Innovations_KidPix

= Mini Teach on = By: Mayra Aguilar, Addison Conlon, Andy Groft  =

What is Kid Pix?

Many students and teachers are familiar with Kid Pix. First created on a Macintosh by Craig Hickman, it has been a popular and user friendly educational software package for many years. He created Kid Pix because his son was having too much trouble with MacPaint. With Kid Pix, students can create electronic books, slide shows, postcards, and many other fun written and visual products in a much simpler fashion.

Sample Creations: media type="youtube" key="cTeyUQtT6Ww?fs=1" height="259" width="356" media type="youtube" key="HQpwsTSr4nI?fs=1" height="263" width="340"

How does Kid Pix work?

All you have to do is sign in to let the FUN begin! Then, choose a background from the options given on your very own tool bar. Once you have decided on that, you can choose whether you want to paint, draw, use stamps or all of the above. Finally, when you have finished your masterpiece you can turn it into a slideshow, save to add onto it later or even print it out for your fridge. You can also add music, drawings, captions, color enhancements, moving pictures and more. When you have finished your creation, you can share it with other students, parents, teacher, and many more. The possibilities are endless.

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How teachers can use Kid Pix in the classroom:

· Creative Lesson Plans. For example: if you are teaching a lesson on addition, then you can use pictures to symbolize numbers. · During open house, a teacher can show the parents skills that the students will be learning in the classroom. can also have the parents create a simple page on Kid Pix about what they would like their child to take away from the classroom this year. · To help develop children’s visual creativity and basic computer based graphic arts skills. Teachers can simplify the program for younger students or make the program more complex for older students. It can be applied to many different subject areas
 * Different templates can be used for a variety of activities like arts & crafts, language, math, and science activities, and idea-mapping.
 * A fun, interactive way to show their fellow colleagues, principal and administrators what their students have been learning in the classroom and how far the computer skills have advanced.

How Students can use Kid Pix in the classroom:


 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">During the different seasons like winter you can illustrate songs such as Frosty the Snowman. By giving each student one verse then having them draw a picture that matches the verse in Kid Pix you can later put it all together to make a class book they can share with their parents. It is an education yet fun activity they can share with their parents.

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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Having first grade students create a book of spelling words.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Second graders can use the Venn Diagram template to organize ideas about a story.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Students in third grade can illustrate favorite parts of a story, or even create their own story based off a picture they create.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Fun Stuff on Kid Pix
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Idea Machine - This contains ideas for activities and starters for students.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Paint a Picture - Children use traditional tools such as a paint can, paintbrush, eraser, text, stamps,and pencil to create their own slide.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Moopies - Children can animate anything that is drawn or stamped on the screen.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Stampimator - This animates only the stamp on the screen, not the drawings.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Wacky TV - Children can view movie files, imported or otherwise, to use in their presentations.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Digital Puppets - Children can include puppets in their presentations.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Kids will also like to use the computer for math equations a whole lot better than just a pen and paper.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Kids would also be able to label differnt things such as plant and animals for science class.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Students can create different habitats for animals by painting where certain animals would live the best in..ie the rain forest, desert, or mountain side.

===<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Below are a list of awesome links that explain a little bit more about Kid Pix and shows great ways to incorporate Kid Pix into the classroom! ===

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[|Kid Pix 4 User Guide.pdf]
<span style="color: #ff0090; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">References: Cynthia Garland. (no date). Kid Pix Lessons. In Technology for Creative Minds. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from [].

Technokids Inc.. (no date). Kid Pix Deluxe Lesson Plans. In Technokids Computer Curriculum. Retrieved September 10, 2010, from [].

Emily Bolliger, Kelli Cox, Malori Wriston. (2009). Arizona State University Fall class Wetzel. Sept. 10, 2010.