Tux Paint

Is anybody using Tux Paint? If so I'd like your thoughts on the program. Are you able to save/export the pictures? If a student did a poem or short story would I be able to embed it on my wiki?

Any other comments would be appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by jcalvert on February 2, 2008 at 6:56pm

Hi Nedra,

I have Tux Paint installed on every computer k-2. It is a lot of fun on a SMARTboard, and is very good for illustrations. Kindergarten students find it easy to use and I have integrated it into preposition lessons. (Put the cat in the house, next to the boy, under the table, etc...) Using text in Tux is awkward, you might want to use another program if that is your goal. Once you type the text it is basically uneditable apart from changing the size and erasing it. Tux Paint does not have an export feature, but you could use a program like "PDF Creator" to make PDFs out of the artwork. You could post the PDFs or export images out of Acrobat. Hope this helps...

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Permalink Reply by Nedra on February 2, 2008 at 7:03pm

Thanks, that is helpful. I should be getting my SMARTboard software this week so good to know it would work well with that.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Kendrick on February 14, 2008 at 7:22pm

Tux Paint's images are stored as PNG files, in a standard, per-user location (see http://www.tuxpaint.org/gallery/submit/ for a quick summary). You can always ask Tux Paint to save them elsewhere, using the graphical configuration tool ("Tux Paint Config.").

This page has some kudos from schools, for those interested: http://www.tuxpaint.org/schools/

Enjoy! :)