Collaboration with KDE Education Project

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tiagoporangaba — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:55:43 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Performance Reports:

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:
- Kbruch
- Kpercentage
- Kalzium
Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KBruch is a small program to practice calculating with fractions. Therefore 4 different exercises are offered. Factorization is important while finding the main denominator of 2 fractions. Also, KBruch provides a handbook describing the different exercises and the general usage.

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

We are undergraduate students from computer science, computer information systems and design courses at Sao Paulo State University. We are interns at a research laboratory called LTIA (Applied Information Technology Lab.) which runs a lot of projects about interoperability and open source, user experience, embedded and web development.

Download KDE-Win

http://windows.kde.org/download.php

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:40:03 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Performance Reports:

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:39:27 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Attending KDE Akademy 2008
Performance Reports:

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:38:55 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Attending KDE Akademy 2008
Performance Reports:
* KDE Edu Windows - User-aspect Performance Analysis.docx
* KDE Edu Windows - User-aspect Performance Analysis .xlsx
* KDE Edu Windows - Low-level aspect Performance Analysis.docx

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:40:37 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Performance and Functional Reports at KDE Windows on OLPC XO
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:39:50 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruch and KPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Performance and Functional Reports at KDE Windows on OLPC XO
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

We are undergraduate students from computer science, computer information systems and design courses at Sao Paulo State University. We have been working on a research laboratory called LTIA (Applied Information Technology Lab.) which runs a lot of projects about interoperability and open source, user experience, embedded and web development.

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:37:49 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruchK and Percentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Performance and Functional Reports at KDE Windows on OLPC XO
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:36:56 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

KBruchKPercentage Improvements
Kalzium Improvements
Performance and Functional Reports at KDE Windows on OLPC XO
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:35:35 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

Project Results
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on these software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:34:51 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

Project Results
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on four software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Related Websites

http://www.kde.org
http://edu.kde.org
http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:34:13 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

Project Results
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on four software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:31:33 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Deliverables

Project Results
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Our Collaboration and Work

Usability and educational improvements on four software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium

Performance and Functional Tests at KDE for Windows on Educational Laptops (i.e. OLPC XO).

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

KDE Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

The Team

Updated Wiki: Home

tiagoporangaba — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:54:29 GMT

Introduction to KDE Education

Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies: students, parents, children, teachers, adults.

Key Points:

Primary focus is on schoolchildren aged 3 to 18, and the specialized user interface needs of young users.
While until now only available on Unix, BSD and Linux, still in beta but already usable, the KDE 4 series bring our applications on Windows

Our Collaboration

Usability and educational improvements on four software applications:

Kbruch
Kpercentage
Kalzium
Ksudoku

Also, testing KDE for Windows aiming to accellerate the education software applications support on Windows platforms.

Briefing of Software Applications

KBruch

KPercentage

KPercentage is a small math application that will help students to improve their skills in calculating percentages.

Kalzium

Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database.

Ksudoku

KSudoku is a logic-based symbol placement puzzle. The player has to fill a grid so that each column, row as well as each square block on the game field contains only one instance of each symbol.

KDE on Windows

The KDE on Windows Project is aimed at native porting of the KDE applications to MS Windows.

Pages

Performance Report of KDE Windows on XO OLPC with Windows XP
Attending KDE Akademy 2008

Updated Wiki: Status Report

robertocunha — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:31:05 GMT

Status Report

Schedule Overview

Key Points

As a first step the team did meetings and brainstorms to decide what to improve in all applications (Kbruch, Kpercentage, Kalzium and Ksudoku).

Black box testing were also planned for the KDE on Windows.

Kbruch: Improvements to make the application more readable and engaging. The improvements are almost full implemented. For more information about the changes, please see: KBruch - Wireframes.pdf

Also, we implemented a new educational feature, that allows the user learn about fractions sums by manipulating images. Here is a screen shot:

Kpercentage: Percentage and Fractions (the Kbruch's subject) are closely related, so we merged Kpercentage to Kbruch. This merge is an old item on the KBruch's ToDo list. Now, percentage is one of Kbruch's modalities of tasks.

Kalzium: Improvements to enable the user see more than one property at the same time (for example, electronegativity and elements families). There are more detailed informations at http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br/ead/kalzium/

Ksudoku: Make symbol themes more usable and understandable and make the 3D game play more usable allowing easier control of the camera.

