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Pixie is exciting creativity software with an array of paint and easy to use image editing tools. Pupils of all ages can manipulate images and design original artwork. Edit images by applying a variety of graphic effects and cool edges to photos. Create original art using unique paint tools, shapes, and fill options. Tell stories using pictures from the sticker library. Pixie 2 is a communication tool for your pupils ideas. Pupils can create original artwork and edit photographs they have taken with a digital camera. Pupils can write and illustrate stories and record their narration. Pupils can create newsletters, greeting cards, and books. Pupils can create digital stories with photos, sound, and art. Pixie is the creativity tool to give life to the curriculum and your pupils imagination. With export options that allow students to share their work as images, movies, slide shows, and web sites, their audience is without limit. Pupils can use the expanded print features to create booklets of original stories, comic strips of historical events, trading cards for literary characters, and more. Pupils can quickly create movies, slide shows, and web sites with just a few clicks of the mouse. Integrate Pixie directly into your curriculum! The Pixie Activities library has been expanded to include over 500 activities on topics such as measurement in mathematics, five senses in science, community in social studies, and reading and writing in literacy. There are templates and other pages to help with research and information organisation. Online maintenance for the Activities and Stickers keeps pupils up-to-date with new art and activities added all the time. Pixie is now available for popular Linux distributions as well

Features

• NEW Optional Whiteboard toolbar places tools close to editing panel.
• NEW Thought bubbles for text objects.
• "Cool Word" feature enables pupils to create amazing text effects.
• 18 graphics efffects can be applied to photos and other images.
• Over 60 ready made starter activities
• 7 background libraries including "colour me" images for early learners.
• NEW online library of thousands of stickers to complete diagrams and illustration
• NEW Browse Pics4Learning images, a free community based resource for royalty free safe graphics
• NEW Keyboard shortcuts to program with Intellikeys Keyboard
• NEW Talking interface (optional)

Benefits

• A cross curriucular tool that can be used by pupils to demonstrate understanding in literacy, science and maths concepts, as well as art techniques.
• Pupils can apply a variety of graphic effects and cool edgesto photots that they import.
• Unique paint tools, shapes, and fill options help pupils create original artwork.
• Stickers from a cross curricular library can be easily dropped onto the canvas.
• Pupil's work can be easily viewed as a slide show or shared as a web page.
• Free differentiated training materials from www.myt4l.com

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