-resources.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-software-gcompris.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-software.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-team.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/edu-why.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.3&r2=1.4
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/education/draft/education.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.5&r2=1.6
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notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
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notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
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notice, and the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
- <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/13 03:27:09 $<!-- timestamp end
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/29 12:18:36 $<!-- timestamp end
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Index: edu-contents.html
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
- <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/13 03:27:09 $<!-- timestamp end
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/29 12:18:36 $<!-- timestamp end
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en">
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+<head><!-- Parent-Version: $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@
<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
<dt><a href="http://guri.hipatia.net/";>GURI</a></dt>
<dd>Guri is a group which was born inside an Italian
High School as
- the result of a program carried out by GO Spatial to
raise awareness
+ the result of a program carried out by NGO Hipatia to
raise awareness
about the role of Free Software in the education field.
Guri opposes
the growing practice of treating knowledge as if it
were a tangible
object subject to ownership. It fights to change the
mainstream
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@
<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/29 12:18:36 $<!-- timestamp end
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@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/29 12:18:36 $<!-- timestamp end
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--- edu-software-gcompris.html 13 Jun 2011 12:39:59 -0000 1.2
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<h2>GCompris</h2>
<ul id="edu-navigation">
- <li><a href="edu-contents.html">Education Contents</a></li>
- <li><a href="edu-cases.html">Case Studies</a></li>
- <li class="active"><a href="edu-resources.html">Educational
Resources</a></li>
- <li><a href="edu-projects.html">Education Projects</a></li>
- <li><a href="edu-faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
- <li><a href="edu-team.html">The Team</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/education/edu-contents.html">Education Contents</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/education/edu-cases.html">Case Studies</a></li>
+ <li class="active"><a href="/education/edu-resources.html">Educational
Resources</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/education/edu-projects.html">Education Projects</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/education/edu-faq.html">FAQ</a></li>
+ <li><a href="/education/edu-team.html">The Team</a></li>
</ul>
-<p class="edu-breadcrumb"><a href="education.html">Education</a> →
-<a href="edu-resources.html">Educational Resources</a> →
-<a href="edu-software.html">Educational Free Software</a>→
+<p class="edu-breadcrumb"><a href="/education/education.html">Education</a>
→
+<a href="/education/edu-resources.html">Educational Resources</a> →
+<a href="/education/edu-software.html">Educational Free Software</a>→
GCompris</p>
-<h3>About</h3>
+<h3>Description</h3>
<a href=" /education/misc/gcompris.jpg">
-<img src="/education/misc/gcompris-sm.jpg" style="float: right"
+<img src=" /education/misc/gcompris-sm.jpg" style="float: right"
width="300" height="233" alt="Screenshot of the GCompris interface
showing the various boards."/></a>
@@ -109,74 +109,77 @@
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 placed in a central
-location to the left of the screen from which the child can choose when
-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>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</h3>
+<h3>Who's Using It and How</h3>
-GCompris is used by a large number of schools around the world with
+<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.
+program.</p>
-<p>Being Free Software and with a board-based design, GCompris is 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 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>
+<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>
-<h3>Motivation</h3>
-Teachers report that it is extremely easy for them to implement
-GCompris in their curriculum since children find it intuitive and fun
-to use. The program is also an excellent resource for mentally
-challenged older children or adults.
-
-<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
-the motor skills required to use a computer. GCompris has become an
-important resource to speed up the child's learning process.</p>
-
-<h3>How It is Used</h3>
-
-The Insight team implemented a training module for teachers that
-provides instruction on how to use the different activities of GCompris
+<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.
+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
+<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
+GCompris in their curriculum since children find it intuitive and fun
+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
+learning process in the context of developing countries like India,
+where the only chance for a child of getting accustomed with computers
+is during school time. At school, the computers are often shared and
+children have limited time to access them individually. GCompris is easy
+to use and intuitive, so it is particularly useful in this environment
+because there is practically no time spent on getting to understand how
+the program works. With GCompris children develop quickly the motor
+skills required to use a computer.</p>
+
<h3>Results</h3>
-GCompris respects the users' fundamental freedoms and this permitted
+
+<p>GCompris respects the users' fundamental freedoms and this permitted
the Insight developers and specialists to adapt the software to the
children's needs, creating new activities and boards, and proposing the
innovative use of the program to help autistic children and their
-parents. Teachers and parents were happy to note that this program is
-effective in improving the academic and functional flair of an
-intellectually challenged child.
+parents. The Insight team is also free to distribute copies of the
+modified version to teachers and parents, who can use the program at
+home without restrictions. The modified version has proved effective in
+improving the academic and functional flair of intellectually
+challenged children.</p>
</div>
</div>
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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<p>Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article are
permitted worldwide, without royalty, in any medium, provided this notice, and
the copyright notice, are preserved.</p>
<p>Updated:
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+ <!-- timestamp start -->$Date: 2011/06/29 12:18:36 $<!-- timestamp end
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