[Tuxpaint-users] Hello from Tamarind Tree, India

[Michelle <mic...@ta...>]

hello,

Greetings from India! Wanted to share our successful and regular use of 
Tux Paint with tribal (indigenous) children - all first generation 
learners at our school - Tamarind Tree in a small village in north west 
Maharashtra. (www.tamarindtree.org)

Our machines are on Ubuntu 14.4 and the Tux Paint version is 0.9.21.

We have children from ages 3-10 and are using it across these ages to 
create pictures, write words associated with a picture, make sentences, 
and learn shapes.
I am looking to share more ideas of how best we can use it for our 
teachers.

Our school is an experiment in equity and using open source tools is 
ingrained in our philosophy for a better world. I really appreciate the 
work done on Tux Paint and I am sure all you developers would be 
thrilled and happy to see underprivileged tribal children half way 
across the world using and enjoying your work. So really a big thank you 
for Tux Paint.

Look forward to getting ideas from this forum,

Regards
Michelle
Tamarind Tree school
Sogve Village, Dahanu, Maharashtra
India
www.tamarindtree.org
twitter: @tamarindtree2