Wixie Update Makes Student Projects Viewable on the iPad

Posted by Melinda Kolk on Mar 14, 2012 1:40:00 PM

San Diego, California, March 14, 2012 — Tech4Learning has released an update to Wixie that allows student projects to be viewed on the iPad. Wixie projects now play back in Flash, HTML 5 or HTML depending on the capabilities of the web browser viewing the project.

Wixie Activities

Wixie is a cloud-based authoring tool students can use to paint pictures, write stories, and record their voice to explore the curriculum and demonstrate mastery. Projects are automatically stored in the cloud, making it easy to distribute a URL and passkey for to share Wixie projects with family and the community.

“Students can now share their work without concern for what device will be used to view it,” shares Melinda Kolk, VP of Curriculum and Professional Development at Tech4Learning, “and now teachers can view and assess student work from their laptops or their iPads.”

“We have been working to make Wixie available to as many devices and users as possible. This is an important step in providing an wide audience for student work,” explains David Wagner, CEO of Tech4Learning.

To learn more about Wixie, visit the Tech4Learning web site at: www.tech4learning.com/wixie.

Topics: Wixie, iPad, project