Comics+in+Education

Comic Life Below is an example of what can be done in ComicLife. This one is found at http []



Comic Life in the Classroom
Comic Life was designed to create comic strips or arrange photos into a scrapbook. Comic Life is an easy and fun program that your student's will like using to create projects. Using the MacBook's built in iSight camera, Comic Life allows the user to take a picture and add it to Comic Life's page template very easily. You can also use Photo Booth to take pictures and apply effects to the pictures. Instructions on how to use Photo Booth are available from the left navigation bar on this site.

Here are some assignment ideas that lend themselves to the use of Comic Life:
 * Timelines (history, events,sequences)
 * Historical figures (history of, life of)
 * Instructions (step by step, details, illustrations, easy to follow)
 * Dialogue punctuation
 * Character analysis
 * Plot analysis
 * Storytelling
 * Pre-Writing Tool
 * Teaching Onomatopoeias
 * ...and on and on


 * __These links will help you understand how Comic Life can be used in the classroom__**:
 * How to Use Comic Life in the Classroom - []
 * Links and Tips - []
 * Comics in the Classroom - []
 * Using Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom - []
 * Comic Life in the Classroom - []
 * Web Resources - []
 * ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator - [|http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/student_material.asp?id=21>]
 * Comic Life Meets the Curriculum wiki - http://comic-life.wikispaces.com/
 * Online comic strip creators
 * Bitstrips - []
 * Makebeliefscomix - []
 * Pixton - Comic Strip Creator - []
 * ToonDoo - []

**Displaying Comic Life Project on your School World Website:**
=== [|Comic Life on your website.docx]=== ==Comic Life Tips: [|Comic Life Tips.docx]==

Comic Life Manuals
[|comiclife_manual.pdf]

[|instructions.pdf]

Rubric
[|rubric.pdf]

[|rubric.doc]

Project Ideas

 * [|Timelines (history, events, sequences)]
 * Historical figures (history of, life of)
 * Instructions (step by step, details, illustrations, easy to follow)
 * Dialogue punctuation
 * Character analysis
 * Biography
 * Plot analysis
 * Storytelling
 * []
 * [|Reading/Writing/Thinking]
 * [|Vocabulary]
 * [|Flow Chart]
 * [|Field Trip]

Links to project examples:

 * Plasq - []
 * Apple Learning Interchange - []
 * History - []
 * Comic Life Examples - []
 * Class Projects - []
 * Modern Foreign Languages Environment - []
 * Mrs. Gray's Class Examples - []
 * Examples - [] (look at the example on how Comic Life was used on eBay!)
 * Science: Periodic Table of Comic Books - []

Lesson plan:

 * [|Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media]