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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/

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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/

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