by Tech4Learning
Platform:
Windows 7, Mac OS X
(6)Buy new: $54.95
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Kids love using Pixie! Pixie is exciting creativity software with an array of paint and easy-to-use image editing tools. Kids can tell stories, create original artwork, and manipulate photos.
Features: Create original art using the paint brush, crayon, marker, shapes, and fill tools. Edit images by applying a variety of graphic effects and edges to photos. Tell stories using pictures from the sticker library. Record your voice narrating a story, practicing vocabulary, or recalling a family vacation. Share your creations in a slide show, online gallery, or other programs. Export pictures to email to friends, print booklets and greeting cards, show off your pictures in a slide show, create a movie or podcast, or share your pictures in an online image gallery.
Support Learning: Pixie is used in thousands of classrooms to engage students in the curriculum. Pixie has hundreds of standards-based curriculum activities you can use at home to support and reinforce what kids are learning in school.
Awards: Pixie is an iParenting Best Product, a District Administration Reader's Choice, a Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice, and has a Seal of Approval from the National Parenting Center.
Research-backed: In a nationwide study, students in classrooms using Pixie significantly outperformed students in classrooms that did not on a nationally recognized standardized test for reading and math.
System Requirements: Macintosh OS X 10.5 or later, Windows XP SP2, Vista, or Windows 7.