1012 projects tagged "education"
Updated 22 Oct 2007
Diogenes
| Pop | 115.41 |
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| Vit | 4.92 |
Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the Latin and ancient Greek texts published on CD-ROM by the Packard Humanities Institute and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. It comes as an easy-to-install stand-alone application for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, based on the Firefox browser (i.e. Xulrunner). Alternatively, it can be installed by a network administrator as a server on a local network, and users then access it via an ordinary Web browser. There is also a command-line tool which can optionally format output as LaTeX instead of HTML.
Updated 04 Apr 2013
Dr Geo
| Pop | 182.02 |
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| Vit | 35.52 |
Dr. Geo is an interactive geometry program that is distributed as a universal portable application. It allows one to create a geometric sketch and manipulate it according to its constraints. It is usable at home or at school, in primary or secondary education. It is simple and effective with extended features including scripting and programming.
Updated 28 Aug 2001
Duck
| Pop | 77.14 |
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| Vit | 1.85 |
Duck is Web-based system for practice testing and quizzing. Instructors can create multiple-choice, short answer, and 'extended response' questions. Unique feedback can be provided for up to 10 potential student responses. Duck is based on constructivist teaching and learning ideals.
Updated 01 Oct 2009
Ecology-HOWTO
| Pop | 86.79 |
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| Vit | 7.56 |
The Linux-Ecology-HOWTO discusses ways to make computers less harmful to our environment and to solve some ecological issues. It explains how to use Linux to save power and consumables like paper and ink. Since it does not require big hardware, Linux may be used with old computers to make their life cycle longer. Games may be used in environmental education and software is available to simulate ecological processes.
Updated 30 Jan 2001
eev.el
| Pop | 16.85 |
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| Vit | 1.77 |
Eev.el is a simple Emacs Lisp library that lets you treat portions of a text file as shell commands, chunks of code for programming languages or as hyperlinks; its intention is to let people record into plain ASCII files their interaction with the computer, and to let them edit and play back any block of code in those files easily. The hyperlinks can point to places in manpages, Info pages and text or HTML files, and they are seen as comments by all programming languages; using them you can place pointers to all relevant online sources of information inside the code.
Updated 15 Mar 2001
EnRus dictionary tools
| Pop | 122.11 |
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| Vit | 4.39 |
The EnRus dictionary tools are TCL/Tk scripts for reading a textual (plain or compressed by gzip or bzip2) dictionary base and compiling new dictionary bases from plain text files. It consists of a few TCL console scripts and a Tk interface to them. It is configurable for different languages. The dictionary base may contain proper formatting and output procedures.
Updated 31 May 2002
EText Reader
| Pop | 50.40 |
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| Vit | 3.07 |
EText Reader (ETR) is a program for reading ETexts from Project Gutenberg texts. It allows selection of font, and foreground and background colors, as well as persistant reading position and bookmarking. It supports browsing, searching, and direct downloading of Project Gutenberg ETexts. It features a built-in online dictionary for instant word definitions while reading.
Updated 30 Jan 2001
Flashcards Generator for GRE Prep
| Pop | 21.82 |
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| Vit | 1.00 |
Flashcards are a nice way to prepare for competitive exams like GRE, SAT etc. This program generates Postscript files which you can cut into pieces to create flashcards.
Updated 28 Feb 2003
gBootRoot
| Pop | 158.08 |
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| Vit | 4.19 |
gBootRoot makes the construction and development of distributions fun and simple with its Root Methods (Yard) and user-mode-linux test bed. Finish the product with a Boot Method (2-disk compression supported). Normal (non-root) users can make root filesystems and boot disks. It includes the make_debian script to create a testable user-mode-linux base Debian system, add-ons to enhance methods, and an MTD Emulator useful for running distributions made with the jffs/jffs2 filesystem.
Updated 14 Jan 2011
GCompris / I Got IT
| Pop | 373.42 |
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| Vit | 20.12 |
GCompris is an educational software suite with numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game-orientated, but nonetheless still educational. These include computer discovery (keyboard, mouse, different mouse gestures), algebra (table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image), science (the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, electric simulation), geography (place the country on the map), games (chess, memory, connect 4, oware, sudoku), reading practice, and others (learn to tell time, puzzles of famous paintings, vector drawing, cartoon making, etc.). It currently offers in excess of 100 activities, and more are being developed.
