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Education Software that Supports Internationalization?

Posted by Cliff on from the lessons-in-your-language dept.

valluvar9000 asks: "I recently was able to talk a local secondary school (public) into letting me convert their existing computer systems (not in use and in storage) into a LTSP based setup. They are OK with it as long as it does not cost them money. However the whole solution needs to be deployed in the local language (Tamil) as the medium of instruction is not English. Fortunately Tamil (TSCII & Unicode) support is widely available and quite mature on KDE and GNOME. Can Slashdot help with the selection of good educational tools (Maths, Science, General problem solving and any other topic of interest) that are GUI based (KDE preferably) and internationalizable (this is important)? The target ages are between 6 years to 12 years."

12 comments

  1. Check out the K12LTSP project... by arcadum · · Score: 4, Informative

    K12LTSP is a great distro built for what you are talking about... At least some of the packages they include should be internationalizable.

  2. kig by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 2, Informative

    in kdeedu

    http://edu.kde.org/kig/screenshots.php

    the entirety of kdeedu is a good candidate too.

  3. LingoTeach by retostamm · · Score: 3, Informative
    LingoTeach is a fully internationalized multimedia language instruction tool. It's not yet translated to Tamil yet, though.

    It has about 900 words and can teach Spanish, English and German with sound.

    It can teach some 15 other languages too, but has no sound. It's fully Unicode based (data and localisation).

    Disclaimer: I started this project...

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    get 7 free Japanese lessons.
  4. LIFE mailing list by satyap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    LIFE -- A Mailing List for Free Software Solutions for Education http:// mm.hbcse.tifr.res.in/mailman/listinfo/life

    1. Re:LIFE mailing list by bcrowell · · Score: 1

      The link seems to be broken -- maybe a typo?

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      Find free books.
    2. Re:LIFE mailing list by satyap · · Score: 1

      Remove the spaces. I didn't want them to get /.ed.

  5. GraphThing by XoXus · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'll of course plug my own project, GraphThing.

    It's a GTK-based program that has its own i18n/l10n functionality (mainly because I don't like how gettext is designed) for investigating graph theoretic mathematics.

    1. Re:GraphThing by lylum · · Score: 1

      >for investigating graph theoretic mathematics. Hello??? He said 6 to 12 years, not 6th through 12th grade!! I might have been fascinated by your program when I was approaching 12 but I bet for most kids its too much.

  6. Skolelinux by Tete-a-tete · · Score: 2, Informative
    Please take a look at Skolelinux. Several multilinugual programs are bundeled with this Linux distribution for schools, and more will be added soon.

    The project has in fact also been in touch with the people behind Tamilnet, which is also based in Oslo, Norway.

    Good luck!

  7. Here is the right link, sorry by Tete-a-tete · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try this instead: Skolelinux

  8. Check out ofset freeduc by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out the knoppix based bootable CD, it includes the most valuable edu apps (freeduc cd)

    This CD is an excellent add on to any LTSP based school. For example, teacher can use it at home to prepare exercise without having to install GNU/Linux at home)