Abstract
School activities with Paper Application developed Ricoh Japan were conducted at five general schools, six special needs schools, one nursery, and one after-school kids-club; paper aquarium and paper racer were used there. The pictures drawn by students were first scanned and projected onto a large screen with a projector. The motions of the scanned images like fishes and cars were automatically changed after the analyses of their shapes and colors. These two applications were used at students’ work-and-piece festival, school festival, lessons, and breaks at such 13 schools. Paper aquarium was used as an aquarium itself, but more wonderful uses like the background images for the students’ work-and-piece festival and the scenery of the classes’ plays at the school festival were produced. All the students enjoyed Paper Application very much in competition and cooperation with each other through finding a way to look for suitable shapes and colors of their pictures. The students with disabilities could also tackle with both the applications with joy. The students who were weak in drawing the pictures could take part in such activities nicely with a positive attitude and really enjoy the class activities, since in the applications the movements and speeds were not connected with the pictures drawn as being good and bad. At several schools, the activities were conducted at the arts and crafts classes and classes’ plays at the school festival; these deeply stimulated the teachers into courage to use Paper Application at the school.
