Learn KGeography

Introduction

ICT Competency

Subject-wise resource creation tools.

Educational application and relevance

Atlas is an essential resource for a Geography teacher. An atlas is required to learn political geography as well as physical geography. K Geography is a digital atlas that provides maps of continents, countries and states (political geography). Simple quizzes are available in K Geography to test understanding / memory of different regions.

Version

K Geography Version 0.8.2

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements. It is available as a part of Ubuntu custom distribution.

Overview of Features

1. K Geography is an virtual atlas, it has many digital maps of different political regions in the Earth, such as continents, countries, states.
2. Another feature of KGeography is the possibility of zoom on a map. You can click the Zoom button and then draw a rectangle to zoom in a part of the map. While in zoom mode, you can press right mouse button to go back to the original map size (the Original Size action has the same effect). Use the scroll bars, the arrow keys or the mouse wheel to move around the zoomed map or use the Move action that will allow you to drag the map using left mouse button. The Automatic Zoom feature will make the map as big as possible.

Other similar applications

1. Other free digital atlas applications include Marble (physical geograpy_
2. Non free digital atlas includes https://www.google.com/earth (Google), Bhuvan http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/bhuvan_links.php (ISRO).

Development and community help

1. User manual for K Geography is available on https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdeedu/kgeography/index.html
2. Community forum could not be located

Working with the application

Functionalities

K Geography is part of the Ubuntu distribution. This can be opened from Applications → Education → K Geography.

Step 1 - When you open KGeography, you will see the last map that was opened. The map above is the map of Africa continent.	Step 2 - To explore places, Click on "Open Map". Here Here we choose Andhra Pradesh. You can filter the map list using Filter Maps text field. Just enter a few first letters of the map name to narrow down the list to a few matches. You will see an old / obsolete map of undivided Andhra Pradesh. (Since K Geography is a free software, the partition of Andhra Pradesh, as well as the creation of new districts in Telangana can be submitted by anybody and the software community managing this application will make the change, following a due process.
Step 1 - You can then choose what type of learning or testing you want to do by looking at the menu on the left.	Step 2 - K Geography has a set of quiz questions, to test your knowledge of places. In the image, the ‘Place district in the map’ quiz is chosen. You need to place the district map within the state map. you will first asked how many questions you want. Then you will asked to click on a specific districts. The cursor takes the shape of a districts and you have to place it in the map. The results will display when the test is finished

Saving the file

K Geography does not have its own file format, which you can create, edit and save. However you can create image files of the maps you are working on, by using the screenshot application.

Export and publishing files

You can create an image file from K Geography through the using the screen shot application.

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Steps
From Terminal	Steps
From the web	Steps
Web based registration	Steps

The application on mobiles and tablets

K Geography is not available on mobiles and tablets. There are apps available for Android, for physical and political geography of the Earth

Ideas for resource creation

You can use the quiz’s in K Geography.

References

Wikipedia