Pixie 3 Single - Mac/Win

by Tech4Learning

Product Features

• Create original paintings with easy-to-use tools.
• Record narration for descriptions and storytelling.
• Share pictures as slideshows, movies, and html.
• Create podcast stories with original artwork

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B0016A1US4
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 20, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,767 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #79 in Software > Children's Software > Activities

Product Description

Kids love using Pixie! Pixie is exciting creativity software with an array of paint and easy-to-use image editing tools. Kids can tell stories, create original artwork, and manipulate photos.

Features: Create original art using the paint brush, crayon, marker, shapes, and fill tools. Edit images by applying a variety of graphic effects and edges to photos. Tell stories using pictures from the sticker library. Record your voice narrating a story, practicing vocabulary, or recalling a family vacation. Share your creations in a slide show, online gallery, or other programs. Export pictures to email to friends, print booklets and greeting cards, show off your pictures in a slide show, create a movie or podcast, or share your pictures in an online image gallery.

Support Learning: Pixie is used in thousands of classrooms to engage students in the curriculum. Pixie has hundreds of standards-based curriculum activities you can use at home to support and reinforce what kids are learning in school.

Awards: Pixie is an iParenting Best Product, a District Administration Reader's Choice, a Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice, and has a Seal of Approval from the National Parenting Center.

Research-backed: In a nationwide study, students in classrooms using Pixie significantly outperformed students in classrooms that did not on a nationally recognized standardized test for reading and math.

System Requirements: Macintosh OS X 10.5 or later, Windows XP SP2, Vista, or Windows 7.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Creativity Tool for Kids (and fun-loving adults!), December 4, 2008

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L. Spencer (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pixie 3 Single - Mac/Win (CD-ROM)

I've been using this program for 3 years, both as a teacher and as a mom. Since others reviewed on its classroom potential, let me tell you how much my own kids love it. I first brought home this software when my daughter was 4 years old. It did not take her long to learn how to draw pictures, insert "stickers" (clip art), and print her artwork to hang around the house. As the program, and my youngest child, have grown, she is now making slideshow movies that she sends to her grandparents. They love being able to see her art, and hear her audio narration. The best part is that she can do it all on her own. My only contribution is to email the completed Quicktime file! My oldest daughter is in 5th grade. She uses the program to complete her homework assignments - vocabulary cartoons, an American Explorer report, scientific lab write ups... it's all being done on Pixie. And it engages her learning in ways other software do not. She actually comes up with ideas/topics to research just so she can produce a product for it on Pixie. How many parents can say that? I kid you not when I say you can learn all the key aspects of the program in under 15 minutes. Even my 76 year old grandfather was playing with the program over the Thanksgiving weekend. It's just a fun, powerful tool that should be standard issue on all new computers. I can't praise it enough.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Creativity Tool!, November 24, 2008

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Elizabeth Allen "Liz" (Saint Clair Shores, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pixie 3 Single - Mac/Win (CD-ROM)

This project based creativity tool provides children with a blank canvas upon which they can creatively express understanding of curricular content, turn their thoughts in to pictures, and their imagination in to a frameable piece of artwork! This program has several desirable features that lend itself well to education both at home and school. Pixie allows users to synthesize their work into a website, slideshow, movie, or picture. Additionally, this creativity software provides users with not only "for fun" clip art, but, clip art geared towards learning, ie: life cycle stages, math dominos, coins, states, etc. As an added bonus, Pixie offers a "talk" feature which when in use, allows users to click on the aforementioned stickers to hear the name of the sticker. This feature is great for ELL, ESL, and below grade level readers. Pixie offers endless educational opportunities for students of all learning styles and abilities! Not a day goes by where I don't use Pixie in my media center!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My students love Pixie., November 18, 2008

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J. Kosako (Monterey Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pixie 3 Single - Mac/Win (CD-ROM)

Pixie is the best software for Kindergarten to fifth grade. My students love this program. They call me mr. pixie because they love this program. My students draw with this program, they created cool edge with their digital pictures, they even create e-books(electronic). This program is awesome. I highly recommend this software over all the other. The company is a stellar company.