Multimedia Slide Show.Envision your students designing and creating a multimedia slide show. Such shows can be created using a variety of technology resources and multimedia tools. One easy way is to use the Kid Pix Kid Pix is a bitmap drawing program aimed at children. Originally created by Craig Hickman, it was first released for the Macintosh in 1989 and subsequently published in 1991 by Brøderbund. Slideshow software, an inexpensive "paint" program designed for young children. This multimedia tool produces color pictures, records sound, and creates a textbox with pictures. Children simply click the button and a dialog box A movable window that is displayed on screen in response to the user selecting a menu option. It provides the current status and available options for a particular feature in the program. appears, listing the different types of graphic files available. Once the student chooses a desired file, miniature pictures will appear. After selecting a topic, the student then clicks the button to record his or her voice or a sound that relates to the selected picture. The student also can add transitions to creatively connect one slide to the next by scrolling an image from the side, descending from the top, or appearing from the middle of an existing image. Oh, what fun and excitement can emerge as children immerse themselves in these slideshow productions. Why not get started planning an integrated learning experience using a multimedia slide show? Kid Pix is available for Macintosh and Windows from Broderbund Software, 500 Redwood Blvd., Novato, California Novato is a city located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, in northern Marin County. As of a 2000 census, the city population was 47,630. Novato is 30 miles north of San Francisco on US 101. 94948. This Idea-Sparker was submitted by Trimika Yates, English Arts Education Graduate Student, Hampton University Hampton University, at Hampton, Va.; coeducational; founded 1868, chartered 1870 as a normal and agricultural school; known as Hampton Institute 1930–84. , Hampton, Virginia Hampton is an independent city in Virginia, and therefore not part of any Virginia county. One of the Seven Cities of Hampton Roads, it is on the southeast end of the Virginia Peninsula, bordering on Hampton Roads and Chesapeake Bay. As of the 2000 U.S. . |
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