Kahootz

BETT Awards 2006 shortlisted. Multimedia programme that enables pupils and teachers to explore; construct and investigate using three dimensional worlds and objects. Students can use Kahootz to write stories; develop ideas; simulate experiments; construct inventions; build animation sequences and develop games and puzzles. Kahootz provides the pupil with unlimited creative potential.

New site licence options now available. Buy a site licence and take advantage of our pupil home licence programme. For a minimal annual subscription; this scheme gives all your students on roll home access.

Purchase 5+ licences and receive free teacher home licences.

Free Basic resource pack with basic video tutorials for orders of 5 or more licences

Free Advanced resource pack with advanced video tutorials for orders of 5 or more licences

On-site training for up to 10 teachers available.

Keywords: Kahootz; Australian Children’s Television Foundation; multimedia; 3D; control; simulate; construct; animation; gaming; modelling; art; design, e-Learning Credits (eLCs), eLearning Credits (eLCs), Curriculum Online (COL), Early Years, Primary Education, Secondary Education, Special Educational Needs

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What our customers have said about Kahootz:

Kahootz is a fantastic animation tool for supporting children’s creativity across the curriculum. Children can select from a range of 3D worlds and explore these at ease. There is a range of characters and objects to choose from for children to include in their Kahootz expressions. Kahootz objects have built in animation and children can add their own animation by using key points. Children enjoy changing the look and feel of worlds and objects by using the swatching tool.

Kahootz is a powerful tool for supporting literacy skills. It can as easily be used for story boarding as it can be for children to produce animated poetry. In Art children can use the notepad and swatching tools to create amazing compositions. In Year 3 it has been an ideal support for teaching work on pattern and dream sequences. Children’s pastel work was scanned in and then placed in a virtual Kahootz art gallery.

When covering a unit of work on light and shadows in Science children used Kahootz to accurately draw shadows for objects and attach these using the grouping tool. Children had to pay particular attention to the position of the light source in their world and which way their characters were facing.

In R.E. children attached a Kahootz camera to a bird and then took it on a fly-through of a world containing 3D text of psalms that children had written previously.

Kahootz expressions can now be exported into QuickTime, allowing for further manipulation and creativity using digital video editing software.
by Paul Turner, Round Diamond School

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