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Crayon Physics "is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings  would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. "

Phun - "is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before.
The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining.
 Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before.
 The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining" 

Dinosaur World - "Travel back in time and meet the Jurassic giants roaming a 3D dinosaur landscape.
Partner software to the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs series.Great activity, essentially a prehistoric
 safari in a virtual environment with good quality graphics. There are two versions of the game available
for download, but most modern PCs should be fine with the larger, higher quality version." by www.senteacher.org

Kea Coloring Book 

ComiKit Magic Words -  is a new type of creative software for children. With this program children can:

gMote - "is a free and customisable tool that provides fast access to frequently-used actions via mouse gestures.
Use gestures to access programs,websites and files, fill out forms, input text, control browsers, media players,
 manipulate windows and more. It can provide access to specific commands depending on the active application:
 your "R"-like gesture could bring up the "Replace" dialog in your word processor or hit "Reply" in Windows Mail. "

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VEMUS ( VirtualEuropean Music S chool)  "VEMUS aims at developing and thoroughly validating an open,
highly interactive and networked multilingual music tuition framework for popular instruments such as the flute,
the saxophone, the clarinet and the recorder. The system will address students of beginning to intermediate level."
 (VEMUS is partially supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST)
 priority of the 6th Framework Programme for R & D )

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Malted (Multimedia Authoring for Language Tutors and Educational Devele) "is an authoring computer tool designed to create multimedia and interactive didactic units to be used by learners as a means to practise their learning skills in technological environments. This tool has been specifically developed for language teaching, although it may also be used for other subjects included in the school curricula.

MALTEDconsists of three main components: the Developer Tool (DVE) , the Runtime System (RTS) and the XML Script Editor (RTE) :

  • The Developer Tool is a visual layout design tool for exercises and units which generates in an automatic and transparent way the XML code they are based on. It works on two levels. On the one hand, it includes several templates to generate in an easy way most of the exercise types frequently used in language teaching. It also manages the addition of renewable and modifiable contents, as well as text, images, graphs, audio, video and an application for voice recording through an external microphone. On the other hand, it allows to organise activities based on logical sequencing, following a didactic development plan. This way, we can create work units featuring flexible navigation systems. Designers will also find an opportunity to use their creativity freely, as well as the possibility to adopt and apply various didactic approaches.
  • The Runtime System can be used to view and complete the exercises. Once the answers have been checked, the corresponding score will be given. Aside from its own viewer, this programme can also interact with the Net by using a supplementary system (a Javaapplet, where Java is the general visual environment used by the system) thanks to which contents can be presented on screen through an ordinaryweb browser.
  • The Script Editoris a mixed application comprising an XML script processor and the system viewer to see the immediate results of the changes just made. It is mainly intended for designers with programming skills.

In addition to this, the system can be linked to two other complements: one calledLearning Management System (LMS), which allows to register and follow up the progress each learner has made within a particular unit; and another one known as theAsset Base (AB), an external data base where designers can search amongst a range of multimedia resources and even some completed exercises, which provides a collaborative approach to this environment and gives way to making a profitable use of common efforts."              

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Didactic software to learn French

Ri-li is an arcade game licensed under the GPL     

Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children

GCompris - "is an educational software which propose different activities to children from 2 to 10 years old.
Some of the activities are game orientated, but nonetheless still educational. Below you can find a list of
categories with some of the activities available in that category.

Tux Paint   "Open Source Drawing Software for Children"

Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview."

Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals,
flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map
exercises!Examples of exercises: countries in Europe; American states; American state capitals; French cities;
cities in Mexico; countries in Asia, etc, etc... Seterra is perfect for classroom use, for homeschooling or just
 for fun! "  (Marianne Wartoft )

Sebrian ABC It's never too early for your child to become familiar with letters and numbers. Sebran's ABC's colorful pictures,
 pleasant music, and gentle games teach letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading. The program teaches
using either Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish,
 French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Samoan, Slovak,
Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Swahili or Swedish (in Swedish, the droll zebra gracing the main screen is called "sebran").

The six simpler exercises display four possible answers. Choose the right one and it becomes a smile; an error gets a frown
 and a chance to try again. The How Many? counting game introduces the numbers from 1 to 9. These are used in the Add,
Subtract, and Multiply matching games, which each function at two levels of difficulty. In Pick A Picture, one of four
pictures matches a word; First Letter offers four possible letters completing a word. Your child can employ the skills
gained in these exercises to play Memory, Word Memory, or Hangman. Finally, the ABC Rain, Letter Rain, and 1+2 Rain games
help train little fingers in using the keyboard. " (Marianne Wartoft )

BlockCAD is a freeware program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks. You can save your models, or save pictures of them (.bmp, .jpg),
 even reuse a complete model as a part in another model. Everything can be controlled with the mouse, but it's also possible to use
 the keyboard for most of the commands, making 'routine building' more effective, and there is a minimum of text involved, to make
it easier for kids, BlockCAD is not a full CAD program, the pieces can only be placed 'studs up', and rotated in steps of 90 degrees.
It is impossible to draw pieces that are partly inside other parts, which excludes almost all of the Lego Technic line, but there's
still a lot of fun to be had with it. "


 RoboMind "is a new and very simple educational programming language that will familiarize you with the basics of computer science
by programming your own robot. In addition to an introduction into popular programming techniques, you will also gain insight
into areas such as robotics and artificial intelligence."

Hiyah Free Software The programs are based on high interest subjects, such as nursery rhymes, holidays, and birthday themes. 
The software keeps children engaged and actively learning.  And for children with limited language skills,
my programs can help give meaning to words and concepts.  Holidays, birthdays, going to the doctor, dentist,
or getting a haircut, are all broken down into sequential steps to thoroughly explain the event." 

MuseScore - A Free Open-Souce Music Composition And Notation Program.

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL. Some highlights:

  • WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet"
  • Unlimited number of staves
  • Up to four voices per staff
  • Easy and fast note entry with mouse, keyboard or MIDI
  • Integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer
  • Import and export of MusicXML and Standard MIDI Files "

LilyPond "is an automated engraving system. It formats music beautifully and automatically, and has a friendly syntax for its input files."  

Virtual Moon Atlas


OpenUniverse "simulating the Solar System's bodies in 3D on your Windows or Linux PC (will work in most *NIX's as well).
In difference to quite a few other programs it does so in realtime. Meaning you can view all the planets,
moons and spaceships move along their paths, trace them, follow them, orbit them and even control them
(time and spaceship contol). And you won't have to fight your way through hordes of green, slimey and one-eyed
 aliens for that ;-)" 

"Il Programma Dizionario many free dictionaries!     Windows (95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP) ."

 

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