This paper presents GEOMUNDI, a multilanguage tool for learning geography and cultural and social highlights from different regions and countries. It is intended for use with children between 6 and 11 years old. Although it can be easily adapted to younger and older kids, depending on the contents shown.
It cannot be denied that there are commercial software that pursues similar objectives, but we have found out that these applications do not allow data updates and/or do not consider colourful or unusual facts, that keep the small users interested. From our point of view is important that the information can be modified when the teachers requires it. This necessity can be triggered by a political change (change of name of a country or change of president, important news, …) or by the students curiosity (some children can be more interested in learning languages issues, others can be interested in folklore, others may want to learn about history or architecture or physical elements). We can, but maybe, we shouldn’t show information in the same way to kids from different ages, and GEOMUNDI let to adapt what to show and how to show depending on the final user.
GEOMUNDI allows updating, modifying, correcting and improving the information to the student’s and teacher’s needs.

The application has two parts:
1. Manager or administrator tool.
2. Learning tool.

The administrator tool is aimed to the teacher. Here, the administrator can add or remove data. The information can be a map; a file (detailing anything important about a continent, country, region, city, village, river, mountain, …); an image (folklore, physical elements, newspapers, animals, plants, …) or multimedia files. The information is stored in a database, so it can beretrieved by the learning tool.

The learning tool will be used by the children. If the kids are very young, the teacher can supervise their achievements. The information can be presented in different types of fonts and sizes. They can work in two different ways:
a) Watching information: images, videos or files about any country or region that is stored in the database. This information can be about a monument, a tradition, historical personages or whatever the docent had introduced in the database.
b) Games. Here the pupils can locate cities, rivers, mountains in a map. Another game is to show a photo and choose between the different options. For instance: ‘the Houses of Parliament are in: a) London, b) Paris, c) Prague’, or ‘the Tibet is in: a) Asia, b) Europe, c) America’. When the answer is right an encouraging sound is played. There are games such as: where is Paris?.

The application is being developed with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 and SQL Server 2005. To run the application, the computer needs:
- Adobe Reader.
- Microsoft Office 2003 (or higher).
- Windows Media Player 11 (or higher).
We have considered an open architecture with three layers: presentation layer, application layer and persistence. A facade layer has also been considered.