12.11-en

Release 12.11

The GCompris development team is happy to propose you a new version of GCompris numbered 12.11. This release includes 13 new activities, probably more than any release of GCompris so far.

GCompris is a popular high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

And when we say multi-activities, we really mean a lot. We now have 136 activities in GCompris!

I would like to give a special thanks to Gnome and Google for their support in allowing us to have two students working three months full time on GCompris last summer.

Here is a summary of the new activities:

Beth Hadley

• explore_farm_animals: Learn about farm animals, what sounds they make, and interesting facts: http://gcompris.net/en-explore_farm_animals

• explore_world_animals: Learn about world animals, interesting facts and their location on a map: http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_animals

• explore_world_music: Learn about the music of the world: http://gcompris.net/en-explore_world_music

• note_names: Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble clef, with the help of sounds and colors: http://gcompris.net/en-note_names

• piano_composition: An activity to learn how the piano keyboard works, how notes are written on a musical staff and explore music composition by loading and saving your work: http://gcompris.net/en-piano_composition

• play_piano: Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard!: http://gcompris.net/en-play_piano

• play_rhythm: Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms: http://gcompris.net/en-play_rhythm

Clément Coudoin

• geography, new asia map level.

Peter Albrecht

• New activity named mining: Use the mouse wheel to approach the rock wall an look for gold nuggets: http://gcompris.net/en-mining

Matilda Bernard

• color_mix: To understand color mixing: http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix

• color_mix_light: Understanding mixing of colors of light: http://gcompris.net/en-color_mix_light

• intro_gravity: Introduction to the concept of gravity: http://gcompris.net/en-intro_gravity

• land_safe: Understanding acceleration due to gravity: http://gcompris.net/en-land_safe

• place_your_satellite: Understanding effect of mass and distance on orbital velocity: http://gcompris.net/en-place_your_satellite