| Presenter: | Stephanie Penniman |
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| Title: | We Love Pixie! |
| Description: | Students enjoy using the Pixie draw program to illustrate and make their ESL, mathematics, and language arts stories come alive. |
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| Education Level: | PK-8 |
| Content Themes: | 21st Century Teaching & Learning |
| Curricular Areas: | Language Arts, Art, Math, Social Studies, Interdisciplinary |
| Story decade: | 1999-2009 |
| Story relates to: | Educational transformation, General Ed Tech |
| Meta Tags: | ESL animation |
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