TUX PAINT GAME FOR FULL
Within a span of 10 minutes, the computer center had transformed itself from a games-playing room to a room full of creative exploration. “Can she borrow your drawing for a little while?” I asked the sixth grade boy. “I'm going to try and make the same drawing,” the fourth-grade girl said. I showed the sixth-grade student's drawing to a fourth-grade girl who was enjoying TuxPaint. Students of all ages were exploring different aspects of the program. That's when I noticed that TuxPaint was on most of the computers in our computer center. I offered to print his drawing on our color laser printer. He replied, “My teacher once asked me to draw a bunny rabbit for Easter and I drew a really excellent rabbit.” I commented, “You've got artistic talent.” This student went on to make a lovely drawing in TuxPaint. This is a boy who has spent hundreds of hours playing first-person shooting games. A few days later, a middle school boy asked how he could use TuxPaint on his computer. Older elementary school students started exploring it in our computer center. Somehow, the word about TuxPaint spread throughout our community. (TuxPaint runs on all computer platforms–Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.)
TUX PAINT GAME FOR INSTALL
Mom told me the family has a laptop, so I offered to install TuxPaint the next time they visited the library. I explained that TuxPaint was a free program and that the family could use it at home. The mom smiled back and said, “He's three.” “How old is your son?” I inquired politely. Listening to him speak, I noticed he was highly verbal, too. The child was squealing with delight as he used the various drawing tools in TuxPaint. Last week, I was really happy to see a mother sitting at a computer with her 3-year-old son, with TuxPaint up on the screen. Unfortunately, the GIMP contagion did not spread beyond the students in the class. It was a joy seeing the students continue using GIMP after the class came to an end. A few years ago our library offered a GIMP class for elementary school students. We also have the Inkscape vector drawing program and the GNU Image Manipulation Program-known as the GIMP. Our computers run three very interesting, fun, and useful graphics programs. Very few use the computer for creative graphics applications. About 90 percent of the children use the computers for games, and about 10 percent use them for doing homework. The room in which I spend most of my time has 10 computers, and elementary and middle school students stop by daily after school to use them. I work at a public library with 28 Linux stations made publicly available in four separate rooms.
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