KidPad download

"KidPad a collaborative story authoring tool for children is."
Introduction
A collaborative authoring tool for children KidPad story is. Jazz activated by a zooming canvas provides basic drawing functions. Between the story's narrative structure of a Pattern is defined by creating spatial hyperlinks. Instead, (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) user interface using standard Wimp, KidPad, that can be taken to use local tools used anywhere on the drawing surface and fell. Local tools interface and MID, a Java library developed at the University of Maryland-to-shoulder to shoulder to support cooperation ensures KidPad. More than one USB mouse to the computer checks each mouse KidPad a tool, a few children at the same time can be allowed to create a story together!

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Project
The goal is to make one dependent child KidPad to create a non-linear storytelling to provide a more natural way as a visual expression of opinion-linear stories. Because mice on the same computer can be used with multiple children KidPad supports cooperation between. Because the two children alone, a task that would be possible to make some tools to perform permission KidPad encourage cooperation. For example, a child he must work with another child wants to draw orange. If you mix red and yellow paint pen colors are put together can draw on two mouse there is no orange but the orange crayon.

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Goals
tools that support visual and verbal literacy
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<br for children> Support learning experiences

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now can download free for children under KidPad 1.0 tools provide meaningful storytelling.