Pixie is a creative, exciting software that students use to share their ideas and comprehension through text, artwork, voice narration, and images. They can work alone or in a group as well. They can work separately or simultaneously. While one student is drawing a picture, the other can be adding text, and yet another can be recording narration as they work together to tell a story. Pixie helps students develop collaboration, cooperation, and communication skills. It encourages cooperative learning that contributes to a whole group project. Pixie 3 has a really good quality for delivering content. Students can present their information using the entire screen. Also, it makes drawing easier and quicker because objects can be cloned and makes creating copies much simpler. Pixie is a great tool for self-expression and it motivates a wide variety of students of all ages. Pixie also helps students learn as technology encourages thinking, creativity, and communication skills. Pixie helps students collaborate information and supports group projects.
If you post it what you created on Pixie on Share, it creates a strong school-to-home connection. Students can publish their work online from home.
Share makes presentations such as PDF, Flash files, and websites easy. Share lets students combine text, pictures, animations, and movies to show understanding. Share allows for students to efficiently create customed websites with pictures, text and sound. It can show classroom schedules and assignments as well and can be used as a classroom site. Students can use Share to make portfolios that illustrate what they learned through writing doucuments, voice reflections, and videos.
Today, students have access to so much information. Creating using Share requires students to think and analyze information, make it into something new, and then communicate their ideas in a 21st century format.
