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 sorted by contributors:
Beth Hadley
- Learn about farm animals, what sounds they make, and interesting facts
- Learn about world animals, interesting facts and their location on a map
- Learn about the music of the world
- Learn the names of the notes, in bass and treble clef, with the help of sounds and colors
- 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
- Learn to play melodies on the piano keyboard!
- Learn to listen to, read, and play musical rhythms
Clément Coudoin
- Geography, new asia map level
Peter Albrecht
- Use the mouse wheel to approach the rock wall an look for gold nuggets
Matilda Bernard
- To understand color mixing
- Understanding mixing of colors of light
- Introduction to the concept of gravity. Maintain the spaceship in the middle without crashing into the planets or the asteroids
- Understanding acceleration due to gravity. Pilot the spaceship towards the green landing area
- Understanding effect of mass and distance on orbital velocity
Jozef Riha
Philip Morris and Julia Wycherley
And thanks a lot to our translators
- Alexandre Franke: French translation
- Andrej Žnidaršič: Updated Slovenian translation
- Aurimas Černius: Updated Lithuanian translation
- Chris Leonard: Updated Russian translation
- Christian Kirbach: Updated German translation by Peter Albrecht
- Daniel Mustieles: Updated Spanish translation
- Dominik Granada: Updated Polish translation
- Fran Diéguez: Updated Galician translations
- Frederico Goncalves Guimaraes: Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation
- Gabor Kelemen: Updated Hungarian translation
- Gonçalo Cordeiro: Updated Galician translations
- Marek Černocký: Updated Czech translation
- Martin Srebotnjak: Updated Slovenian translation
- Matej Urbančič: Updated Slovenian translation
- Michal Kaukič: Updated slovak translation
- Piotr Drąg: Updated Polish translation
- Sasi Bhushan Boddepalli: Updated Telugu Translation
- Tirumurti Vasudevan: Updated Tamil translation
- Yannis Kaskamanidis: Updated Greek translation
- Yuri Myasoedov: Updated Russian translation
- Мирослав Николић: Updated Serbian translation