hi in SDN Gedongkiwo Yogyakarta Also using GCompris, i think this it great job.

Hi Guys

I run an ICT training facility for Kids & Adults in Pretoria, South Africa and GCompris as added great value on top of our E-Learner/C4K curriculum.

I am a public librarian taking digital literacy to a women’s shelter. Some of the ladies have small children who want to use a computer just like Mama does. Gcompris has been a wonderful addition to the evening. The ladies are amazed at what their children can do and the children are fascinated by the games that Gcompris provides. They don’t even realize that they are learning their numbers and letters.

The software is great, teachers always ask for more apps. They find it really usefull!

Keep up the great work guys, certainly helps us to promote the use of open source software

We have been using Gcompris for a few years, and love it. We use the Windows version which is much more than worth the cost.

Nakhon Si Thammarat Primary Educational Service Area 4 (pnst4) Ampure tasala NST Prv. THAILAND 80160

Students at Saint Mary’s University - Elementary Department in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines is learning how to use computers by playing around with GCompris.

I’m a developer, a FOSS advocate, and father of a pre-school student enrolled in that school and I was happy when I learned that the school is using GCompris — which I was using to teach my kid when she was just 2 years old.

school website: elem (dot) smu (dot) edu (dot) ph

Good Day

Many thanks for these programs which we, as an NPO in KwaZulu Natal South Africa, are using where we install computer equipment in disadvantaged Junior Primary schools in the rural districts.

The introduction of these programs has given the children a great deal of excitement with the result that the teachers tell us that the lessons in class are more exciting because the children relate the lessons with those on the computer and many time there is a lot of discussion etc about how the children "work" on the "commputa" The teachers now request that they too should come for the lessons because they feel the kids are racing ahead with technology of which they, the teachers, have no clue.

Once again many thanks.

from the CEO of KwaZulu Natal Center for Development and Support of Vulnerable Children and Orphans

Hola Bruno:

Estamos usando este programa en una Asociación de niños Down en Marruecos. Gracias por tu trabajo.

César A. Director de Proyectos de Informática.

Dear Bruno

My 8 year old daughter was playing around in some drawing program some weeks ago. If she don’t ask, I don’t interfere. But this time she gave up and asked "what is this?". After a short look it seems like an electric simulation tool of some kind. To my surprice - it was a sumlation tool. In Gcompris? Strange?

So we made some simulations and I explained how they worked. The screenshots can be found on the URL below. Feel free to use.

A few days ago I disassembled an electric torch and demonstrated that it was exactly the same as in Gcompris. She did not say much but was very interested and I could see that she was thinking about it. A real break through.

And yes, we use Gcompris in school. My children is in homeschool and Gcompris is a part of there education.

And we are looking forward to the next component: The capacitor ;-)

Actually my post is not using gcompris at one particular school, but at many

I and my wife have just set up an ict NGO in Ghana

we installed gcompris onto Zenwalk linux our distro of choice. At first we will be visiting schools to introduce linux and gcompris- its a great suite of educational software. later we hope to build our own complex. I have done a quick revenue of childrens software at the link below

Hello,

I have two pre-school nurseries using Gcompris on Ubuntu 9.4 with Userful’s desktop multiplier. Each site has just the one computer yet two children can use the pc at the same time.

At The Shri Ram School, NCR, India, we have been using Edubuntu in our Computer Labs for the last 2 years. GCompris forms an integral part of the curriculum for the younger children who thoroughly enjoy using it and are hugely benefiting from this software.

Many thanks to all behind this project.

Braeburn Primary School, Nairobi we use GCompris and are 100% OpenSource using Ubuntu as our operating system. Great software and love Linux - so do the children.

Our nursery uses GCompris as a supporting tool for educational activities across different age groups. Children really enjoy using it and teachers find it easier to use and explain.

GCompris is a clear example of how often open source software exceeds commercial offerings - Thank you!

We are Groote Schuur Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa. We have been using GCompris happily since 2003!! We use Ubuntu (Edubuntu) and LTSP. 28 users.

We use GCompris at multiple schools across all age groups, between 3 - 11 years old. The activities are very useful and engaging, and have really improved the overall learning of the students over the course of a year. It helps pre-schoolers with basic mouse skills, kindergartners with counting and logic, early grade school with math and basic typing, and older students with problem solving and math skills. It has undoubtedly become the favorite educational program of the students of all age groups.

