A creativity tool to match the potential of young minds
Pixie is exciting creativity software students can use to further their exploration of the world around them. Teachers can use and create customized activities to help their students gain foundational content knowledge in core subjects or design open-ended lessons combining text, stickers, and paint that help students apply the knowledge they have learned.
Whether students explore ready-made curriculum activities, demonstrate their understanding and knowledge through directed work, or showcase their creativity and imagination with original art and writing, Pixie is the only canvas they need.
Pixie helps students:
Create original artwork with fun and easy-to-use paint tools.
Record narration for descriptions and storytelling.
Add stickers to complete diagrams and illustrations.
Complete customized activities to show understanding.
Share their work through slideshows, movies, and online storybooks.
Curriculum Connections
Write, illustrate, and narrate new versions of fairy tales and fables.
Combine their student photos with original painting to design new book covers.
Draw pictures to create multiplication word problems.
Complete patterning activities or create new patterns with stickers.
Paint a picture of an animal in its habitat or the life cycle of a frog.
Illustrate a droplet throughout the water cycle..
Create an illustrated biography and turn it into a biography movie.
Create a journal as a Revolutionary War soldier and publish online..
Use the paint tools to create an original piece of artwork.
Use the paint tools to create a modern Mondrian.
New in Pixie 3
Real time project collaboration
Touch UI mode
Multiple page documents
Interactive full-screen mode
Pics4Learning integrated into Stickers library
Import pages from files
Free transformation of text bubbles
Dashed line option for shapes
Color-based gradient fills
Scaling text and text objects
Selection-based spray tool
Perspective and reflection shadow options
Crayon and Marker paint brushes and erasers
Projects toolbar item
Free-rotate handle on selections
Ability to zoom canvas while working
Repeat a page when printing multiple pages per sheet
Export image files with multi-image layouts
System Requirements
Intel Core Duo 1ghz or better
Windows XP SP2
512 MB RAM (1GB of RAM
recommended)
300 MB of available hard disk
space
1024x600 resolution or higher
1 GB hard drive space
Intel Core Duo 1ghz or better
OS X 10.5, 10.6, or 10.7
512 MB RAM
1 GB of available hard disk
space
1024x600 resolution or higher
Intel Core Duo 1GHz or better
SUSE 10/Edubuntu
2 GB RAM
1 GB of hard drive space
1024x600 resolution or higher
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