Resources

Teaching Materials

Our goal is to share available resources between educators so materials can be reused, translated, and adapted to educators' own needs. The following materials around Ada & Zangemann are currently known to us:

The French Ministry of Education created a portal about Ada & Zangemann. The portal includes teaching resources, including an online comic-book creation application, an online version of the book in different languages, the movie and audiobooks in different languages, slides for reading at school, a board game, multilingual PDFs of the book, and more.
The Austrian Ministry of Education created an online course which includes interactive activities, discussion guides, and traditional exercises. It presents complex topics such as monopolies, lobbying, the digital divide, software freedom, digital autonomy, the Internet of Things (IoT), and electronic waste in a child-friendly way as part of an engaging storyline.
One teacher started asking their pupils to write letters to Zangemann. We have published some of the letters to Zangemann for which we have permission. If you do similar exercises, we would love to hear from you, and we will ensure Zangemann gets the letters.
For younger children, we offer drawing templates.

Bookmarks, Stickers, ...

As information material, we provide some "Ada & Zangemann" stickers, bookmarks, and postcards with the illustrations. You can order them at no cost on our information material page. In our merchandise shop, you can also get other materials such as Ada & Zangemann tattoos.

A die-cut sticker of Zangemann protagonist in the children's book Ada and Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream.

A die-cut sticker of Ada protagonist in the children's book Ada and Zangemann - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream.

Reading Slides

We also offer the presentation PDF slides which together with the text with markers for when to turn the slides, can be used for book readings.

Source Materials

In the Git repository you can find all the available sources and additional material for the illustrated book and the movie "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards and Raspberry Ice Cream". For example if you need illustrations from the book, you can check this directory, which contains the illustrations, including the drawn titles and drawn capitals. All are licensed under the same Creative Commons licence used by Wikipedia.

Wallpapers

16:9 illustration from the book, also available in 3:2.

"Ada & Zangemann" by David Revoy, based on " Ada & Zangemann" written by Matthias Kirschner and illustrated by Sandra Brandstätter − CC-BY-SA 4.0. All the files, including the sources, are available on David Revoy's website who created it with the Free Software Krita.

Mailing List for Educators

We maintain a mailing list of educators who exchange resources and ideas on how to use Ada & Zangemann in teaching. Our goal is for more resources to be shared in the future. If you are an educator and would like to get in touch with others who use and create materials above, you can reach out to us via contact@fsfe.org telling us about your background and your interest to join the group.