Tech4Learning has released an update to Wixie that allows organizations to use Google Accounts for authenticating users. Wixie is a cloud-based authoring tool students can use to paint pictures, write stories, and record their voice while exploring and mastering the curriculum. Google Accounts provides a way for third-party applications to authorize users, providing an opportunity for single sign on.
Melinda Kolk
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Wixie update lets users sign in with Google Accounts
Posted by Melinda Kolk on Jun 7, 2012 4:30:00 PM
Tech4Learning has released the Pixie Home Edition, a trimmed-down version of the award-winning Pixie software, that provides an affordable ($19.95 on Amazon) way to continue the learning at home. Research shows Pixie improves student achievement at school, and now families can promote the same great learning through creativity at home.
Topics: pixie, creativity, creative software, play
Tech4Learning has released Frames 5, an upgrade to their award-winning Frames animation and digital storytelling software. Frames makes it easy for anyone to create cartoons, stop-motion, claymation, and digital stories. With version 5, users can now capture of images for time-lapse, path animate frame objects, easily match frame duration to audio, collaborate on projects in real-time, and much more.
Topics: frames, digital storytelling, claymation, stopmotion, animation
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.
San Diego, California, February 14, 2012 — Tech4Learning’s Wixie is now available as an app in Google’s Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/). 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.
Topics: Wixie, cloud-computing, App, chromebooks
Tech4Learning releases Common Core guides for Pixie
Posted by Melinda Kolk on Jan 18, 2012 2:28:00 PM
Tech4Learning has released Common Core Curriculum Guides for Pixie to help K-5 educators align creativity, their curriculum, and the Common Core Standards.
Topics: pixie, creativity, common core, standards
Tech4Learning has released an update to Wixie that makes it easy to track student progress toward achievement of Common Core Standards. Wixie is an authoring tool students can use to paint pictures, write stories, and record their voice to explore the curriculum and demonstrate mastery.
Topics: creativity, creative software, creativity software, common core, Wixie
Research Supports the Use of Creative Technology to Boost Achievement
Posted by Melinda Kolk on Nov 18, 2011 3:30:00 PM
In a five state study of third through fifth graders conducted by SEG Measurement, students demonstrated significant growth in Reading and Mathematics when using Pixie®, a creativity software tool from Tech4Learning, Inc. Tested on the SAT10 achievement tests, students in the treatment group demonstrated a half year more growth in Reading and Math than students in the control group.
Topics: pixie, assessment, research, score, SAT10
Clark County School District Approves Pixie for Title III Funds
Posted by Melinda Kolk on Oct 14, 2011 9:59:00 AM
San Diego, California October 13, 2011 — Clark County School District in Nevada has approved Pixie for purchase using Title III funds. Pixie’s inclusion on the Elementary ESL Qualified Materials List means ELL students in Clark County schools will be able to use Pixie to build language skills through projects that combine text, visual supports, original artwork, and voice narration. Title III is a federal program that provides grants to improve the education of limited English proficient students as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
Tech4Learning Awarded Five-Year Contract by Department of Defense Education Activities (DoDEA)
Posted by Melinda Kolk on Oct 4, 2011 12:29:00 PM
Tech4Learning has been awarded a five-year contract by the Department of Defense Education Activities to continue to provide enterprise-wide software solutions to students in the DoDEA system. Students will have access to all Tech4Learning products on any computer in the system, including market leaders Pixie, Share, and Frames. DoDEA students will also take advantage of cloud-based services Wixie, K12Share, and Recipes4Success to build essential 21st century communication skills.
Topics: pixie, creativity software, frames, share, Wixie, dodea, technology, K12Share