EcrireEnPictos to practice french spoken and written

We developped EcrireEnPictos for people with special needs who meets difficulties to learn reading and writing. We need some features and a lot of preferences to adapt the exercices to the capacities of users.

WriteEnPictos uses a free library of pictograms and offers tools to explore, enrich, produce sentences and play with words, sounds and images. Although it uses pictograms, it is not reserved for specialized teaching and is useful for novice readers.

WriteEnPictos is open. The index of the collection allows to have several titles for the same pictogram and several pictograms for the same title.

An editor allows you to modify the list of titles for a pictogram, to create a new one from an image and to delete it. A register of registrants keeps the contents and their treatment modalities for each of them in the activities.

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Dissect an Animal Without Harming It

Over 20 years ago, Stu of Duncan Software, wrote Dry Labs Plus. It provides a highly realistic simulation of the dissection of a number of animals including a fetal pig, a frog, a rat, a perch, a crayfish, and an earthworm. It has been used to educate many students and saved the lives of countless small animals.

Dry Lab Plus in action

Stu has continually refreshed Dry Lab Plus over those 20 years and authored various versions of it in different tools including Toolbox, Authorware, Director and Flash.

The latest version has been, to quote Stu, 'happily' re-written using LiveCode. It runs on OS X and Windows.

You can find out much more about it at Duncan Software.

Rewrite a Multimedia Game

Tom Bodine of the eponymously named Bodine Training Games LLC used LiveCode for a complete rewrite of the company's multimedia game show template, Game Show Presenter. The quiz software is used by teachers and trainers to add interactive fun to reviews and learning.

According to Tom, "The rewrite of Game Show Presenter in LiveCode only took about a quarter of the time needed to originally develop the product."

Find out more.

Develop an interactive electronic textbook

Devin Asay has been teaching introductory programming to college students using LiveCode for over ten years. There was no textbook available, and he felt that static web pages were ineffective, so he created an interactive "electronic textbook", in LiveCode of course, for his students that teaches the fundamentals of programming and the LiveCode environment. It features interactive examples in each lesson, self-scoring quizzes to check comprehension, downloadable example stacks, an assignment download and upload feature, user progress tracking, and more. Students love this innovative learning tool, and teachers love the way it helps them give feedback and track students' progress.

Teach the fundamentals of electronics

Basic Electronics Stage 1 was written by Geoff and Dave Probert in LiveCode for both iPads and Androids. 

It aims to teach the fundamentals of electricity and electronics to anyone starting on the exciting path to Technology. It is just the first in a series of apps to be written over the next couple of years.  In fact Stage 2 is currently in preparation, targeted for release in June.

The texts are written in English and in Thai, with simple switching between the two languages.

Find out more.

Teaching Law

David Johnson has been using LiveCode to develop legal learning games for use by law students at New York Law School.

Teach calculus

A now retired City Colleges of Chicago Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, A. N. DiVito, Ph.D, developed PointPlots in LiveCode. It's a pedagogical program for teaching pre-calculus through Calculus II mathematics (polygons, relations, functions, curve sketching, inverse function theory, polar coordinates, parametric equations, secant and tangent lines, Taylor Series, arbitrary and regular Riemann Sums, etc.).

Learn by developing an advanced calculator

This is advanced calculator was created in LiveCode by a 16 year old boy student of Cyril Prusko at Eleanor Roosevelt High School. It has an on/off switch, paper tape and advanced features. 

Map Peptides

Professor Rob Beynon, a Royal Society Industrial Fellow, who works at the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool regularly turns to LiveCode. He mostly uses it to hack small, local solutions to process large datasets. He also write useful tools for his research group including the very simple*, yet useful, Peptide Mapper in LiveCode. It uses some biological data to create an SVG visualisation. 

Learn more.

* Very simple in his terms, nowhere near simple to me.

