Oct 23 2009
Open Office 4 Kids
Yes, Open Office 4 Kids is available now, based on OpenOffice.org’s OpenOffice suite. Sure, it’s a watered down verision for the target ages of 7 to 12 years old- but it’ll be a welcome tool for students and teachers (and parents) in search of some basic word processing and related tools. So far it looks pretty cool. I’ve got to play around with it some more, but for home and for a classroom I think it’s a great tool! Click on the image above to be taken to the download site- thanks OpenOffice.org! (Happy 9th Birthday OpenOffice.org)
One response so far
I checked it out and it’s pretty cute, but doesn’t it seem a bit superfluous? After all, we have Google Docs. Google Docs is sufficiently streamlined to prevent distraction, yet powerful enough to really push learners (I’m here talking about document collaboration). It’s not as cute as OOo, but infinitely more applicable.