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Friday, February 26, 2010

MIRCOSOFT PAINT



What is Mircosoft paint?
According to wikipedia, It is a simple graphic program. MS paint has been installed in all versions of Mircosoft windows. It is refered to as MS paint, paint and mircosoft paint. the program opens and saves as windows bitmap.


Benefits of Mircosoft paint:
It allows you to create you own shapes.
Use text in drawing.
You can create your own colours.
Colouring within the lines are easier.
The option to spray paint is there.
Flip and stretching pictures.
You can inverse colours.

Benefits for teachers:
Teachers can intergrate the use of MS paint in the curriculum and also classroom activities.An art class lesson can focus on the use of MS paint. Creating wallpapers and helping to expose children who are not familiar to paint the opporunity to get engage and children who already know about it challenging them.
Crossword puzzles can also be done on MS paint.Again the teacher can use these to futher engage their students in Mircosoft paint program.

I believe that Mircosoft paint can prove successful to a teacher if they understand the features and components of the program. It can also benefit the students because they can use it to create wonderful works of art encouraged by pparents and teachers.