KidPad

KidPad is a collaborative story authoring tool for children. It provides basic drawing functionality on a zooming canvas enabled by Jazz.

The narrative structure of a story is defined by creating spatial hyperlinks between objects on the canvas. Instead of using a standard WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) user interface. KidPad uses local tools that can be picked up, used and dropped anywhere on the drawing surface.

One goal of KidPad is to enable children to create non-linear stories to express their thoughts visually, in a more natural way than linear storytelling allows.

Certain tools in KidPad encourage collaboration because they enable two children to perform a task that they would be unable to perform alone.

KidPad also provides expressive storytelling tools for young children .