[Opensource] Stellarium and Celestia

[Roland Gesthuizen]

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.

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!)

Regards Roland

On 11/02/07, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org> wrote:
>
> <quote who="Roland Gesthuizen">
>
> > Stellarium and Celestia are two very cool (and very free) open source
> > astronomy software packages.
>
> We had some computers set up for school kids at the Education Expo in
> Sydney
> last year (about 10,000 attendees or so). We had kids queued up waiting to
> play with our computers and they had only the following things set up:
>
> Edubuntu (the Education version of Ubuntu) with the following age based
> activities which were _very_ successful, so they might be useful to some
> of
> you :)
>
> K - 3
>     - Gcompris (an education suite for younger kids with about 30 games
>       therein)
>     - Tuxpaint
>     - Tuxracer
>
> 4 - 6
>     - Tuxracer
>     - GIMP
>     - Gcompris
>     - Tuxtype
>
> 7 - 12
>     - GIMP
>     - Open Office
>     - Write down 5 apps that would be useful to you
>
> Anyway, the challenge pages are attached for interests sake.
>
> I've also attached a thing I did a while ago that maps learning objectives
> with some Open Source projects. Probably out of date, but it might be
> useful
> to some :)
>
> Cheers,
> Pia
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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