Canvastic 2.1.0
Canvastic is a great student-focused graphics/text publishing application for K-8.
Canvastic is a great student-focused graphics/text publishing application for K-8. It features easy to understand tools and options with a clear, clean interface. There are no "toy" features that waste the students' time.
Packed with over 40 new user-requested features, refinements, and fixes, Canvastic v2.1 is even more flexible, powerful, and easy to use. Teachers have expanded options to customize the application to meet students' needs.
Text and Graphics Publishing Tool for K-8
Clear On-Screen Display
Grows With the User
No Toy Features
Canvastic features
Combined Text and Graphics: Students can use Canvastic to create graphic, text, and presentation documents. Graphic documents can include editable text. And text documents can include graphics. Combine them to create striking class presentations. Integrating curriculum with text and graphics is a natural for our students. When they draw what they know and write about what they have created, their projects are better and more complete. It provides full desktop publishing for K-8 users.
A Clear On-Screen Display: Canvastic's interface is pleasant easy to use. It is clear and uncluttered. The tool icons are based on industry standards and the screen is not messy nor is it trying to be "colorful". They add the color to the Canvastic screen! The students love using Canvastic because they know how to use it very quickly. Time isn't wasted in the classroom trying to explain "cute" icons.
It Grows With the User: We deliver some example preference sets with the product. But you are welcome to combine tools, color choices, palette positions, default tools, default fonts, and palette visibility in any way you choose. Create a separate set for each grade level or a special sets for certain activities. You control the available options to keep kids on task and increase their chances for success. Younger students can taught the tools one at a time. Older students can utilize more complex choices.
No Toys: Canvastic's interface is all business. There are no toy features to waste the students' time. For example, there is no fun way to destroy your document. There are no bombs, fire hoses or dancing singing clip art. Younger students are engrossed so quickly they don't notice that they are having fun creating rather than playing. The older students appreciate using a tool that wasn't designed to appeal to babies but is still easy enough for them to use well. We don't include excessive options that waste the students' time either. For example, when creating a slide show the user is given the option of choosing from four music loops, not thousands.
Unlimited Undo: Kids should be encouraged to explore options when they are creating. They shouldn't be restricted to only undoing their most recent action. With virtually unlimited undo and redo options, students can move freely backwards and forwards through all of the steps they took to create their document.
Preview Palette: The Preview palette displays a shape exactly as it will be drawn on the canvas, given the current tool, color, and option selections. Students will know what to expect before they click the mouse in the canvas.
Browser Palette: The Browser palette displays a set of thumbnail images, graphically representing each of the open Canvastic documents. Simply click on a thumbnail image to bring that document to the front.
Painting, Drawing, and Background Layers: The graphically advanced may refer to creation tools as bitmap or vector based. The are sometimes called paint and draw. Painting tools create shapes and pictures that are made of small colored dots named 'pixels'. Each dot can be colored (or erased) individually. Drawing tools create shapes (like rectangles, circles, and text) that can be selected, moved, stretched, and modified as a shape rather than a group of dots. Canvastic provides both painting and drawing tools and keeps the resulting graphics on separate layers in your documents. Combine those layers with an independent background layer for displaying a color or picture and you've got a strong foundation on which to build some terrific documents.
Quicktime Movie Slideshows: Combine multiple Canvastic documents into an attractive Quicktime slideshow. You control the timing between slides and the transition effects between them. The resulting slideshow can be sent via email or CD and played on any computer (Macintosh or Windows) with the free Apple Quicktime application installed.
Export to Common Formats: When you save you create a Canvastic document but there are also choice for exporting to common graphics file formas like jpg and png. So if you want to include work done with Canvastic in another program it is just an easy save.
Word Processing Tool: Now there is a tool which allows more control over the text that students add to their documents. Text entered into the new word processing objects can be independently formatted with common text choices such as color, font and style. The Text tool is still available for primary students and for use in labeling, titling or for short sections.
Multiple Folders in Clip Art: Now you can organize clip art into folders for easy organization. Clip art should still be stored in the Art folder within the Canvastic folder. Now the included images are organized into three folders; Basic Clip Art, Drawing Aids, and Math. To add your graphics to the program just add folders containing the art to the Art folder and restart Canvastic.
Template Files: Canvastic documents that are opened from the new Templates folder will open as new, untitled documents. There are many templates included with Canvastic but to add your own, just prepare the template and save or copy it into the Templates folder. There are nine full book publishing sets included for both portrait and landscape orientation.
Document Palette: With a click on the new Document palette you can create new, open, save and print. This palette may be a good choice for younger students' preference sets.
Network Location of Preference Sets: Your preference sets can now be stored on a network server rather than in the Preferences folder within the Canvastic folder. In an intelligent fashion, if the network server is not available, the program will look in the original local Preferences folder. This allows for immediate changes to the working environment for your students at any work station.
Slide Shows and Movies: You can now create live full screen presentations with a few clicks. Sound tracks are now supported on Slide Shows. Four default choices are included; Jazz, Rock, Country, and Pastoral. Exporting to QuickTime movies is still supported as well.
Teacher Control: Teachers now have a keyboard shortcut for quickly and temporarily "unlocking" palettes without editing the preference set. Now if you need to make a quick adjustment for a particular student you can do so quickly. Option Control click for Mac and Ctrl Alt click for Windows.
New Preference Settings: There are new settings for enabling/disabling the color picker, linking colors, and enabling/disabling the contextual menu.
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