Open Office for Kids – OOo4Kids

Nov 3rd, 2009

OSS, Professional Development, Resources, digital citizen, global project, learning object, management, one to one

I have long been a fan of Open source and for about three years I have been a user of Open Office, in fact our school has migrated from Microsoft Office and later Star Office to Open Office.

One of the problems that all of the productivity suites have is the level of complexity for the younger students. Many adult users do not come close to the full capacity of their productivity suite and students particularly in the younger years certainly wont.

So imagine my suprise when this morning Miguel Guhlin and Julie Lindsay both posted in there blogs about OOo4Kids – open Office for Kids.

This is great. Its still in Beta, but the screenshots look excellent and I have downloaded the Beta to trial.

The layout is simplified, the icons larger and clear and better suited for the younger learners. The removal of the majority of the buttons makes its more applicable (see below). I am looking forward to this coming out of Beta and into Gold.

So it suits younger users, is free, small download, is ethical (you are not pirating it). Excellent

http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page

Download – http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Download

Video demo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJkyPcP-TeU&feature=player_embedded

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OOo4Kids Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:05 am

A video presentation is now available also :
* french : http://www.vimeo.com/7323947
* italian :

The project need translators in order to produce localized versions in English, Spanish, Deutch, Portuguese. Other languages are also welcome, even if it’s a priority.

It take around one and two hours (maximum) to translate all sentences in one language. The task is easy, can be done in multiples pass and can be splitted into several people.

If you want to help go to : http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Presentations/fr/translate and update the page.

Thanks a lot to futur contributors.

Best Regards.

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