Pixie

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=**What is Pixie?**=
 * Pixie is a creativity tool which helps students:**
 * create original art
 * record narration
 * share pictures in slideshows/movies
 * demonstrate their understanding with pictures, sounds, and narrated stories

=**Special features**=

Educational Templates

 * content specific and ready to go (Go to "File" and then "Open Activity" on the Pixie toolbar)
 * make your own activities and save as templates for students to complete



Print Options

 * table tent
 * greeting card
 * booklet
 * comic book
 * trading cards

Photo and Voice Narration
=**Multimedia Example**=
 * upload and add photo effects to student pictures
 * add student voices to narrate their work
 * make "cool words" and other special text to save as images for use anywhere (JPEG, BMG, GIF, and PNG)

BEFORE and AFTER Pixie The movie below is an updated version of an assignment that I received years and years ago in first grade. I made the book into a movie with Pixie! If only my teacher would have had Pixie back then, my drawings would have been more creative, I could have recorded my voice speaking the sentences I came up with, and my work would have been "published" for the world. As it was made in the 1980s, my //teacher// did most of the work. She had to make copies of our dictated writing and cut the pages out and assemble the book. All we did as students was draw the pictures and brainstorm the sentences. How lucky teachers and students are now to have a tool like Pixie! The //students// can be empowered to create multimedia projects themselves.

AFTER Pixie: Movie media type="file" key="first grade rain.MOV"



=Integration Ideas= A HUGE thank you to TRT Amy Boehman for compiling the integration lists below!

Language Arts
Create an ABC book. Give each student a different letter to stamp out with stickers or draw with the tools. Create a noun sort by person, place and thing Sort words by consonant sound or vowel sound Complete a "Making Words" activity using the letter stickers Create writing prompts for kids: Seasons, My Favorite Animal, My Hero, etc. Graphic Organizers: Venn Diagrams, Story Maps, KWL, etc. Sort words by syllables Type and illustrate a poem Create trading cards of literary figures Sort between real and fictional characters

Math
Import real pictures. Draw and label angles that you find. Use the coins to show different ways to make the same amount of money. Stamp out number sentences to illustrate them. Symmetry with the mirror tool. Expanded form

Science
Illustrate Life Cycles Sort by Living and Non-Living Illustrate the Water Cycle or the Rock Cycle Illustrate weather for the week Sort objects by sink or float Label parts of an insect, parts of a flower, layers of the earth, planets in the solar system, layers of the rainforest, etc. Food Chains and Food Webs Food Pyramids Differences between whales and fish Differences between types of rocks Create trading cards of different rocks, minerals, or elements

Social Studies
"If I were president" writing prompt Label a map of the US by the intials of each state Compare presidents or any 2 historical figures Add a state stamp and fill it with stamps that represent resources available from that state Color the regions of MD Sort by community helpers Sort by human, natural, and capital resources Create trading cards of historical figures or current political figures Create a postcard from a historical landmark or location

Art
Design a kite Design a Christmas ornament Paint a self-portrait Label a color wheel

=**Resources**= [|Trading Post] find and/or share your Pixie activities with other educators [|Tech4Learning Pixie Page] short introduction video and other resources [|www.tech4learning.com/pixie/integration] State Standards search and Student Samples [|www.recipes4success.com] tutorials are available in 3 different levels (see the diamonds) and are available in online or print formats.
 * **__Recipes__** are longer and show all of the tools in action in order to make a product
 * __**Snacks**__ show step-by-step directions for simple tools and features