Learn Japanese verbs

A while ago, Alan Stenhouse made a series of apps for learning the many forms of Japanese verbs in LiveCode*. They followed a new learning method created by Paul Knight, a professor of Japanese in New Zealand. The apps provide a number of exercises which can be followed, including audio playback, saving for revision and random ordering, as well as a dictionary and articles illustrating some interesting aspect of Japanese life and culture.

* Alan originally developed the Apps with Hypercard and found it very easy to keep them alive by moving them to LiveCode.

Teach maths to young kids

Scott Rossi used LiveCode to build the interface and tools for Math Gadget. It teaches maths concepts to elementary (primary) school kids.

Learn by organising your browsing

A student of Cyril Prusko at Eleanor Roosevelt High School wanted to easily access his favourite websites. He built this little app in LiveCode so that with a single click the website would be automatically opened in his browser.

Develop the World's largest signing dictionary ... a video dictionary at that!

Tiemo Hollmann from Verlag Karin Kestner OHG developed the World's largest sign language dictionary.  It includes a massive 18,000 German words and 18,000 German sign language videos. Easy to access, fast to find, sophisticated to play in slow motion, and handy to print a sign picture.

German speakers can learn more.

Learn by programming games

Save the bird was written by a 13 year old girl student of Cyril Prusko at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in LiveCode.  It's a cute 3 level game to fly a bird to the finish, collecting cherries for points. You never die, you just get sent back to the start. It took her about 4 weeks. During that period, she also wrote a maze game, an educational game and a few other programs.

Another of Cyril's girl students wrote a spacecraft game. The objective of the game is to collect stars whilst avoiding moving objects. Her original game was a Dr Who game where you flew the Tardis through space. She changed it to a rocket.

Build a correlation coefficient tutorial

Ronald Zeller built this interactive app in LiveCode so that his students could explore correlation coefficients. It illustrates sample positive, negative and neutral correlations.  When the students select various functions it displays the statistics contributing to the correlation values and a plot of the various data sets with a best-fit line.   Students can drag data points to new locations on the chart and then recalculate the values to observe the effect.  They can also create a new data set of their own and then calculate and plot that data to further explore the principles.  When they are ready they can take an exit quiz which submits performance data via a server-based SQL database. 

Note: The plot points appear larger than normal to allow selecting and dragging on an iPad.

Help a disabled person study Latin

Mac Bennett used LiveCode to write "Latin Scansion Tools" for a disabled Latin student who has difficulty using a pen or pencil. It allows the user to place scansion symbols anywhere on the page, and outputs a pdf file to print or give to the teacher.  

The poems can be easily imported into the app by simply pasting text or an image (jpg  file).

Simulate a lift (elevator)

Graham Samuel used LiveCode to write a simple simulator of a lift (elevator) in a department store as part of project for showing UK school children how simple computing devices are used for sequencing and interaction. The user (a pupil) can 'program' the lift to stop at particular floors, make announcements etc. The program provides 'passengers' with randomised intentions for getting in and out of the lift. If the sequencing is wrong, passengers can be left behind or trapped in the lift - they even make grumbling noises when things go wrong!

Help children learn to read

Chris Sheffield, with a little help from Scott Rossi, used LiveCode to develop One Minute Reader for Read Naturally, Inc.. It's an iPad app that provides learners a structured reading programme that applies research-based principles to keep them on track. Its engaging content helps them develop reading fluency, enhances their vocabulary and promotes comprehension.

Read all about One Minute Reader.

Simplify geographical mapping

Map Grabber was written in LiveCode by Graham Samuel as an add-on to an existing simplified Geographical Information System (GIS) which runs on PCs and is designed to introduce school children to geographical mapping. Map Grabber allows the user (a pupil or a teacher) to download a very large map from a public database, and to select a smaller 'tile' of the map interactively. The tile is selected from a miniaturised version of the original large map, and then passed in its original resolution to the GIS program. Map Grabber is deliberately designed to be easy to use.

Build a set of educational tools

Ludovic Thébault used LiveCode to build and then pull together a compendium of educational apps. It covers learning letters, the keyboard, mathematical operations, conjugating verbs and much more.