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.