Edutainment Game, Good Game

Celestia, 3D Edutainment Free Space Simulation Software

This Software, Celestia, doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in this software is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

This Software is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.

You can download Celestia here :

1. Celestia for Windows



2. Celestia for Linux

Source : http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

Magellan's PlayWorld, Edutainment Place of Kidzworld Philippines

Get ready for an exhilirating journey with world geography at the Magellan's PlayWorld. This area will soon ground break.

Taj Mahal

This enchanting setting of 7 continents features the Asian Fishing Village, St. Peter's Dome Wading Pool, Sidney's Opera House Carousel, South American Big Foot Rally Racing and more.

Learn a language or two as you walk thru the interactive doll houses in the International Doll House Village show casing the French Chateau, Spanish Villa, Victorian Mansion and Indian teepee.

Sydney's Opera House

Brush up in geography as you navigate your way out of the African Safari Maze and be amazed at the topiary of wild animals, pyramid and Moroccan structures.

Source : www.kidzworldgoodepeople.com

Edubuntu, an Edutainment Operating System

Edubuntu is an educational operating system that is a part of the Ubuntu family. It aims to make Ubuntu, the popular Linux-based operating system, a great choice for the computing needs of children, students, parents, teachers, and schools. It brings many of the best educational open-source applications and tools to the Ubuntu operating system.

"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Edubuntu seeks to bring the freedoms and spirit of Ubuntu to children, parents, students, teachers, and schools.

The Goals of Edubuntu are :

1. Kids : Pre-school aged children should have educational and fun games.
2. Students : Students, K-12 and beyond, should have the best open-source educational software available.
3. Teachers : The tools teachers need to manage their classroom should be easily installed and usable with minimal fuss.
4. Schools : Powerful and cost-effective education platforms for schools bring education into the 21st century.

Edubuntu distributes its enhancements through two means:

• Edubuntu DVD - the Edubuntu DVD contains software fully supported by the Edubuntu community. The DVD includes graphical and text-based installers, LTSP server installation, and the option to run the Edubuntu desktop directly from the DVD before making any changes to your computer.
• Application Bundles - the Edubuntu application bundles let you easily download groups of educational software from the official Ubuntu software repositories.

You can download Edubuntu here :

1. Edubuntu 32 bit
2. Edubuntu 64 bit

Source : http://edubuntu.org/

EverYthiNg - Guitar Lesson (Tomi Paldanius)

DNS Nawala, Keep Children on Track

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk launched a new Domain Name System (DNS) called NAWALA.

NAWALA is a free service used by Internet users who need the negative content filters. NAWALA will block specific types of negative content that is not in accordance with legislation, values and social norms, customs and morals of Indonesia such as pornography and gambling. In addition, NAWALA will also block Internet sites that contain harmful content such as malware, phishing sites (misdirection) and the like.

Protection of users, particularly children become the main concern of NAWALA. With this service can be expected to the Internet a safer place and comfortable to be used optimally by the Indonesian community to accelerate progress and prosperity.

This service from the beginning designed to receive input directly from the Internet community and the General Society of the service users. This input is reviewed by the NAWALA Team to determine whether a site worthy of a filter or not.

To use NAWALA, we need to change IP addres of DNS on computer / DHCP server / router modem / router to 180.131.144.144 (primary) and 180.131.145.145 (secondary) .

As a CSR program of PT Telkom Indonesia, NAWALA is appreciated positively by Minister of Communication and Information of Indonesia Tifatul Sembiring. "People wiil feel safe using the Internet, especially parents who worry about Internet content that is not positive and educational," Minister said.

DNS NAWALA surely can help the Indonesian government to establish morals Internet community in Indonesia.

Source: http://nawala.org/

More Than Words, Guitar Lesson

How to Reduce Newborn Morbidity and Mortality

We should thanks to people who work in WHO Making Pregnancy safer (MPS) Department for what they have done around the world to reduce maternal, perinatal, and newborn morbidity and mortality.

MPS's vision is a world in which skilled care at every birth is ensured for all women and in which mothers and their newborn babies notwithstanding their social, cultural, ethnic or religious background are assured access to comprehensive quality health services throughout all phases of their lives.

Every day, 1500 women and over 10 000 newborn babies die owing to complications in pregnancy and childbirth. 98% of these deaths occur in the developing world. Most of them could be prevented through skilled care during childbirth and the management of life-threatening complications.

MPS, with over 120 staff worldwide aims to reduce maternal, perinatal and newborn morbidity and mortality. MPS is working towards attaining the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 by accelerating the countries' implementation of essential interventions to make pregnancy safer. In partnership with key stakeholders, MPS also supports country efforts to strengthen their health systems.

