Using Wixie to Build Preschool Skills

Posted by Carolyn Daly on Mar 17, 2023 8:15:00 AM

Albert Einstein once said, "Play is the highest form of research." So, rather than placing your preschoolers in front of another edutainment game, get them logged into Wixie so they can play to learn!

Wixie makes it easy for students to have fun practicing their numbers, letters, empathy skills, and more and gain satisfaction and joy for sharing what they have learned with others!

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Topics: Wixie, preschool, PreK

What's New - February 2023

Posted by Carolyn Daly on Feb 15, 2023 7:58:36 AM

Tech4Learning has been busy adding new classroom management features to Wixie and resources, including over 50 templates to support the NGSS standards and a new preschool progression roadmap. 

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Topics: Wixie, Tech4Learning

Digital Valentines with Wixie

Posted by Melinda Kolk on Jan 31, 2023 8:51:37 AM

This blog explores an alternative to the traditional Valentine card exchange. Rather than buying, and exchanging, printed and candy-filled Valentines, use Wixie to have students craft a digital Valentine's Day message and then print or exchange electronically. 

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Topics: Wixie, valentine

3 ways to use Wixie for social-emotional learning

Posted by Carolyn Daly on Jan 24, 2023 7:10:17 AM

This guest post was written by Kerri Lambert, Instructional Technology Teacher Specialist at Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Tech4Learning Innovative Educator.

Social emotional learning (SEL) has surged to the forefront of education over the last several years. The importance of mental health and building relationships became glaringly apparent during the pandemic, and that has carried over as students and teachers returned to physical classrooms.

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Topics: Wixie, social-emotional, SEL

Green screen your students "into" their Wixie projects

Posted by Melinda Kolk on Jan 17, 2023 8:17:36 AM

Students love to be a part of the action and using a green screen makes it easy to jump into a range of digital classroom projects. Imagine sharing information as an animal, transporting yourself back in time or exploring a far away culture. Green screen can help.

Green screen commonly refers to removing the background from an image so it can be easily combined with a different image. A "green screen" is what you put your actor in front of as you capture their image. The computer then uses a process called chroma key to remove a single color or color range from the background, making it easy to combine with a new background.

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Topics: digital storytelling, Wixie

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