Monday 23 May 2011

Free Educational Software

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We all know that learning is no fun, but we spend years at school in order to achieve some information that is indispensable if we want to get a well paid job and a life like we see in movies. In order to make the learning process more attractive the companies have created series of software called educational software. First of all, you should know the advantages of using such software: educational software should be a challenge in terms of cognitive issues and be attractive to motivate users and turn them into active participants in their own learning.

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If you are either a parent or a teacher then here is some useful software. In case your kid just has learned writing you can download for him an open Office for children called OOo4Kids. This program has a funny graphic interface and few buttons. Your child could use it to write, draw or calculate for his math homework. This program supports a lot of languages, such as: Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, English, Spanish or Russian.



In addition, if you are a math teacher and you want to make the whole mathematic process easier r for your students, go ahead and download the Rekentest, free software for arithmetic issues. The best part of using this software is the fact that beside its friendly interface, it offers the possibility to set the level you consider fit for your age and performance. You can choose from a menu: Task, Values, Problems, Challenge, Practice, Length and Finish. As you can notice choose whatever operation you want to test: fraction, money or percentages. At the end of a time limit process you receive a report that states at which level you are and give you some tips of how the improve others. Maybe your child is more into Geography issues. You should help him to develop his passion with the Seterra Geography Tutor. It is offered for free online and provides a wide rage of exercises, such as: guess the countries from Europe or USA, guess the city of a certain country or the capitals from USA states. It is available only in some European languages. Furthermore, you may consider that is time for your child to learn a foreign language and you are not satisfied with the classes he takes at school. You can download for free: Byky 4 Express. The archive provides almost 60 languages and the way of using is rather simple. Select your native language and then the language you may want your word translated. You have also an option that allows you to choose a certain situation, for example: how you should speak at the hotel.



Finally, your child may have an artistic sense, so he may enjoy music. Here is free software for him: My guitar. The graphic interface is well designed and the animated way of presenting guitar lessons is really attractive. It offers 50 guitar lessons presented in many ways; you have the notes and how they should be played, then there are some video clips that show you how you should move the guitar strings. After practicing you can record yourself and save the file.

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