=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =2D ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: puzzled students. Date: Saturday 27 July 2002 3:03 pm =46rom: anthonybaldwin To: webmaster@edu.kde.org I was just thinking of some other useful possibilities for the KDEdutainment Project: A wordsearch puzzle generator! very useful. I found one that I used last year here: http://www.adders.org that runs in windows and marginally with the use of Wine. The program is free and the gentleman who wrote it would be willing to share code, I am nearly certain. ( The same guy wrote a nice little hangman game that runs in windows. I have never been able to get KHangman up and running for missingl libs that I can not find.) A crossword puzzle generator. There are tons of these for windows and many of them are free. These are great for vocabulary units. I mean, of course, puzzles that can be printed for use in the classroom. There are apps that will create html puzzles that are forms to be filled out on-line (done with javascript I s'pose, or cgi?), too. Maybe you could make them in html so that they can be printed or posted on-line. These apps would be useful to me as a teacher for generating materials to use in the classroom more than for dirdct use in the classroom, although I did allow students last year to create puzzles for their classes on some projects so students may also be using such a product. I'm really surprised that these haven't already been done, as it seems they would be rather simple to create (probably one weekend for some of you geniuses) and are very useful in lower grades for actively engaging students in some vocabulary exercise, etc. Let me know if you attack these or the inspriation idea. Thanks, Anthony Baldwin =2D ------------------------------------------------------- =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9XC4uF8Iu1zN5WiwRAmhAAJ9tEnHSPUD8YN7+vhUCYypC+bJzKgCeMzLB Wj88dxIIvbNy14RW++b0YfY=3D =3DsUPC =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-edu-devel mailing list kde-edu-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu-devel