If anyone has info on a decent easy to use open source educational programming tool that can be understood by weaker visual learners (eg. similar to Flowol) then let me know where it is.
If I had any idea what you were talking about here, I might be able to make better suggestions.
Flowol is a essentially a flowcharter where programs can be written to control output devices linked to your computer or by using 'mimics' which are little pictorial representations so you don't have to buy the gear. It's good stuff and the kids enjoy using it and lean a lot. IIRC it is cheap, produced by a british company that could use our support and is one of the few decent things you can use your e-learning credits for. It's not open source but big deal. For most schools cost is more of an issue than being able to modify the source code. It was written originally for the RISC OS platform and has been ported to windows. As the are a small company they may well port it to Linux if there is enough demand. It costs nothing to ask them. Darren Smith