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Step into any Public School or Sunday School computer lab in North America and
you'll likely see Kid Pix.-- It's that popular and versatile.
Here's why....
Kid Pix is a creative writing
and illustrating program that can be used to create content on
ANY SUBJECT and with a wide age range of students.
Our Sunday School
customers get Kid Pix so that their kids can
create their own Bible content using Kid Pix's great
drawing tools, built-in clipart,
animations and colorful backgrounds, and Kid Pix's built in "text to
speech" feature which
allows the computer to speak aloud whatever the kids type
on their presentation. Teachers can bring in photos and graphics for
the kids to import and use in their presentations.
We have often called Kid
Pix "Power Point for Kids."
Your students can select from a huge
collection of ready-made scenery, animated graphics and clipart, text
options to
assemble what we sometimes call "Talking Bible Storybooks."
These storybooks can be one simple page, or many pages you create and
put into a "slideshow." You can type words or complete sentences
and the paragraphs for the computer to speak aloud.
Here are just a
few things you can do with Kid Pix in your classroom:
- Students can
illustrate Bible
scenes and situations, and create reflections, prayers or poems,
etc.
- Create characters and put a talk
balloon over their head then let Kid Pix read the text aloud in a
computer voice.
- Illustrate key verses.
- Illustrate scenes
from a story, print them out, and play a "put the Bible scenes in
order" game.
- Teachers
or teen helpers can create a presentation to introduce ideas to the
younger kids.
- You can also import
your own graphics and photos and turn them into kid-powered
presentations!
Our free
Kid Pix Teaching Tips have many more project
ideas and tips.
KidPix also has READY-MADE templates
to create CARDS, POSTERS, STORYBOOKs, reports, letters, etc.
Your students will easily pick up how to operate it.
Your kids will be familiar
with Kid Pix as previous versions of it have been in use in public
schools for MANY years.
View our Kid Pix Teaching and Project Ideas
to see how churches are using it in their lessons.
View one customer's Kid Pix review and great
lesson idea
View Pricing and System Details below
 The neatest feature of Kid Pix
is this:
whatever kids type on the screen...
-Kid Pix
can read out loud over their computer speakers.
This "text-to-speech" feature is a crowd pleaser.
It encourages students to creatively reflect, create dialog,
and retell stories. They create the illustration, add the text, then play
it back for each other. The teacher works with them to create good
content, and asks questions after their presentation. In one of my favorite Kid Pix lessons,
we study a Bible story, then ask them to rewrite and illustrate
a scene in their own words. Even young children enjoy having
someone help them type their story because they can't wait to
hear it spoken by the computer. Kid Pix gives you a choice
of voices to hear the text in.
They can create one page with text and illustration, or several
page and put them in a slideshow.
Our free Teaching
Tips for Kid Pix give you lots of ideas. |
Kid Pix Features:
- Art
tools to paint with, including: pastels, crayons, markers, and much more
- 1000's of colors,
100 "wacky brushes" with special effects
- Add editable text
to any screen that speaks aloud, or add text graphics
- Project templates
to make cards, booklets, bookmarks, etc.
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Full print control capabilities.
- Kid-friendly file
management and navigation.
- Set up User
Log In and folders for individual users
-
 Select
from a large number of animated
graphics to put in your
drawings -
Electric Mixer with 30 crazy mixer effects
- 2,500 Rubber
Stamps, 1000 stickers
- 200 paper
textures and backgrounds
- 100 sounds you
can add to the pictures
- Fun, easy to use
interface
- Multimedia
slideshow creator (plays student presentations onscreen)
- Spell Check
- Text-to-speech
(anything your student types the computer can read aloud.)
- Paint colorful
images using the tone and pitch of your voice (microphone
required for this feature)
- Photo editing
with electric mixer effects (import digital images of your kids,
skits, etc.)
- Tons of editable
graphics: resize and rotate images
- Import and export
graphics in multiple file formats
- Small kids mode
(simpler for the little guys)
Latest Fourth Edition
improvements:
- Fully XP, Vista, Windows 7 Compatible
(some earlier 4th edition versions were not)
See notes below
- OSX 10.2 - 10.5 compatible!
- File menu bar is out where you
can see it.
- Slightly larger drawing area.
- Higher resolution interface!
Kid Pix
Deluxe 4
(the very latest version compatible with XP, Vista Sp1,
and Windows 7, plus Mac OSX
10.2-10.5 compatible)
Pricing:
$25 for one CD/DVD* copy
$23 each for 2+ copies
$21 each for 5+ copies
Order
it now on our online
order form
(look for it about
halfway down in the Kid Pix and clipart section)
System Requirements :
WINDOWS
XP SP2 or
Vista or Windows 7.
