[education-wg] List of Education FOSS projects

[David López]

Hi Don, I agree that FOSS software adapted for special needs is a great idea
and quite convenient.

I have a couple of graduate students migrating proprietary applications
(such as the ones you describe, pretty simple albeit with licensing costs up
to 2000$) into Google web toolkit, Google Gears and Android. As soon as they
have running code I will let you know.

We opted for GWT as it provides running code for almost every web browser
(any other alternatives are welcomed). We believe that having code for
Android may be useful in next generation ebook Readers and tablet PC's.

A couple of years ago while visiting a school I noticed that students with
special needs often require their parents adapting learning contents (for
instance preparing a word document with arithmetic or language exercises)
before lessons take place.

Wouldn't it be great to have some kind of learning repository structured in
a way that parents could find (and contribute) content specific to:
cognitive needs, age and topic ?? (Wiki4all ?)

Regards,

David López

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Don Davis <dondavis at reglue.org> wrote:

> Is there a checklist/ organization keeping track of needed/ in progress
> FOSS for education projects? There are the projects on sourceforge, but that
> is more of a random medley of education related programs not cohesively
> listed.
>
> I thought of this because I was contemplating how easy it might be to code
> a FOSS program for communication with special needs students.
>
> In special education, there is a program that uses simple stick figures to
> communicate with special needs students. Each license is $400-$800.
> Rewriting a FOSS implementation of this should not be hard. The largest yet
> easiest part would be creating a large library of copyleft images available
> for use in the program. 12 year olds on Gimp could do this. A group of 12-15
> teenagers could crank out a lot of images in a one week half day summer
> school project. (The images could also be used in ESL classrooms.)
>
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