MOOVL

The idea is that children can draw pictures on a Tablet PC or an interactive whiteboard using a digital stylus, making a mouse or graphics hardware unnecessary and keeping the experience as similar as possible to drawing on paper. The Moovl animating environment simulates gravity, collision, and tension so that children’s pictures move as if they were in the real world. The software is intended to allow children in Key Stage 1 to make predictions and hypotheses about how things in the world work, to visualise their ideas, and to test them out in a trial-and-error approach.

An online ‘scrapbook’ function accompanies the drawing environment, where children can save their own simulations and access resources created by other children over the web. Utilising the wireless online connectivity of Tablet PCs, they are able to share simulations with each other from their desks, even working in different locations. The ‘scrapbook’ feature aims to help children to think together about science, and enable them to share and solve problems together.

There is an excellent article here along with a movie and a downloadable pdf here.