Minimum 800MHz processor or faster, 256 MB RAM or higher recommended,
1 gb hard
disk space for full installation. DVD enabled CD drive required
for installation. See note below for the
workaround if your have an older computer that doesn't have a
DVD enable CD-ROM drive. MAC OS 10.2 and Higher,
G3 processor or faster, 800 x 600 display, thousands of colors, Quicktime 7 or higher.
Note: There have been several "versions" of Edition 4.0. The
early versions of Edition 4 were not guaranteed compatible with
Vista, Windows 7, or OS 10.4 and higher. We carry only the
LATEST updated version of Kid Pix Edition 4.
Version Warning:
Not all Kid Pix "4.0" versions
are alike! Broderbund/RiverDeep has issued
several versions of Edition 4.0. Not all "Fourth Edition"
versions of Kid Pix are
fully Vista. Windows 7, or OSX compatible and some online vendors are
carrying these old 'remainder' versions. We carry ONLY the very
latest version with all the updates and tweaks for the
latest versions of Windows and OSX.
Yes, the latest version of the 4th
Edition does work in Vista and Windows 7.
If you've come
to this page seeking help for getting your older version of the
3rd or 4th Edition to work in Vista and Windows 7...
you'll need to buy the latest version of the 4th Edition (which
we carry). Older versions of the 3rd and 4th Editions have
issues with the installer and speech application (which is
probably what led you to our site via a search!). The latest
version works great. Broderbund does not offer an
upgrade price or patch (they should, but
they don't.) If and when they do, we'll put the link
right here: ____. Until then, the only solution is to buy
their latest version. Please note: Some vendors are not
selling the latest version. This is not a scare tactic to get
you to buy from us. It is only the truth about some vendors who
buy large quantities of older versions, offer them at huge
discounts, and have them in stock for months and years. there
are many different technical versions to the "4th Edition". Some
don't work in Vista or 7. Ours being the latest does.
Version Note for Public
and
Christian Schools:
You may be wondering, "What's
the difference between the 'School Version' available
through academic distributors, and Sunday Software's version?"
The actual program is the SAME.. but there are two
differences: 1) Price! Academic distributors
tend to stick it to the schools. ...and 2) The School
version comes with a packet of handouts and suggestions for academic projects (math, reading, social studies)
you can do with Kid Pix. If you're a school with fewer than
15 computers, save money by getting the software from us,
and then go online and look for the many free Kid Pix
handouts offered through various educational websites.
*Kid Pix 4 requires
a
DVD-enabled CD drive. The latest
version of Kid Pix
now ships on DVD disc rather
than CD. WORKAROUND: If your computers do not have DVD enabled CD drives, you
can copy the Kid Pix CD to a USB flash drive (1gb or more) on a computer that
does
have DVD enabled drives, and then insert the flash drive (aka,
"memory stick") into the computer where you want to install Kid Pix
and run the installation from the memory stick.
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Note:
Kid Pix 4 does not have "Bible content" in
it. Rather, kids CREATE their own scenes using the creative tools
and artwork in the program. And whatever
they type, the program can speak out loud. Yes! ...you can import
photos and graphics into it.
Order
Kid Pix Now on our online
order form.
(look for it about
halfway down in the Kid Pix and clipart section)
Exclusive Helps
from Sunday Software
Kid
Pix Technical Help
Kid
Pix Teaching Tips
Kid
Pix Graphic Importing Help
Tip on working with
Ready-made Project
Template in Kid Pix
(a graphic showing you
where to find them and suggesting some uses)
The Slideshow screen is where kids assemble
their multiple pages/illustrations and play them back like a
slideshow.
There are controls which
allow users/teachers to change how the "slides" present
and read-aloud their text. Click the graphic below
to see the Slide Show controls up close.
Age Range: K - 7th
Even
non-readers can have fun with the text tools. In my lab, we help
young students create words for their pictures, and they love
to hear them read back aloud. The tools are simple enough for
young students, but the program is complex and fun enough even
for older students.
A free set of our Kid Pix Teaching Tips can be viewed and printed in PDF
format here.
Our Tips give numerous classroom tested suggestions for using
KidPix in your C.E. setting. We share many creative Bible-related
projects your students can work on together. And we have
IMPORTANT TIPS for TEACHERS on using the Kid Pix FEATURES.
We have quite a
history with creative writing and drawing tools. That experience
is poured into our Tips. Our Tips for Kid Pix also include
some navigational and special operational tips.
Tech Help for Kid Pix, including
how to delete users from sign-in list available here.
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