<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">From: Jeff Shipley <jshipley@jshipley.homelinux.net><br>To: kde-edu@kde.org<br>Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2007 4:52:39 PM<br>Subject: [kde-edu]: KAssociate (an idea)<br><br><div>I was looking for examples of educational software on google, and I ran<br>across a page on women.kde.org that lists a couple of ideas for<br>educational software (written, I believe, by annma).<br><br>One that caught my attention was a word association game. Basically, you<br>are given a word and four other words. You decide which of the other four<br>words are the closest match.<br><br>It seems like the hardest part of a
game like this would be building a<br>word association database. My first approach would be to get a list of<br>words and then give each word associated with it a weight. This would<br>take a lot of work to assemble a list, and every translation would<br>probably take almost as much work.<br><br>As for an interface, something similar to KAnagram would probably work<br>pretty good.<br><br>So what do you think? Does anybody have any ideas of resources to help<br>with a word association database? Is this something that could really<br>benefit kde-edu? I'm thinking about making it, but due to time<br>constraints I probably won't be starting soon.<br><br>--<br>Jeff<br>_______________________________________________<br>kde-edu mailing list<br>kde-edu@mail.kde.org<br><a target="_blank" href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu<br></a><br><br>Hi
Jeff,<br><br>This does sound like a good idea. Far too often I have students that are not familiar enough with the language of a subject and this would be a great way to help them build a broader vocabulary in a subject.<br><br><span>Something that I am familiar with is visuwords.com. It is flash based and links to all sort of words. For its back end it is using WordNets dictionary/database from Princeton University (<a target="_blank" href="http://wordnet.princeton.edu/">http://wordnet.princeton.edu/</a>). I'm not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for, but it could be a start.</span><br><br>Cheers,<br>Ben<br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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