COMIC STRIPS
Word-smart learners love to tell stories. Using comic strips and or a single cartoon character, they can retell a story from literature, recreate a biography or a character, or create a detailed scene.
Comics and cartoons are a good way to get reluctant writers started.
Comic strips/cartoons can be used:
* for journaling
* for creating dialogue
* to summarize reading
* to reinforce vocabulary
* to explore current events
* to introduce self or others
* for exploring language in a joke-form
Word-smart learners love to tell stories. Using comic strips and or a single cartoon character, they can retell a story from literature, recreate a biography or a character, or create a detailed scene.
Comics and cartoons are a good way to get reluctant writers started.
Comic strips/cartoons can be used:
* for journaling
* for creating dialogue
* to summarize reading
* to reinforce vocabulary
* to explore current events
* to introduce self or others
* for exploring language in a joke-form
Click here for 20 ways to use comics in the classroom.
Click here for a short slideshare presentation about using comics in the classroom and here for a longer presentation with different ideas.
Click here for an article on using comics, cartooning and 3D animations for digital storytelling.
WEBSITES FOR CREATING CARTOONS AND COMIC STRIPS
Blabberize
www.blabberize.com Upload a picture, select the "mouth" and record the sound. Blabberize makes the picture appear to "talk." In minutes, learners have made an animated cartoon. |
Make Beliefs Comix
www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Make Beliefs Comix allows learners to create original digital comic strips like the ones in newspapers. The site encourages imagination and self-expression. |
Pixton
www.pixton.com Create original cartoons with fully posable characters and animals! Upload pictures, create freestyle panel layouts, add sound and voice-over. Pixton allows learners to create a "Pixture" (or avatar) and custom characters by editing the various available templates. Note: Not all features are available with the free plan. |
Read Write Think
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html The Comic Creator is an interactive tool that your learners can use to compose their own comic strips. |
Toon Doo
http://www.toondoo.com/ ToonDoo is a comic-creating tool using a variety of characters, backgrounds and "props." |