The Susquehanna Valley Christian School is now using GCompris as their main computer learning skills for the Preschool (3-5 yr olds) kids. Thank you Bruno for the great work you are producing for our future generations to come.

Sincerely yours,

SVCS Preschool Staff and Parents, Selinsgrove, PA

Our school is a Pre-K - 5 parochial institution. When introducing our 5-year old students to computers, we use this outstanding tool to teach the basics of operating a mouse. It’s just what we were looking for. Simple, fun, stimulates their interest and keeps them focused.

R. Barnes IT Coordinator

In our school we teaching mental handicapped children. This program is very suitable for them, and they like it very much. Thanks for creating it!

In our shchool we teaching mental handicapped children. This program is very suitable for them, and they like it very much. Thanks for creating it!

Kia orana from the Cook Islands.

many of the Schools are using this excellent program and are asking for more programs to load on to the server for students to access

At the Waits River Valley School in Vermont, USA, we have a K12LTSP installation that supports pods of two to five computers in classrooms. Our Kindergarten students take turns using GCompris in their classroom during choice time. They liked GCompris so much that they asked to have it installed in our M$ Windows computer lab so the whole class could use it at the same time.

I’ve installed an Edubuntu system at a local church that sponsors an after-school help program for students for all grades. The kids immediately understood how to use the software and really enjoyed the games. Being allowed to play the G-Compris games is now considered a "Reward" that the students look forward to at the end of their regular lessons

Investigator College Christian School - Victor Harbor Australia. I am a volunteer at the school and have installed GCompris on 1 computer in a class that has a number of children requiring extra help with many basic numeracy and literacy problems.

It is very early days but I already have had huge encouragement from the staff at the school.

I would love to see a Data Base of all programs that are currently available for GCompris with a brief outline of what the program does and what type of student it could benefit. (I am thinking special needs mainly). e.g. Mouse skills program - brilliant for teaching children who have severe problems physically moving the mouse around (e.g. Cerebral Palsy child).

I would be will to start compiling such a data base but am not sure where would be the best/most appropriate place to put it - any ideas please.

St Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School is an independent school located in Watertown, Massachusetts (5 kilometers west of Boston). Our students range from Kindergarten through 5th grade. We recently converted our computer lab from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux, and GCompris is part of our new suite of educational software. It is becoming very popular with our students, especially the youngest ones. There are so many choices available that it will take us a while to explore all of the menus.

The Mall School, Twickenham, England. GCompris is a fantastic resource. I love the new animation element. Well done to all those involved in creating this software.

Foundations Christian Academy in Davie, Florida (United States) is using GCompris on Edubuntu with LTSP. What a great program with flexibility for a span of ages.

Monterrico Christian School in Lima, Peru is using gcompris for the elementary computer education program! It’s wonderful.

Thank you, Chad

School District 73 has installed GCompris in all of our elementary Schools.

See:

Ridgecrest Charter School

GCompris is a benefit to schools with minimum funding. It gives a wonderful tool for teaching younger children basic tech and educational learning skills. Anyone who has investigated other software will know that other programs are large investments. This program invest in the children rather than software distributors.

Fortune Kindergarten in Shanghai China is using in 7 of its 9 classes (http://www.fkis.com.cn/). We had some old DOS games and this year we wanted to upgrade . We installed Xubuntu Linux and ran GCompris to the childrens’ delight. Thank you very much!

GCompris is a software tool of the "Education National Project" focused in increasing and maximizing the computer skills in our childrens from 4 to 10 years old.

This National Project has beed developed to get a competitive country about industry and technology.

Our program is using all the benefits of an well designed "Open Source" software strategy . This strategy aims to train all of our childres and make them possibles to desing their owns software solutions about what they want to be (career); this "all that they want to do" is about industry process as aeronautic, automotive, shipping, agricultural technification....

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED HELPING THIS PROJECT, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT alev_el@yahoo.com.

Many Thantks to all...

Alejandro Velasco.

