3. KGeography is a Free and open source
educational software game that tests
students geographical knowledge. It
forms part of KDE SC 4. Current version
ships with KDE Education Project 4.4.2 .
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4. Learning
It allows you to learn about the political
divisions of some countries (divisions,
capitals of those divisions and their
associated flags if there are some).
Browse the maps clicking in a map
division to see its name. Every nation's
flag and capital will be shown as well.
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5. Quick Start To KGeography
When you run KGeography for the first
time, it first asks you to choose a map to
start with.
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6. And KGeography main window appears
with the map of Canada:
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7. You can then
choose what type
of learning or testing
you want to do by
looking at the menu
on the left:
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8. Explore Map: a click on an area of the
map will display information about that
area, if you click on the small info icon on
the popmap, it will open the wikipedia
page for that division in the system's
default browser:
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9. Location of Provinces or Territories: you
are first asked how many questions you
want .
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10. When you finish
all the questions,
a result dialog is
shown with your
correct and
uncorrect
answers:
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11. Usage Modes
Besides for educational purposes,
KGeography can be used for evaluating
ones knowledge. Right now it has five
games:
• The game tells you a map
division name and you have to
click on it .
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12. • The game tells you a capital and
you have to guess the division it
belongs to .
• The game tells you a division and
you have to guess its capital .
• The game shows you a map
division flag and you have to
guess its name .
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13. • The game tells you a map
division name and you have to
guess its flag
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18. Self Links
KGeography in OpenSoft.sch.gr (Greek)
KGeography in kde-apps.org
KGeography in ABC Linuxu (Czech)
KGeography in SkoleLinux.de (Deutsch)
KGeography in Linux App Finder
KGeography in So.Di.Linux (Italian)
KGeography in FreshMeat
KGeography in BerliOS
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