Canvastic The fantastic new student-focused graphics/text publishing tool for K-8.
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The fantastic new student-focused graphics/text publishing tool for K-8. Canvastic is the best publishing tool on the market for today's K-8 students and faculty. It offers a wealth of easy to use features that make publishing beautiful projects fast and fun. The tools are designed around industry standards.This means that when you teach your students how to use a specific tool, they can carry that knowledge into professional level publishing tools later. There are great opportunities for integrating content curriculum with technology skills using Canvastic. Canvastic is a tool was created by a technology teacher who had tried everything under the sun with his students for years. The choices were always "toys" or designed for adults. The kids loved the toys but never got enough work done. They tried hard to use the adult tools but were often confused. Canvastic does not have the "toy" features that many applications include. These toys like "the bomb" waste the students' and the teachers' time. Having too many frivolous choices for tools wastes time also. Canvastic has a clear clean interface unlike some adult software choices that makes it very easy to see what tool you have and what the result will be. Also, the interfaces can be customized for the age and ability of the user. There are 4 included interfaces; K, A, B, and C. K is a special very restricted set for Kindergarten.A is for primary students, B is for intermediate students, and C is for advanced students and adults. But these interfaces are just examples that can be customized. For example, an elementary school lab teacher may want to create an interface that only has the paint brush, eraser, text tool and color choices for her Kindergarten students. A middle school lab teacher may want to create interfaces that have only paint tools or only vector tools available for specific teaching scenarios. Students and teachers are authors and publishers. In order to meet the standards our states and school districts require they must often write, graphically show and present information to many different groups and in many different ways. They continually create documents with whatever tools they have at hand.They write stories, sentences, descriptions, and reports. They draw depictions, maps, diagrams and graphs. They present their knowledge with pictures, text and video. Canvastic is a great tool for doing all these things. Any curriculum can be addressed with Canvastic if there is a desire to publish information about it. Here are some key features of "Canvastic":· Text and Graphics Publishing Tool for K-8 · Clear On-Screen Display · Grows With the User · No Toy FeaturesRequirements:· G3 processor, G4 or better recommended · 128 MB of RAM · 150 MB of hard disk space · Latest version of QuickTime installed What's New in This Release: · Audio Tool and inserted sounds feature added. · Graphics tools work faster. · Minor bugs squashed.

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