Kid Pix Problems Continue

I worked with Belinda today and we still didn't manage to sort out our ongoing Kid Pix problems exporting slideshows to Quicktime and we actually discovered the additional problem of being unable to export pictures to jpeg format. While Googling problems exporting Kid Pix to Quicktime one of the hits was a link to my own post on this blog!

The problem was temporarily solved by taking screenshots of the pictures using Screenshot Studio which can be downloaded at http://screenshot-program.com/ and is a great free tool for PC users. Other options are possible for different prices but the free version works really well and is almost as good as the Mac alternative, or so I have been told!

And then importing into Photostory and then re-recording all the audio. Overall not the easiest way to share our work on a blog. Hopefully our Technician will be able to solve these problems perhaps re-installing the software on each individual PC might be the only option.

Kid Pix Problems

I have figured out, with a little help from my friend Belinda, how to address the problem I've been having with recording audio onto slides in Kid Pix. What you can do is to draw your picture then copy it several times calling it e.g leaf, leaf1, leaf2, leaf3 etc then record one sentence on each slide. Pay attention to the audio indicator as you are recording to keep track of how much time you have left before reaching the maximum size allowed per slide. Then import the slides one after the other without transitions and it will look like one slide but with longer audio. I am going to try this out with the Digikidz next week when I am working in classes. I still haven't solved my problem exporting slideshows to Quicktime but am hoping that if I send the file to Belinda and it works that will mean it's a SPS network error and Quicktime needs to be re-installed to fix the problem. I would really like to get some of the children's fabulous work onto the Digikidz blog and into my wikispace as evidence for my Action Research project.