GCompris, educational software for the kids
GCompris is an educational software which proposes miscellaneous activities to kids from 2 to 10
Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find activities in the following topics:
- computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
- algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
- science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, ...
- geography: place the country on the map
- games: chess, memory, ...
- reading: reading practice
- other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, ...
All in all, gcompris proposes more than 50 activities and it continues to evolves. gcompris is a free software, you have the possibility to adapt it to your needs or to improve it, and, why not, to share your work with the kids of all the world.
Web site
You will find the latest information concerning gcompris on the web site gcompris.net.
Awards
gcompris won the education trophee at the trophee du libre that took place in Soissons, France, on the 24th of May 2003.
License
This software is distributed under the GPL License. It's an official GNU package GNU. GCompris works on GNU/Linux, MacOSX, Windows and other Unix version.
GCompris is provided WITHOUT ANY WARANTIES. It's a free software, you are welcome to redistribute it under the term of the GPL licence.
Some screenshots
In gcompris, a special attention is made to keep the graphisms pleasant and to the user interface simplicity. While simple, gcompris is very addictive for the kids, even the smallest. The kid can discover the activities alone, but the help of a parent or teacher can be needed to help the kid go further.
You can see all the screenshots for all the activities
Minimum system requirements
gcompris runs fine on the PC 233MHz with 64MB of memory. It needs 30MB of disk space. gcompris can be used on smaller configuration by using the light client technology used with GNU/Linux (X-Terminals).
They talk about us...
- ITworld: Defeat the Windows Monopoly, Teach Your Kids Linux
- A case studyfrom a Slovak school
- Use of gcompris in a nursery school in Extremadura (Spain)
- Using gcompris in a belgium school
- Using gcompris in an Italian school. In Italy again a documentation of gcompris.
- In April 2002, an article in French has been published in Linux Magazine France.
- To know more on Ofset and gcompris : (In French) Free software from Ofset supported by the UNESCO
Other project of interest
- Childsplay has a similar approach of gcompris but it's based on the Python language and the pygame library (SDL based). It works on GNU/Linux and Windows
- The KDE Edutainment Project: high-quality educational software for the K Desktop Environment
