TuxPaint is very good and a good competitor to KidPix. PLEASE make it work well on the XO and on SOAS. Anecdote: When I spent a week in a Kindergarten with my XOs, only one of the machines had TuxPaint. (All the rest had been upgraded to the build turning Rainbow on, and at the time I didn't know how to disable this.) The kids vied to use the machine with TuxPaint. They were completely uninterested in paint.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected] > wrote: > Today I visited a computer lab at a school in Boston where 3-5 year olds > (the PreK class) were using the computers in the computer lab. > > The teacher tried to get them to use Kidspirations to look at and stamp > bugs but they rebelled. All they wanted to do was use KidPix. > > We need a paint program that is as cool as KidPix or we will suffer the > same fate. They will turn off Sugar and go back to Windows to use KidPix! > > In Kidpix the students learned that they need to use the mouse and not the > keyboard. By the time I left all students had managed to learn to use the > mouse to make something on the screen. I saw some kids make the connection > that they had done something with the mouse and it had appeared on the > screen. Some were painting with colors, others were stamping with images. > Some kids had learned how to erase the screen and start over. > > Clearly learning was going on. I thought to myself, "what would take this > lesson to the next level for these students". I think, based on the > interactions the teachers were having as they spent individual time with the > students, that it would be valuable to these students to begin to tell > stories about their pictures. It would be cool if the kids could record a > voice note when they saved a picture in the journal. This could help the > teachers move them towards telling stories about thier pictures. I think > that would in turn motivate them to want to control what they did with the > picture more. > > Our goal with the journal is to get kids to reflect on thier work. For > many of the students in the age range we serve typing that reflection is > going to be a challenge and we might well get more thoughtful reflection if > they could speak it. > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [email protected] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
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