Wixie includes a new category of objects called Widgets, that allow for additional interactivity in a project. Widgets can be an entire Wixie project or websites in a frame, or a special interactive objects that can change their appearance or animate. 

Magic Stickers are Widgets that a user clicks or that have their appearance set when a user opens a project. For example, the Ask the 8 Ball gives a prediction each time the user clicks, but the Christmas Countdown displays the number of days until December 25th. Talkies are a type of Magic Sticker that reads text, reads a text object, or plays a recorded sound.

Use Wixie's Magic Stickers to create interactive games, unique projects, and math practice activities that generate new content each time they are used!

Magic stickers are active when you click the Show button to present a project. When using Magic Stickers as part of an activity, designers can also set a magic sticker to function while editing by locking them.

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Using a device to fill out a digital worksheet isn’t any more compelling than using a pencil to fill out a paper version. Encourage students to show what they know and capitalize on their interest in technology by creating digital projects on classroom topics using media formats that abound in the world around them.

This blog shares ideas for digital projects students can create in Wixie to meet standards and learning goals in middle school, whether students are learning at school or at home. The blog is divided into sections for:

• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Arts & SEL

Each idea includes a sample and a text link to open a template you can assign as a teacher, or use as a student, immediately. The end of each subject area section also includes two products students can create with ideas for implementing that product in multiple areas.

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Whether you are an instructional technology coach or classroom teacher, you likely have a very large number of tools and instructional strategies to support teacher professional development. To make the most of any time you have, help teachers get comfortable with a single idea they can deploy in a range of subjects for a range of learning goals.

This blog focuses on the: cluster organizer.

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Talkies are animated magic stickers that read text, read a text object, or play a recorded sound. Imagine an interview with an animal, or person from history, where the answers are animated responses or perhaps an element talking about how it acts when bonded with another element.

Click the sound button to see and hear an example of how talkies work.

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Play is active, engaging, and meaningful for the player. Use play to help get students to make powerful connections to math and engage in effective math practice.

Organized by type of play, these play-based ideas with Wixie can help students build essential numeracy, geometric, and logic skills, while enjoying their adventures with math.

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