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.

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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.