[education-wg] List of Education FOSS projects

[Angel Berrios Davila]

Hi Don!

In the past I have found good tools for my customers at:

http://www.schoolforge.net
http://opensourceschools.org

Hope this helps.

Angel

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 00:46 -0600, Don Davis 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.)
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> education-wg mailing list
> education-wg at opensourceforamerica.org
> http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/education-wg
>