M.A. Hochberg’s Technology for Teaching

Sometimes it gets so confusing that it is impossible to say where the problem lies, who owns the problem, and whether it is worth trying to fix it.

Kid Pix is a venerable, yet very useful and current program–but does it run smoothly on Intel Macs? And why do two different companies own the different versions of it? Even worse, why does the “smaller number” version run better and have the most current support?

Version 3x is owned by MacKiev: http://www.mackiev.com/kid_pix.html

Version 4 is owned by Riverdeep/Broderbund:

http://support.broderbund.com/faq_list.asp?id=1294820710

This article sums up the differences in the programs:

http://k12geeks.com/article.php?story=20070821063610961&query=kid%2Bpix
At this point, all I can say is that I would truly miss KidPix and am annoyed at the notion of having to buy an “older” version of the product to get it to run on a very new computer.

No one likes to lose their work and first graders take it especially hard.

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