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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Happy New Year! Tech4Learning has been busy adding new resources to Wixie for you and your students! Here are just a few new things from Tech4Learning this January.

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Combine Wixie with your favorite winter-themed picture books to turn your emerging readers into authors! 

Wixie's Curriculum library includes a range of story adaptation templates you can assign to students after reading your favorite winter-themed books. Use these ideas to get your students excited about reading and writing in wintry weather.

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Creating holiday gifts is a great way to bolster student literacy skills and demonstrate how their work and effort have value beyond the classroom. What better way to put student creativity to good use than having them create unique holiday gifts that show appreciation for family, friends, or community members? 

Students love making things, and Wixie makes it easy to create a range of items. Use these simple Wixie gifting ideas to get your students creating and sharing in minutes.

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While most people associate computational thinking with coding, computational thinking skills help us more effectively solve problems and make decisions. In order to develop algorithms, students must be able to analyze data, recognize patterns, generalize rules, decompose problems, and more.

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