21st century students need a 21st century approach

Wixie is an online authoring tool students can use to construct knowledge and communicate ideas. Today’s learners need a tool that is accessible whenever and wherever they are ready to learn! Students can use Wixie’s paint tools, text options, clip art, and voice recording to develop online storybooks and Flash animations, building essential 21st century skills, including:

• Creativity and Innovation as they develop, implement, and communicate ideas and demonstrate originality and inventiveness
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving as they frame, analyze, and synthesize information to solve problems and answer questions
• Communication and Collaboration as they articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively and share responsibility for collaborative work

Sharing their work has never been easier

With Wixie, student work is automatically saved online so projects can be viewed by teachers, parents, community members, and other global audience members.

• Showcase ideas online immediately by sharing a URL
• Embed project work in blogs, wikis, and other Web 2.0 applications
• Share work as Flash animations
• Print work as comics, booklets, and trading cards to create authentic products
• Export images for use in other applications/for presentations, web pages, and more

A 21st century learning environment

Today’s classrooms have a wider range of learning needs than ever before. Wixie takes advantage of new technologies allowing you to distribute your learning environment to whatever location works best for your students when they are ready to learn. Students can log in and use Wixie at school, in the lab, at home, at the library, or anywhere with an online connection to complete work you have assigned or use their imagination to develop whatever inspires them.

Manage, distribute, and evaluate assignments

The teacher functions in Wixie let you choose, edit, create, and store the activities you want your students to complete. Wixie includes standards-based curriculum activities that help you meet your classroom curriculum goals. You can utilize existing activities, customize them to meet the needs of your classroom, or design your own. Whatever you choose, the files can be assigned to your students and they are immediately waiting for the students to log in and begin working.

• Choose from a range of pre-existing standards-based activities
• Customize and develop their own activities
• Assign and distribute activities that will appear when students log in
• Easily view and evaluate completed work from the entire class!

Build 21st Century Skills

To develop 21st century skills, students need powerful and creative tools. Solving problems and building projects with Wixie fosters creativity and innovation, develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and strengthens student’s ability to communicate and collaborate.

Customize and Distribute Assignments

Wixie includes hundreds of standards-based curriculum activities that help teachers meet curriculum goals. Activities can be customized to the needs of your classroom and distributed to students in seconds.

Implementing Wixie is Easy

Wixie uses the same intuitive interface as its desktop counterpart Pixie, making training easy. Even without prior experience, Wixie is easy to learn and use. Since Wixie is online, it can be deployed to all students without having to install on individual computers.

Use Wixie for a variety of learning outcomes

There are endless opportunities for successfully integrating Wixie into your classroom curriculum to support student learning. With Wixie students can explore existing activities that teach and assess student understanding as well as create original work that demonstrates comprehension of classroom topics:

Language Arts

Wixie provides tools for students to build early literacy skills, whether they are completing activities to learn initial sounds or retelling stories to demonstrate comprehension. Students can develop rhyming words and alliteration skills by creating their own illustrated poems and limericks. Students can record their voices to build fluency skills and practice their expression.

• Complete activities that support early literacy goals like phonemic awareness
• Retell stories they are reading to demonstrate comprehension
• Create non-linguistic representations that complement their writing
• Record narration for descriptions and storytelling

Math

Students can use the activities, tools, and options in Wixie to grasp important math concepts. Students can explore existing activities that teach and assess number sense, fractions, geometry skills, and more. Students develop higher-order thinking skills and learn to organize information by constructing

• Sort pictures and create patterns
• Draw pictures to explain abstract concepts
• Create graphs and models to represent data
• Use stickers to create visual word problems and illustrate processes

Science

Students can complete existing Wixie Activities that explore weather, seasons, habitats, life cycles, and more. Students can use the tools and options to construct their own graphs, models, and diagrams. Extend observation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills with student-created projects that incorporate painting, matching, sorting, analyzing, and more.

• Use the paint tools to illustration scientific processes
• Add stickers to show scientific cycles
• Create graphs and models to represent data

Social Studies

Students can complete activities exploring geography, culture, holidays, and foreign language to meet specific social studies goals. Students can use the export features to create comic strips of historical events, trading cards for famous leaders, digital stories about immigration, and more.

• Develop biographies and write digital stories
• Design geographic, political, and economic maps
• Tell stories about their community and local history
• Place themselves in historical events and share their perspective

Art

Students can use Wixie’s paint tools to explore artistic elements like shape, line, balance, and symmetry or apply these tools to create artistic works that emulate the style of a particular artist. Students can also combine the paint tools with text, stickers, voice narration and more to develop original works of art, digital stories, biographies, and trading cards.

• Explore art styles and create their own artistic masterpieces
• Create original designs using the paint tools
• Identify and explore shape, line, balance, light and more in images they create

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