Ages: 7 - 15
Publisher: Australian Children's Television Foundation

With a range of exciting new features Kahootz 3.0 provides students with even more ways to create amazing stories, inventions, habitats, games, movies and soundtracks.

The key benefits would include:

The introduction of authoring action variables will significantly advance the possibilities of Kahootz as a game-making tool and provide a far greater level of interactivity. This will enhance its potential in the areas of Mathematics, Science and ICT.

The increased cultural diversity of the Kahootz 3D library of Objects will provide LOTE and SOSE teachers with greater opportunities to integrate Kahootz into the curriculum.

Addition of a greater range of historical Objects will allow students to recreate more History related scenarios. A greater range of food and health related Objects will also allow students to create various Health and SOSE related scenarios.

The ability to record a student's voice directly into Kahootz 3.0 and import various language sound files will enhance its use substantially in the LOTE area.

The ability for students in English activities to record their own narrative to match the actions of the Kahootz characters.

The ability for students to create and control 3D natural effects such as rain, snow, water, fire, and electricity will enhance its use in the Science, Environmental and SOSE areas.

Key Educational Outcomes:

• Enhances creativity and encourages problem solving.
• Engages students to demonstrate their learning in 3D.
• Stimulates interactive game-making possibilities.
• Enables students to record, import and create personalised soundtracks.

Kahootz Soundtracks
Create your own multi-track soundtracks that can include imported sounds, your own voice and over 250 new Kahootz sounds and extended atomosphere tracks.

New 3D Objects and Worlds
With over 200 new 3D Objects and 25 new Worlds Kahootz 3.0 provides more cultural diversity, scientific possibilities and subject related possibilities.

Special Effects
Students will be able to create and control 3D natural effects such as fog, snow, water, fire, and electricity.
Animate effects and lighting to show weather conditions, fog, smoke and smog as well as sunrise to sunset.

Game Making Actions
Advanced Action functions will allow for a greater level of interactivity providing more game-making possibilities and a higher level of engagement for older and more gifted students.
Choose from a list of effects such as fire, water, goo, cells.

Integrated Movie Exporting
Greater level of integration of the movie export function to allow students to easily create digital video that could be combined with innovative blue-screen techniques.
Easy pre-set exports for computer, player, web/email or dvd.

Swatch your Face onto a Kahootz Character
In response to your requests, the Kahootz Team have brought you a new character named Blockhead. You can import your photograph and swatch it onto the moving Blockhead character. We have also created animated faces for blockhead.

Animated Giffs
Import animated giffs into your Swatch library (up to 12 frames), this will give the illusion of a movie playing within your Kahootz scene.

New Interface
The interface has been re-designed for Kahootz 3, allowing an easier experience for the user. The same functions are there but functions such as Tools - drop, clone, copy and sizing are now on the top level.

Kahootz 3 movies can be exported in AVI, QT, DVD and Podcast formats