If you're about my age, you'll remember Kid Pix. Dr. Kitchenham has commented that it is basically a PowerPoint program. I found his comment interesting because I have never thought of it as a PP program. I always thought of it as this cool art program that let you do whatever you can think of, and even more. Seriously, there were things on that program that blew my mind when I was a kid. The marker that changes colour when you use it? Awesome!
It's a program that you can use for serious objective based assignments or for just having fun and fooling around. I had no idea people were still using it until it was brought up in Tech Ed recently.
I just did a quick search on Google and came up with this site for Kid Pix lesson plans. There are probably quite a few out there...
http://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/KidPixIdeas.htm
I'm going to download this program. Sounds like a great program (I've been nice all year...need a new laptop hint, hint, wink, wink. Hoping Santa sends a laptop to me, you see my old Acer laptop is not working properly) Thanks for sharing Alex.
ReplyDeleteHey that's cool! I don't remember using kid pix at all when I was a kid. That's a good way to help kids increase their computer graphics skills at the same time as refining their art skills.
ReplyDeleteI used to use this program with primary kids - and that was at least 14 years ago! So I would also be surprised that people are still using it. But yes, creativity without the mess. And kids certainly learned to use the tools by experimenting, so that they had an intuitive understanding of how to use tools in other programs. I think I could have done much more with it - I don't remember any lessons - I think they just played with it on Fridays when they went to the computer lab when their desks were clean! I had an EA so she went to the lab and people who had kept their desks tidy could go sooner. Maybe not the best way to make use of learning time but it certainly kept the apple cores and dirty socks out of their desks!
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