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Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Fwd: puzzled students.
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-08-15 22:41:50
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Subject: puzzled students.
Date: Saturday 27 July 2002 3:03 pm
From: anthonybaldwin <anthonybaldwin@snet.net>
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

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