To this end, MPS focuses on four strategic areas, in cooperation with regions and countries:

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  Advocacy: Building a conducive social, political and economic environment to support timely country actions;


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  Technical country support: Responding to country needs and providing technical support to achieve universal coverage of essential interventions that will ensure skilled care at every birth within the context of a continuum of care;


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  Partnership: Building effective partnerships across relevant programmes and partners for coordinated actions in countries;


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  Monitoring and evaluation: Strengthening assessment, monitoring and evaluation for better decision-making by policy-makers and planners in countries.
  Pregnancy is special. MPS is helping to make it safer.

Midwifery Education Modules
The six modules aim to help skilled practitioners think critically and make effective decisions on the basis of solid knowledge and understanding of these complications. When using the modules for basic midwifery programmes, it is understood that students should already be competent in most of the basic skills such as measuring blood pressure, performing a vaginal examination, conducting a normal delivery and prevention of infection.

The modules were released in 1996 and have now been updated in line with recent evidence and the WHO clinical guidelines. Each module can be taught independently of the other modules. It is however advisable to work through all of them.

Click Here for Download the Modules

Source : www.who.int

Edutainment for Adults, Solar Power Roadshow

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Viper - the Anti-plagiarism Scanner Software

The publisher said that this anti-plagiarism software is used by teachers, lecturers and students worldwide to detect instances of plagiarism in academic work, such as essays, dissertations and pieces of coursework. Are you a student? Use the software to find out: if you've missed a reference, or incorrectly cited a sentence; if you've mixed notes from a book or journal in with your own; if you've plagiarized, even accidentally, a piece of your own work. Are you a teacher/lecturer? Use the software to find out if a student has: cheated by plagiarizing off the Internet; plagiarized a piece of their own work; copied work off of a friend, or other pupil. Can you afford not to use our free plagiarism scanner? Now you can select a writer to proofread, edit or grade your essay from within Viper, directly. (source: www.download.com)

Click Here for Download

KIDZANIA, an Edutainment Place Where Kidz Wanna Go

KIDZANIA is a unique EDUTAINMENT CENTER for children between 4 to 16 years oldand their parents.
It is a kid-sized replica of a real city, with streets, buildings, retail and different vehicles going around the City.

KIDZANIA is divided into three main areas: Airport, the entrance area where children board the plane to KIDZANIA; City Central, filled with abundant commercial activities; and Suburbs, an area where all of the factories are located.

There are more than 100 role play activities that children can choose from, with a variety of scenarios and technologies to make the situation as real as possible.

Here, children play adult roles and they learn how to be a doctor, a pilot, a construction worker, a private detective, an archeologist, an F1 driver and over 100 otherPROFESSIONS and OCCUPATIONS.

There is a replica of the most representative buildings in a city such as Hospital, Supermarket, Beauty Salon, Theatre, Industrial sites, and many more.

KIDZANIA is a SAFE, INTERACTIVE and HIGHLY EDUCATIONAL center where kids wear the uniform and perform the role they are playing. Led by our Zupervisor, they learn the complexities of the adult world, and learn the value of money, just as in real life.

In KIDZANIA, kids use our official currency KIDZOS. Here, children learn to appreciate the value of money, by performing over 100 professions and occupations and earn a salary. Their salaries earned, can then be used to buy goods and services available in KIDZANIA

Economy

KIDZANIA has it’s own economy, ‘Kidzo’ is the legal currency.
Each time you visit KIDZANIA, you will receive a 50 kidzos check. Once inside, you must go to the bank, cash your check and use your money to buy goods and services such as: rent car, get a hair-do at the beauty salon, or shop at KIDZANIA Department Store, for instance.

Kidzos are not for sale with real money, if you spend all your kidzos or if you want to earn more, you must get a job and work to provide a product or service such as firefighter, dentist, hairdresser, or construction worker, or choose among many different professions.

At every pavilions or activity you may spend or earn kidzos. For example: at the Fire Station you can earn money, while at the KIDZANIA Department Store you can spend them. However, there are lots of establishments where you can do both of things, at the Hospital, for instance, you can be a doctor and earn money or be a patient and pay to get medical attention.

Consumer goods and product prices are different depending of the pavilion or the activity and they can change depending on the popularity of the activity compared with others.

If you want to save Kidzos and manage your credit balance, you can open a savings account at the bank.

There are more than 100 role play activities that children can choose from, with a variety of scenarios and technologies to make the situation as real as possible.

KIDZANIA now is available in several city around the world. The cities are Mexico City, Monterrey, Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul, Lisbon, Dubai, Koshien, Santiago, and Santa Fe.

In Jakarta, KIDZANIA is an indoor facility, located in 6th floor of Pacific Place Shopping Mall, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav 52-53, SCBD Complex, Jakarta 12910

Source : http://www.kidzania.co.id/