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Software Professional Learning Pics4Learning Creative Educator MENU Software Pixie Software for student publishing and creativity. Wixie Online student publishing and creativity platform. Frames Create animations, digital stories, and stop-motion. Share Create web sites, epubs, and presentations. Pricing | System Requirements | Support Professional Learning Project-based Learning Wixie Integration Services Pics4Learning Creative Educator Pixie Software for student publishing and creativity. Wixie Online student publishing and creativity platform. Frames Create animations, digital stories, and stop-motion. Share Create web sites, epubs, and presentations. Pricing | System Requirements | Support Use backgrounds in Wixie to give context to student projects Posted by Melinda Kolk on Feb 26, 2020 8:07:07 AM Tweet One of the more subtle features in Wixie is the difference between the background, paint, and objects layer. Since the background layer in Wixie exists behind everything, students can quickly and easily add text, stickers, and even painted artwork above it without “damaging” the image. Read More 0 Comments Click here to read/write comments Topics: Wixie Celebrating and encouraging kindness with Wixie Posted by Melinda Kolk on Feb 13, 2020 10:00:31 AM Tweet Editor’s Note: This guest blog post is from Aimee Clarke, an Instructional Technology Specialist in Virginia Beach. You can learn more from Aimee by following her on Twitter at @VBTechTeacher . I was excited to be approached by my school counselor, Blair Sutter ( @FESCounselor ), this past month with the question of how we could take a digital approach to our celebrations during the Great Kindness Challenge (January 27 – 31, 2020 ). She wanted to develop an activity that incorporated the 5C's (collaboration, citizenship, critical thinking, creativity, and communication) into her lessons that went beyond our typical use of GSuite. When I think about the 5C's of transformational learning, there is one immediate resource I ALWAYS want to go to and that all my students love - Wixie , the powerhouse instructional tool! Read More 0 Comments Click here to read/write comments Topics: Wixie , SEL , kindness Real World of Math: Show Favorite Sports with a Bar Graph Posted by Scott Loomis on Feb 10, 2020 8:14:44 AM Tweet Representing and interpreting data is a common theme in elementary mathematics instruction. Unfortunately, most activities seem to "spoon feed" the representation, typically a bar or line graph, to students with the x- and y-axis, labels and scale all completed and ready to go. What happened to the good old days when students were handed a piece of graph paper and had to create the representation from scratch? I can appreciate the need for students to efficiently demonstrate their knowledge, but I feel strongly that students need to create graphs 'from scratch' like we used to (as recorded in black and white movies!) when we were children. Read More 0 Comments Click here to read/write comments Topics: Wixie , real world of math Wixie's Month-by-Month templates make it easy to integrate technology Posted by Melinda Kolk on Feb 3, 2020 2:25:50 PM Tweet Students can always create in Wixie starting from a blank page! But many students (and teachers) work best with more direction. The Month-by-Month activities in Wixie’s Template library provide this direction and make it easy to integrate technology into daily classroom learning. Read More 0 Comments Click here to read/write comments Topics: Wixie Using letter writing to support literacy and curriculum understanding Posted by Melinda Kolk on Jan 16, 2020 10:31:39 AM Tweet The friendly letter is a ubiquitous elementary project, but without a meaningful context it often ends up as a rote exercise in following formatting rules. With the advent of digital tools and social media, the rules for formatting a friendly letter writing are also changing. While many bemoan this change, digital tools also made it easier to both edit writing, add visuals and voice, and share immediately with an audience beyond the classroom. 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