Wading through the wonderful world of technology
I am a huge fan of Plasq program Skitch. The versatility of this program has been documented across the web, so I won’t detail it here. It was the usefulness of Skitch that led me to try out Doozla. Doozla’s a vector design program for kids. It includes premade pictures to color in; think of a 21st century coloring book. It also has a great feature to uses the webcam to import a picture (a la a PhotoBooth-type interface). It looks like it would be a great program for the kids to use for school. My only gripe is the proprietary file format that only works with Doozla. I can bring up a print screen and export it to a pdf and then convert to a jpeg, but where’s the fun in that. I’m striving to have the work the students create at school be in the most open / available format possible. For now Doozla, doesn’t pass that test.
Update: I just received an email from Mathieu at Plasq. Doozla is preparing some export options for their next release 1.2.0. It seems they are aiming for some of the same functionality as Skitch, but with a more kid-friendly interface.
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Matt Cronin is middle school educator and technology coordinator at a small middle school in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He enjoys breaking things, tearing them apart, and putting them back together again. In his spare time he also finds joy in making square pegs fit into round holes. His geekiness is only limited by vagaries of his attention span. Chronobits.com will serve to contain his ramblings on education, technology, and whatever else may be lingering in his grey matter. Contact me via Twitter or Email - jmpcronin@gmail.com
Skip Zalneraitis
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I hase never heard of Plasq before. As budgets get tighter in school and at home, I greatly appreciate you efort to extend this information to he Web community.
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