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Bingo-cards 'bingo-cards' lets you create number, word/letter, and picture bingo cards. They can be used for entertainment in the car, in a classroom (for example, to teach the element symbols for the Periodic Table), or just with your kids. You can also create cards with little pictures of everyday objects, then call the names out in Spanish, French, Italian, or German (or whatever you fancy).

Claroline Claroline is a Web-based e-Learning platform that lets users or institutions host courses administered by professors or teachers through the Web. It features a quiz generator, calendar, file manager, forums, group area, course description, and more. It is available in 12 languages: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Thai, and Chinese. The same server can host courses in different languages.

Diogenes Diogenes is a set of Perl scripts designed to search the Latin and ancient Greek texts published on CD-Rom by the Packard Humanities Institute and the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Components include a Perl module, a command-line interface, and a CGI script with an HTTP server that is capable of delivering texts as HTML, PDF or GIF (via LaTeX). You can search by regular expressions, or in the case of the TLG, via the Greek word index. There is also a browser that can search on passages by location.

DrPython DrPython is a highly customizable, simple, and clean editing environment for developing Python programs. It is intended primarily for use in schools, and is a tribute to DrScheme.

FET FET is free software (using heuristic algorithms) for automatically generating the timetable of a school, high-school or university.

Gretools Gretools is a vocabulary building tool for GNOME. It is a fun and efficient way to learn words. It uses a modified version of the word list at http://pllab.kaist.ac.kr/~gladius/gre/, which has about 4000 words. Gretools consists of a synonym quiz and a word guessing game. It also allows you to look up words. It automatically remembers the words that gave you difficulty, and lets you revise them. You can set a filter to restrict the space of words used for practice. It is particularly useful for preparing for word tests.

KLearningAid 'KLearningAid' pops up kvtml file items on the desktop. Using KWordQuiz or FlashKard, produce kvtml files and load them into Klaid. It will grab all complete n x m related items (e.g. "Question" and "Answer", or "Word A" and "Word B") and display them periodically as PopUps on the your desktop. It is like someone is sitting behind you making sure you know all the terms for your next exam or test while surfing the web, coding, or whatever.

Kana no quiz Kana no quiz is a little educational tool to memorize Japanese kana (hiragana & katakana) pronouncing in an easy fashion. This free/libre software is written in Python and is cross-platfrom (working both on Unices and Windows using different default interface). It features several ways and many options to either teach the complete beginner or test the wizard skill on kana recognition and pronoucing. Progressively, a great part of the Japanese writing (excepted Kanji) becomes phoneticaly readable to the foreign student, which is a first step into the learning of the language.

Lavengro Lavengro is a vocabulary test engine that uses text files as its tests. The user creates the tests themselves. It has a tutor mode, a test mode, and a CBT learning mode. Both versions (Lavengro in the console, Lavengro_B in the browser) have an automated installation program for GNU/Linux, but Lavengro is OS-neutral and can be used anywhere Python is supported.

LinSmith 2 'linSmith' is a Smith charting program mainly designed for educational use. As such, there is an emphasis on capabilities that improve the 'showing the effect of'-style of operation. Users can enter either discrete components or transmission lines, then see the results on screen or generate Postscript output. Component values can be changed numerically or using scrollbars. Problems can be solved on-screen, and high-quality Postscript can be output for publication.
Its features include

-Definition of multiple load impedances (at different frequencies)

-Addition of discrete (L, C and transformer) and line components (open

and closed stubs)

-Connection in series and parallel

-A 'virtual' component switches from impedance to admittance

to help understand parallel components

-Charts that work in real impedances (not normalized ones)

-Generates a 'log' file with textual results at each intermediate step

-Stores load and circuit configuration separately,

permitting several solutions without re-defining the other