Thanks to community donations of old hardware and volunteers who refurbish them, GCompris now run on a variety of computers placed with disadvantaged families via our local community center www.kroccenter.org here in San Diego, CA. We’ve also placed GCompris-enabled computers with some local pediatric clinics like www.fhcsd.org and have donated a few stations to some local elementary schools as well. Kids who have never used a computer before "get right to it" when working with GCompris—it’s really the only program they need to get started. My only complaint is that GCompris is a very difficult and esoteric name. Like most open source / Linux software, I think GCompris would benefit from a new, easier to remember, simpler, and more meaningful name.

Scott Bass / San Diego, CA

We are using it as part of K12LTSP. In some of the lower grade classrooms, almost all the monitors are showing GCompris. Thank you very much for creating OSS educational software. It’s making a difference in children’s lives.

We find this activities really educational and integrated with curriculums in different areas.

We will keep using it for long.

Well done!

We have recently downloaded windows version of the software. We are planning to use it at our center for autistic children. We are hopeful that it will be an excellent and effective learning tool for our children. We want to congratulate the developers for the wonderful work they have done for kids worldwide. We shall report our experience after running the program for sometime.

Ressu Comprehensive School in Helsinki, Finland is using GCompris on the 1st grade. We use Edubuntu and I really like GCompris, even though it is not the latest version.

Mr Lewman Grade 1 teacher

I would like to thank you of creating GCompris. Already 6-year old pre-school classes using it and they like it very much. Also older pupils are excited about it. We using Edubuntu 5.10 currently and hopefully will v7.0.2 of GCompris upgraded in next Edubuntu version to the latest version v7.2.

Dear developers,

In my email I want to describe a little our use of GCompris for rehabilitation purposes in a neurological hospital. I am working as psychologist in a neurological clinic in Eastern Austria. Our daily work is the diagnosis and the therapy of mental (cognitive) abilities of patients with illness affecting the brain. Patients with neurological brain lesions or pathologies attaining the brain need special therapy and training to preserve their cognitive faculties. Often these patients develop deficits in attention and / or memory abilities and other problems. Depending of the location of the brain lesion the patients sometimes show difficulties in verbal abilities like reading and writing (spelling) or also calculations but also in nonverbal abilities like perception of forms, construction abilities and so on. Neuropsychological testing should diagnose these difficulties and help to conceive the training. Many patients with neurological complaints are of advanced age. Often they have little or no experience with computers. Therefore the mouse training of GCompris is a good starting point for computer aided cognitive training. In this way they learn that the access to the training is very easy. I personally don’t know any other mouse training as attractive and appealing as the one in gcompris. In most cases the word "computer" evokes the fear that the material will be too complex. As we have a big trackball as second input device (beside an ordinary computer mouse) the demands on any faculties of the patients can be set very low. The intrinsic motivation of this easily achievable success is very important in the rehabilitation process. In this way patients often develop the plan to continue the training at home which is an important aim for the therapist, too. For cognitive rehabilitation this is probably more important than the actual training effect during the stationary time in the hospital due to too few therapeutic sessions possible in daily clinical routine. As GCompris is available for the windows platform it is not a problem to get it for any computer at home, too. Relatives can help the patient to aquire the software and prepare their own computers for it. Up to now I have very good experience with the money calculation game for patients with Dyscalculia. In this way there is a training of practical needs near to their actual daily activity requirements. The same is valid for the training of reading and adjusting the clock. One of my patients continued this training at home for many month. We also use the card memory board game and the train memory game as attractive memory training for partially the verbal and the nonverbal modality. Sometimes Word spelling activities are very useful too for dysphasic patients who have problems to speak / read / write. I am very looking forward to the acoustic memory tasks of the future versions of gcompris. Neuropsychological training usually concentrates very much on the visual sense. There is a gap to other therapeutical directions of verbal and hearing faculties. An acoustic memory game could be a ground breaking inspiration for other forms of training in Neuropsychology. I hope to see it soon in gentoo portage for our training computer. Maybe more of my professional colleagues will be interested in this use of GCompris in the future. It would be for the benefit of many people. I cannot thank you enough for this great work. Your product actually has helped many people I have seen.

best regards Markus Klein

Battle Creek Christian School in Battle Creek Michigan is using gcompris! Thank you.

The software is great, teachers always ask for more apps. They find it really usefull!

Keep up the great work guys, certainly helps us to promote the use of open source software in South African schools.