Hello,<br><br>I am a student at NSIT currently in my third year of undergraduate studies and have been associated with OLPC for the past one and a half months as a volunteer developer. I just want to say hello to the GSoC community and introduce a new project about an educational toolkit inspired from the needs of students all around. It all started with a small idea of providing automated tests, but has started to grow into a multi-dimensional project with comments and ideas from numerous people including recommendation from Walter himself. Let me introduce with the basic idea : <br>
<br>The educational toolkit is a software to facilitate discussion in classroom with the help of technology. It aims at providing teachers and students with a tool to pose problems, compare and discuss solutions by revolving the discussion around it in something known as Demo Mode. It can provide flash cards and other objective and subjective tests that can be used as a formal testing tool for class tests and quizzes to provide a better gauge of a student's progress to the teacher.<br>
<br>The software will be developed in Python with emphasis on easy User Interface and will aim to act like a tool which does not take over the job of teaching, but promotes natural class-room environment and will aim to fit in the classroom environment. The choice of Python as a programming language gives us the power of Object Oriented Design and Implementation along with lots of libraries and easy integration with Sugar and support for Shared Activities. You can find more details on the project at the Wiki page along with the links to technologies in use at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_toolkit" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_toolkit</a> and also find the current code-base at <a href="http://www.nsitonline.in/it/students/2005/deepank/projects.html">http://www.nsitonline.in/it/students/2005/deepank/projects.html</a><br>
<br>Although, the software is still in the planning stages with lots of feedback and ideas coming in, but, coding has started side-by-side going with the motto of "Release Early, Release Often". The current code-base is just a very minimum demo, but the work is going on at rapid pace and it will increase exponentially over the next few weeks with progress being updated every week. <br>
<br>Thanks and Regards<br>Deepank Gupta<br>