Development Overview

Since begin of the project the developers got involved with coding aspects in order to understand better the environment. What’s already made or in process:

Creation of the development environment.
Know how to programming using QT and KDELibs.
Development in Kbruch. (Things we planned and didn’t changed during discussions with the community and after Akademy)

Updated Wiki: Status Report

robertocunha — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:23:19 GMT

Status Report

Schedule Overview

Key Points

As a first step the team did meetings and brainstorms to decide what to improve in all applications (Kbruch, Kpercentage, Kalzium and Ksudoku).

Black box testing were also planned for the KDE on Windows.

Kbruch: Improvements to make the application more readable and engaging. The improvements are almost full implemented. For more information about the changes, please see the link at the botton of this page (KBruch - wireframes). Also, we implemented a new educational feature, that allows the user learn about fractions sums by manipulating images. There is a screen shot at the botton of this page (KBruchlearningtool).

Kpercentage: Percentage and Fractions (the Kbruch's subject) are closely related, so we merged Kpercentage to Kbruch. This merge is an old item on the KBruch's ToDo list. Now, percentage is one of Kbruch's modalities of tasks.

Kalzium: Improvements to enable the user see more than one property at the same time (for example, electronegativity and elements families). There are more detailed informations at http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br/ead/kalzium/ .

Ksudoku: Make symbol themes more usable and understandable and make the 3D game play more usable allowing easier control of the camera.

Development Overview

Since begin of the project the developers got involved with coding aspects in order to understand better the environment. What’s already made or in process:

Creation of the development environment.
Know how to programming using QT and KDELibs.
Development in Kbruch. (Things we planned and didn’t changed during discussions with the community and after Akademy)

Updated Wiki: Status Report

robertocunha — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:17:17 GMT

Status Report

Schedule Overview

Key Points

As a first step the team did meetings and brainstorms to decide what to improve in all applications (Kbruch, Kpercentage, Kalzium and Ksudoku).

Black box testing were also planned for the KDE on Windows.

Kbruch: Improvements to make the application more readable and engaging. The improvements are full implemented and the process documentation is available on the link at the botton of this page. Also, we implemented a new educational feature, that allows the user learn about fractions sums by manipulating images. There is a screen shot at the botton of this page.

Kpercentage: Percentage and Fractions (the Kbruch's subject) are closely related, so we merged Kpercentage to Kbruch. Now, percentage is one of Kbruch's modalities of tasks.

Kalzium: Improvements to enable the user see more than one property at the same time (for example, electronegativity and elements families). There are more detailed informations at http://www.ltia.fc.unesp.br/ead/kalzium/ .

Ksudoku: Make symbol themes more usable and understandable and make the 3D game play more usable allowing easier control of the camera.

Development Overview

Since begin of the project the developers got involved with coding aspects in order to understand better the environment. What’s already made or in process:

Creation of the development environment.
Know how to programming using QT and KDELibs.
Development in Kbruch. (Things we planned and didn’t changed during discussions with the community and after Akademy)

Source code checked in, #24822

tiagoporangaba — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:50:14 GMT

kbruch wireframes

Updated Wiki: Status Report

tiagoporangaba — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:31:05 GMT

Status Report

Schedule Overview

Key Points

As a first step the team did meetings and brainstorms to decide what to improve in all applications (Kbruch, Kpercentage, Kalzium and Ksudoku).

Black box testing were also planned for the KDE on Windows.

Kbruch: Few improvements to make the application more readable and engaging. Example: Larger fonts and the possibility to only use keyboard to play. Also, one new educational feature that could be Test cases or Discs. Test cases allows users to create a set of tests and Discs to analyze the fractions and help the user to understand differences between fractions.

Examples:

Kpercentage: Few improvements to make the game more usable, like changing labels.

Kalzium: Improvements to enable direct manipulation of some information of the periodic table. Example: Ease access to eletronegativity information. Just changing a radio button on the main window.

Ksudoku: Make symbol themes more usable and understandable and make the 3D game play more usable allowing easier control of the camera.

Development Overview

Since begin of the project the developers got involved with coding aspects in order to understand better the environment. What’s already made or in process:

Creation of the development environment.
Know how to programming using QT and KDELibs.
Development in Kbruch. (Things we planned and didn’t changed during discussions with the community and after Akademy)