Wixie: Creativity and Communication - 21st Century Style

Creativity and Communication -21st Century StyleWhat is Wixie? Wixie is an online authoring tool students can use to construct knowledge and communicate ideas. Students can use Wixie's paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to create projects for all subject areas, building essential 21st century skills.A 21st century learning environment With Wixie, students can: • Showcase ideas online immediately by sharing a URL. • Embed projects in blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 applications. • Share projects as Flash animations. • Prints projects as comics, booklets, trading cards, and more. With Wixie, teachers can: • Choose from a range of pre-existing standards-based activities. • Customize and develop their own activities. • Easily review completed work from the entire class. • Communicate with colleagues to ask questions and share ideasWhat can students create? • Create non-linguistic representations to complement their writing. • Create graphs and models to represent data. • Use stickers or original illustrations to create visual word problems. • Use the paint tools to illustrate scientific processes. • Design geographic, political, and economic maps. • Develop biographies and write digital stories. • Place themselves in historical events and share their perspective. • Explore art styles and emulate masterpieces. • Create images to explore shape, line, and balance. • Draw pictures to explain abstract concepts.