school called Early Learning Toolkit. It's very simple and has teacher
controls hidden away from the student interface. It's also SMARTboard
friendly. I think it's going to make publishing much easier for teachers
and kids in our PreK - 1st grade classrooms. Here's their web site which is
not terribly slick, so don't be swayed by that:
Lucy Gray
University of Chicago Charter School
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Jayme Johnson <jjohnson@village-school.com>
wrote:
> I, too, share your frustrations with Kid Pix. It is the main software I
> use with younger students when doing illustrations. I recently attended the
> CUE conference in California and sat through a demo of Pixie 2. Every single
> question that I asked (stemming from issues I have encountered in Kid Pix)
> was answered. You are able to easily make slide shows, have multiple files
> open in tabs, publish to the web, make stickers out of kids photographs,
> resize images with no pixelization (sp?), limit viewable sticker libraries,
> print in a variety of formats (even trading card size!)
>
> Can you tell I'm a fan. I also received a free single computer copy. :-) I
> am testing it out (and having my kindergarten son test it as well) in
> preparation for purchasing Pixie 2 for our school this fall.
>
> Just my two cents...
> Jayme
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Ferris [mailto:sfmr@comcast.net]
> Sent: Sun 2/24/2008 3:46 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Cc:
> Subject: Pixie 2
>
> Thanks. You are going with this product over KidPix? Interesting...
> I had planned to do a download of an evaluation copy and then a web demo
> after our March break---
>
> Susan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Kennedy" <kennedy.linda@gmail.com>
> To: <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Looking for Multimedia app other than KidPix etc
>
>
> > Hi Susan, I share your opinion of Kid Pix and also looked around for an
> > alternative in our Lower School. We haven't made the purchase yet but
> have
> > decided to go with Pixie 2 by Tech4Learning,
> > http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie/index.html.
> >
> > Linda Kennedy
> > Technology Teacher
> > La Jolla Country Day School
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/23/08, Susan Ferris <sfmr@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi to all---
> >>
> >> I am looking for a new and more robust/ less limiting
> >> multimedia program for my lower school kids to use to write and
> >> illustrate---
> >> Something that allows the child to be VERY creative and at the same
> time
> >> work VERY independently---
> >>
> >> I have been using Kid Pix 4 (which as you know does not always work
> >> well---GRRR!!!)
> >> and of course the usual PowerPoint---
> >>
> >> Also I have used PhotoStory with my upper primary grades
> >> (and have been able to
> >> get several digital cameras/ teach some digital photography---
> >> YAHOO!---kids LOVE taking pictures!!!---)
> >> which has given greater opportunity for sound recording
> >> and less focus on text
> >>
> >> Perhaps my biggest obstacle is when we created entire class projects we
> >> must
> >> save to the network
> >> which is time comsuming and VERY cumbersome for the younger set---
> >> NONE of the programs are able to default to saving to the network---
> >>
> >> We are PC only which rules out Mac apps
> >>
> >> So, hat are other folks in the primary/upper primary level
> using/doing???
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Susan Ferris Rights
> >> The Pingry School
> >> 973-379-4550
> >> sfrights@pingry.org
> >>
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